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

Fri Nov 30 00:58:00 EST 2007

Thanks for further validating my decision to 
get out of Maryland.  Looks like the ticks 
will kill that moose (boating in Maryland).

/Robert
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elle wrote:
> 
> 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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