Posted on 10/29/2017 4:58:46 PM PDT by simpson96
True story.
Well, no. But if someone shoots you dead, it doesn’t much matter who is found to be at fault. When you’re dead, you’re dead. I certainly don’t go into my woods during the hunting season unless I absolutely have to, and in that case I wear a lot of orange.
That lack of respect for private property rights goes a long way towards explaining their allegedly Republican senator.
I live in Maine and I heard this story on the local news yesterday evening.
I assumed the woman was hunting, too...apparently this was not the case.
The reporter on the news said is was the first hunting fatality in Maine since 2012.
My late father lived in Michigan when he was in his teens and twenties. He used to go deer hunting with my grandfather.
My dad told me that one year....many decades ago....that 17 guys were killed the first day of the hunting season. No one wore blaze orange back then, but that is a lot of fatalities, and in a single day!
You are situationally aware. I doubt that poor woman even knew it was deer season. An armed trespasser who shoots and kills an unarmed person on their own property in broad daylight should have long odds for acquittal in court, IMHO.
Few years ago we invited a game warden and his young sons to go hunting with us on the opening day of pheasant season.
Was fun watching those trespassers on our land get big fat court summons for criminal trespass.
She wasn’t a visitor, it was her land they were trespassing on.
I wonder if that pair had the decency to figure out where the property lines were and asked the owners if they could use their land to hunt during the season. They might have told the landowner to wear bright orange in the coming weeks, even if told ‘no’, because other hunters might not respect their property. And the law being the law in Maine.
That would have been a conscientious, neighborly thing for a responsible hunter to do. Maybe they did and they can rest easier knowing it really was her fault for not having the sense to wear bright orange on the first day of deer season in Maine.
I got lost once. Out west. Pulled the bolt and hopped a fence to get back to a road. Rancher had been watching me for a bit and figured out I had gone through a section with a downed fence, and was going to get me if I didn’t turn around. When he saw me strip the bolt, he knew I was lost and drove out to pick me up.
Never been lost in the Prairie before. He said a lot of guys jump the property to get to better ground. I did come back and help them fix the blasted fence
The woman wearing the white mittens had moved to Maine from Iowa with her husband and young child. The hunter was a produce manager from an area supermarket. He mistook her white mittens for the “flag” of a deer....the white underside of the tail.
It was more than a few years ago...it was in 1989.
The hunter was tried for manslaughter. I’m not sure what the outcome was, but it a huge news story here in Maine. I had just moved here from southern California at the time.
The man and his child moved back to Iowa after his wife’s death.
All deer hunters take a hunter’s safety course to try and prevent this sort of thing.
That is actually a brilliant idea to keep future trespassers off the property...I’m going to have to suggest that to my dad! Thanks for the story!
“My God! What totally incompetent journalism... “
Actually, if hunters get used to ‘orange’ then they get conditioned to thinking “NOT ORANGE = GAME”.
Every law has it’s unintended consequences.
Indeed. “I wasn’t required to wear orange” makes lousy epitaph for one’s tombstone. Furthermore, she was digging for rocks and gems, her famuly said. So she was likely down on all fours. Not excusing the hunter, but this needs to be a lesson to us all in similar circumstances.
Was he feeling threatened by her?
“That lack of respect for private property rights goes a long way towards explaining their allegedly Republican senator.”
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Not so at all. It’s just the tradition here.
The dems always run an obscure moonbat state senator who has no chance of defeating a well-known incumbent. Susan Collins looks good in comparison (even though she isn’t) when compared to the far-left dem moonbat. That’s how she gets re-elected.
I grew up on Long Island, and my dad bought a huge tract of land here in Maine in the 1960’s when the price of land was cheap. I don’t live on the land....there are no structures on it. It’s not posted. Some people have asked permission to hunt on it; other people who live nearby just hunt without asking.
Most land in Maine is privately owned. It’s just the tradition here. People who don’t want hunters on their woodlands typically post their land with “Posted” and/or “No hunting” signs.
Exactly.
‘Wrentzel wasn’t wearing blaze orange for safety.’
We have to wear blaze orange on our own property?
“I remembering reading a couple years ago about a Maine woman hanging clothes on her line. She was wearing white mittens and a hunter shot her. He claimed he thought she was a deer.”
I too remember that incident. The “hunter” had to be a total jerk, as the woman’s house was right behind her. So the hunter shot where a house was near his line of fire. Jeeze!
Have hunted all my life.
You do not pull the trigger unless you clearly identify your target and clearly identify your backstop.
The shooter belongs in prison. Period.
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