<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for A little bit country, a little bit pathetic and lazy]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:47:25 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/1 no-country-of-mine music

I never heard of Troy Lee Gentry, and hope I never hear of him again.

The Reuters article does not quite flesh out for us "using a bow and arrow to kill the animal," does it.  That is a bit of editorial concision.

And what a horribly steep fine poor Troy has to pay.

It amounts to the state's announcing, "Come one, come all, put up this much money and you too can kill a young bear in its pen."

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I never heard of Troy Lee Gentry, and hope I never hear of him again.

The Reuters article does not quite flesh out for us "using a bow and arrow to kill the animal," does it.  That is a bit of editorial concision.

And what a horribly steep fine poor Troy has to pay.

It amounts to the state's announcing, "Come one, come all, put up this much money and you too can kill a young bear in its pen."

]]> Comment #2 by bookerly http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:50:50 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/2 News of the Weird


    Dear CanisCandida,

          I never heard of him either, but it is an amazing story.  I mean, why a bow and arrow?  Will the NRA complain?  Does he have a problem and is not allowed to carry a gun?

          Why not a grenade, or a battlefield nuke?

          He could have smothered it if he want to preserve the pelt.  Tied it up, and climbed on top and well....

          There were so many options available to him.  I wonder if he was having a robin hood fantasy day?

          There are truly some things in life that make imagination irrelevant!

patrick (who likes the arrows that stick to walls, yeah that kind)

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    Dear CanisCandida,

          I never heard of him either, but it is an amazing story.  I mean, why a bow and arrow?  Will the NRA complain?  Does he have a problem and is not allowed to carry a gun?

          Why not a grenade, or a battlefield nuke?

          He could have smothered it if he want to preserve the pelt.  Tied it up, and climbed on top and well....

          There were so many options available to him.  I wonder if he was having a robin hood fantasy day?

          There are truly some things in life that make imagination irrelevant!

patrick (who likes the arrows that stick to walls, yeah that kind)

]]> Comment #3 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:15:39 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/3 I once watched a documentary

of Ted Nugent hunting a rinocerous with a bow. He paid a fortune for the opportunity and brought along his own film crew. He managed to stick a few arrows in it. They looked insignificant. The rhino just walked off. A few days later the game wardens had to shoot it with a rifle so it wouldn't die of massive infection. I am sure the head is mounted in his den.

"Yes, yes, that is a rhino I was allowed to stick two arrows in before the game warden I bribed put it out of its misery with a high-powered rifle."

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> I once watched a documentary

of Ted Nugent hunting a rinocerous with a bow. He paid a fortune for the opportunity and brought along his own film crew. He managed to stick a few arrows in it. They looked insignificant. The rhino just walked off. A few days later the game wardens had to shoot it with a rifle so it wouldn't die of massive infection. I am sure the head is mounted in his den.

"Yes, yes, that is a rhino I was allowed to stick two arrows in before the game warden I bribed put it out of its misery with a high-powered rifle."

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> Comment #4 by bookerly http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:39:45 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-little-bit-country-a-little-bit-pathetic-and-lazy/4 Panda Hunting


   Interestingly, when the Giant Panda came to the attention of Westerners (in the 1920's, I believe), their first response was to organize hunting expeditions.  Since Pandas basically don't move a lot during much of the day, hunting them is about as hard as hunting a barn door.

   It was apparently quite popular at one time, and contributed to their decline.

patrick

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   Interestingly, when the Giant Panda came to the attention of Westerners (in the 1920's, I believe), their first response was to organize hunting expeditions.  Since Pandas basically don't move a lot during much of the day, hunting them is about as hard as hunting a barn door.

   It was apparently quite popular at one time, and contributed to their decline.

patrick

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