Little-Acorn
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Wild hogs and coyotes are regarded as pests on large ranches, and are regularly hunted by owners to reduce the damage they do to livestock, vegetation, etc.
Apparently these enviro-airbrains would be happier if the hunter gave the wild animals a sporting chance to kill him at the same time. Using a helicopter just isn't fair!
Not that there is no concern for the well-being of the man's ranch, danger to other animals and even the man's family posed by the wild hogs and coyotes, etc.
Can these people get any more nutty?
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Major-leaguer ripped for hunting from air
Environmentalists demand team order player to stop shooting from helicopter
Posted: March 09, 2008
4:48 pm Eastern
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Major League Baseball pitcher is catching heat from an environmental group because of his off-season hunting of wild hogs and coyotes via helicopter.
Logan Kensing, a reliever for the Florida Marlins, is targeted by the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition, according to the Palm Beach Post.
"We want the Marlins to make him agree to stop," the group's co-chair, attorney Barry Silver, told the paper.
Silver sent a strongly worded letter yesterday to team owner Jeffrey Loria.
"They have 10 days from Monday to reprimand the player for behavior that isn't one of a role model," he told the Post. "If they don't, we will be persistent. We'll infiltrate the fans and pull out signs. We'll picket. If we're willing to have 27 people arrested, it's obvious we're committed."
In a Feb. 21 interview with the Post, Kensing said he wasn't bothered by the protest: "They can come at me if they want to."
The native Texan, 25, explained hunting down the hogs is part of maintaining his family's ranch.
"We make money off our land. Those pigs destroy everything," he said. "Each litter, which happens three times a year, is gonna have 12 pigs, and 60 percent are females."
Kensing described his method.
"The pilot's pretty good. He gets right next to them. We spot them, he flies in sideways, glides and we shoot them."
He even provided video of one of his chopper excursions as he scoped for the animals.
An outraged Dan Liftman, a green-minded aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, took the clipping to the monthly meeting of Silver's crew.
"I thought it was pretty sick," said Liftman, an aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. "That's his fun? Shooting animals from a helicopter? I think that's a little crazy."
Said Silver: "When killing becomes mechanized, it's all too easy. Scientific literature makes it clear that when someone engages in violence against animals, that person is more likely to commit violence against people."
Kensing points out he's not committing any crime, adding he and his teammates once rescued an injured baby raccoon on a Florida golf course, nursing it for four days before turning it over to a shelter.
Apparently these enviro-airbrains would be happier if the hunter gave the wild animals a sporting chance to kill him at the same time. Using a helicopter just isn't fair!
Not that there is no concern for the well-being of the man's ranch, danger to other animals and even the man's family posed by the wild hogs and coyotes, etc.
Can these people get any more nutty?
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58459
Major-leaguer ripped for hunting from air
Environmentalists demand team order player to stop shooting from helicopter
Posted: March 09, 2008
4:48 pm Eastern
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Major League Baseball pitcher is catching heat from an environmental group because of his off-season hunting of wild hogs and coyotes via helicopter.
Logan Kensing, a reliever for the Florida Marlins, is targeted by the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition, according to the Palm Beach Post.
"We want the Marlins to make him agree to stop," the group's co-chair, attorney Barry Silver, told the paper.
Silver sent a strongly worded letter yesterday to team owner Jeffrey Loria.
"They have 10 days from Monday to reprimand the player for behavior that isn't one of a role model," he told the Post. "If they don't, we will be persistent. We'll infiltrate the fans and pull out signs. We'll picket. If we're willing to have 27 people arrested, it's obvious we're committed."
In a Feb. 21 interview with the Post, Kensing said he wasn't bothered by the protest: "They can come at me if they want to."
The native Texan, 25, explained hunting down the hogs is part of maintaining his family's ranch.
"We make money off our land. Those pigs destroy everything," he said. "Each litter, which happens three times a year, is gonna have 12 pigs, and 60 percent are females."
Kensing described his method.
"The pilot's pretty good. He gets right next to them. We spot them, he flies in sideways, glides and we shoot them."
He even provided video of one of his chopper excursions as he scoped for the animals.
An outraged Dan Liftman, a green-minded aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, took the clipping to the monthly meeting of Silver's crew.
"I thought it was pretty sick," said Liftman, an aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. "That's his fun? Shooting animals from a helicopter? I think that's a little crazy."
Said Silver: "When killing becomes mechanized, it's all too easy. Scientific literature makes it clear that when someone engages in violence against animals, that person is more likely to commit violence against people."
Kensing points out he's not committing any crime, adding he and his teammates once rescued an injured baby raccoon on a Florida golf course, nursing it for four days before turning it over to a shelter.
