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

Thu Nov 29 23:09:18 EST 2007

As the 'come-heres' slowly outnumber the 'born-heres'
& the 'been heres' this practice will end...

Ty this one on for size...what about those folks who
would like to take an extended Bay cruise?

http://www.waterwayguide.com/resources.php

elle

--- john Belanger <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> i do trout fishing with a fly rod. we have special
> no keep water where you can take on trophy size fish
> but must release them back into the water. hunting
> has no regulations except a head count and seasonal
> restrictions. if each dog was required to have an
> implanted transmitter with its id in it and it was
> detected running deer the owner would be fined. just
> like an easypass for dogs. but you forget that being
> a redneck right now is very fashionable. lots of
> money in the sport. look at how much money cabelas
> and bass pro make. big bucks. (sic).and the states
> are making lots of money too.
> 
> elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:  In this area
> dogs are permitted to run deer. 
> 
> The hunters loose the dogs at night, where they run
> through the fields and forested areas (and through
> posted land, as they are not 'hunting'), exhausting
> the deer, which are then easily picked off in the
> morning by the hunters sitting on the edge of the
> fields in their plush trucks. 
> 
> The dogs wear transmitters so the hunters can track
> them. The hunters abandon any dogs that don't
> 'produce' or wander out of range. There is an
> abandoned hunting dog up the road we are trying to
> capture as he is slowly starving...the dog warden
> won't bother if he is not vicious....looks like we
> may
> h ave to invent some teeth to get this pup rescued.
> 
> Through the sumer the hunters 'train' their dogs by
> letting them run at night; many nights in this area
> we
> are awakened by the howling & baying right outside
> our
> homes as the dogs barrel through our properties.
> 
> We see many trucks from MD as well as VA during dog
> season.
> 
> 
> elle
> 
> 
> --- Robert Skinner wrote:
> 
> > 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" 
> > > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> > 
> > > 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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