Posted on 11/07/2009 10:04:40 AM PST by Graybeard58
GOSHEN — Score one for the deer.
It looks like they'll have their choice of red or white after a local farmer who shot a deer to keep it from eating his grape vines last summer was ordered to put away his guns.
Manuel Miranda was sentenced Friday in Litchfield's Bantam Court to probation and ordered not to use a firearm for two years.
Miranda said he believed he was lawfully protecting his crop. Fed up with hungry deer eating his grape vines, the vineyard owner grabbed his shotgun July 23 and fired a charge of buckshot, a shell containing pellets that look like large BBs. One or more of the 11 pellets in the shell he fired killed the deer. A stray pellet went through an open window and lodged in the headboard of Reggi and Bruce Gerber's son's bedroom at Woodridge Lake.
State police who answered the Gerbers' complaint found Miranda, who admitted that he shot the deer. He was charged with negligent hunting, violation of hunting regulations and reckless endangerment.
Miranda Vineyards is adjacent to Woodridge Lake, a planned community of homes built on small lots, a popular retreat for many part-time residents from urban areas.
In what Miranda's defense attorney Al Mencuccini described as a clash of cultures and Judge Cara F. Eschuk described as a clash of land uses, the two sides argued their cases for nearly an hour Friday during a hearing on whether to grant Miranda accelerated rehabilitation, a special form of probation available to first-time offenders.
Miranda was an idiot. Always know what’s behind your target. When killing deer out of season or in an area too confined for a firearm it’s better to use a bow.
He’s lucky he got such a light sentence and that the boy hadn’t been shot.
Liquid Fence works and causes less trouble.
Yankees + guns = something stupid is going to happen.
Yankee from NJ moved in close to me. Thinks that because he’s got a couple of acres and now lives in the South that he can just walk out in his backyard and start spraying bullets all over the place. I’ve got horses and the neighbor on the other side of him has horses but that doesn’t seem to matter to him. Idiot.......
I hate to say it but he probably moved out of Jersey to get away from the kind of government he voted in. Chances are he will continue to vote that way.
Is it just me, or is this level of firearm ignorance amazing? Even if you've never owned, fired, or even seen a real shotgun, isn't it rather common knowledge that shotguns fire shot?
Cannons fire cannon balls, bows fire arrows, bb guns fire bbs, and shotguns fire shot.
Farmer gets probation for shooting deer and neighbor’s bed
need I say more?
How do I tell if I am in a 1 mattress county?
I’m still trying to figure out how to field-dress the thing.
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