Houston tycoon finds himself in the cross hairs

Houston Chronicle -NYTimes of the South ^ | July 19, 2007, 6:34AM | TOM FOWLER

[TexasCajun]

Dan Duncan could face felony charges after hunting in Russia from a helicopter

[TexasCajun]

"What the hell is the U.S.' interest in bringing felony charges here for hunting on Russian soil, where not one single person has complained?" Hardin said

[saganite]

I’ll tell you why they’re interested. He’s a big name target some enterprisisng prosecuter can make a big name on.

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh, he just “a$$umed”...

[org.whodat]

Duncan shot and killed a moose and a sheep while riding in a helicopter,,

Well I have a complaint, Dan Duncan you are a POS. If you cannot pursue the game on the ground don't kill the game and call yourself a hunter.

[Jaysun]

Hardin said prosecutors from Washington, D.C., may use the Lacey Act, a 107-year-old law designed to prevent the interstate and international trafficking of rare plants and animals, to bring felony criminal charges against Duncan. If found guilty he could face jail time, Hardin said.

Bringing home a sheep and a moose bust hardly seems like "interstate and international trafficking of rare plants and animals".

[jonascord]

This isn't hunting, it's killing. Why doesn't this #$$hole just get a gross of baby bunnies and three feet of piano wire? It would be a lot cheaper...

Exporting this capitalist to spend a few years in a Russian slammer would be poetic.

[Orange1998]

From a helicopter? Firing from a helicopter is not hunting. I would have respect for him if he gave the animal some defense.

[org.whodat]

The Safari Club International Record Book, which lists the biggest animals ever legally shot, has 550 entries for him.

How many of these were shot illegally?

[taxed2death]

Silly me. I always thought hunting implied some small degree of skill in the art of stalking etc...

Why doesn’t this turd just order up a predator drone with a hellfire and sit his lazy ass down in Houston and blow up a large mammal with the push of a button. Could a “hunter” get any more lazy?

Sheeeeeeeeeeesh.

[dfwgator]

Reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where the hunter kills a bear while it was drinking from a lake. But the trophy he made from the bear showed it in attack position.

[TexasCajun]

The Safari Club International Record Book, which lists the biggest animals ever legally shot, has 550 entries for him.

I'm a hunter myself, but for the life of me I don't get shooting lions, elephants, giraffes, water-buffalos, finding and shooting game from a helicopter.

...not very sportsman like.

[Alter Kaker]

Apropos of nothing, Dan Duncan is one of the top fundraisers nationally for RINOs, raising vast sums for McCain, Rudy and Liddy Dole, as well as a few Democrats.

[battlegearboat]

The only "hunting from a helicopter" I've ever heard of was from the "Slicks" in Vietnam.

They were very good hunters.

[Red Badger]

I would imagine shooting from a helo is much harder than sitting still on the ground........

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Incredibly bad form.

[SamuraiScot]

During the trip, Duncan shot and killed a moose and a sheep while riding in a helicopter

Jeez, who the heck cares? Something doesn't smell right here.

[TexasCajun]

Killing elephants, giraffes, lions & tigers is not what I call sport!

Let him kill all the white-tails & hogs he wants here in Texas. (legally)

[jonascord]

With helicopter “hunting”, you spot an animal on open ground, chase it with the helicopter until it’s too exhausted to move, and shoot it from 30 feet away. This slimy sack of feces ought to have his name and trophies expunged from Boone and Crockett and the Safari Club books.

[jonascord]

In Da’Nam, the hunted weren’t shy about shooting back...