[Rhodes22-list] This is cause of America's problems...

[Robert Skinner]

Good folks,

When I lived in upstate PA, I hung a sign at my driveway 
entrance - "Rifle Range" - during hunting seasons and set 
man targets here and there on the property.  Naturally, 
the local constabulary - sheriff, police, and game warden - 
were very curious, and stopped in to visit.  

I told them it was a sham to keep hunters away from my 
house, and would they please talk up how dangerous it was, 
etc.  They cooperated nicely, and hunters kept away from 
"that nut up on the hill"...

I only shot a few holes in the targets now and then to 
preserve the illusion - generally when some jerk was 
walking past my "Rifle Range" sign on the driveway with
a weapon on his arm.  Target, of course, was nowhere near
him.

/Robert

Rob Lowe wrote:
> 
> Mary Lou,
> I can relate.  We keep the hunting schedule nearby too.  Our house is
> surrounded by woods where hunters frequent.  We've got a yellow/brown dog
> that could pass for a deer to those "shoot at what moves" type hunters.  She
> hates it when we keep her fenced in during the season. - rob
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] This is cause of America's problems...
> 
> > Now Ed, I think you are overstating things in your subject line. She
> > is entitled to her opinion (just as you are entitled to make fun of
> > her earnest plea for those "innocent animals of the forest"). I'm
> > sure a few folks at the Greenville News got a chuckle when they printed
> it.
> >
> > I used to have to contend with a woman who made a formal complaint
> > every 2 years or so about the fact that we (the public library)
> > carried "Pennsylvania Game News", the official publication of the PA
> > Game Commission. "Propaganda for blood lust" I believe she called it
> > in one complaint. Glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.
> >
> > Down here in MD we keep the news item about hunting seasons on the
> > refrigerator door so we know what they are shooting at. We note that
> > the goose season closes for the shorter deer season and then reopens,
> > probably so the deer hunters in blaze orange don't pick off the goose
> > hunters in camo. A local marina had to remove their moorings
> > permanently because they interfered with the duck hunting rights of
> > the guy that owned the adjacent shoreline. The marina made out ok
> > because they got a quick permit to extend their docks and added about
> > 30 or 40 slips.
> >
> > Mary Lou
> >
> >
> > At 02:00 PM 11/29/2007, you wrote:
> >
> > >and just think, this lady votes.  See attachment from Greenville News.
> > >
> > >http://www.nabble.com/file/p14032703/bears.jpg bears.jpg
> > >
> > >Ed K
> > >Greenville, SC, USA
> > >
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Robert Skinner  "Squirrel Haven" 
Gorham, Maine         04038-1331
s/v "Little Dipper" & "Edith P."