Posted on 10/09/2009 9:12:03 PM PDT by Copernicus
A good example of just how treacherous modern hunting has become.
Regulation trumps common sense and everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
Two fathers and their sons went hunting in Brinnon on Saturday, but after legally downing an elk with a muzzleloading rifle, they found themselves staring down the barrels of guns pointed at them by uniformed officers of the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe.
"The whole thing was handled way wrong," said Don Phipps, who shot the elk. "I've never had anyone pull a gun on me in my whole life. I didn't understand it."
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Best regards to all,
Game officers everywhere have a tendency to abuse their authority, IMHO.
I have a feeling in this case the operative word might be “tribe” rather than “game warden”.
They will have a hard time eating that elk, when it keeps bringing back bad memories of being held at gunpoint.
seems to me they would have a claim of false imprisonment against these injuns
Tribal or not, what authority do they have on private property?
‘Regulation trumps common sense and everyone is guilty until proven innocent.’
Actually, that’s a pretty good summary of what’s wrong with law enforcement nation-wide. We even have SWAT teams attacking the elderly for growing orchids. America is FUBAR and unrecognizable to someone, such as I, born sixty years ago.
Law enforcement has gone off the reservation.
This crap will not stop until the perps are held personally responsible and their qualified immunity stripped from them. The only alternative is armed resistance.
“The hunting party had received permission from the property owner, Boling said, and he’d been hunting there for years.”
Bingo. I'm sick of officials not really caring about lawsuits from the citizry because 'the insurance will cover it,' thus putting any awards to taxpayers back onto the taxpayers' backs (via increased premium costs) while the perps are off the hook.
Best regards,
Removing personal responsibility often leads to such problems. :-(
A guy a knew got caught hunting on tribal land. He'd arrowed a doe, but because the tribal police were looking for elk hunters and apparently didn't know what an elk looked like, they swore up and down that he's shot an elk.
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