Internet Hunting Banned in California

TheSync writes "California has banned Internet hunting. Emergency regulations will be put in place by the California Fish and Game Commission, and legislation (SB 1028) is in the works. West Virginia is considering legislation against it as well. Hunters consider hunting by robot and mouse click 'a digrace to the sport,' whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine."

You're violating my rights!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's my God given right as an American to be able to sit at home in my underwear and kill shit.

Damnit!

[Stonent1]

I had just wrote up an shell script to do all my hunting for me, and now this!

My rights online

[AthenianGadfly]

I agree, this is integral "Your Rights Online." I protest this grave infringement against my inherent right as a human to operate a deadly weapon using some Flash game on my desktop.

One-Click Hunting

[rice_burners_suck]

What's wrong with One-Click Hunting? Did Amazon patent this or something? I think it's a good idea. Your dinner comes walking by... click, and it's ready for pickup. This is significantly better than having to duck behind some bushes, trying to be all quiet, and then shooting your dinner. What if a fellow hunter is on the other side and you get shot? This way, nobody has to be present when bullets get fired... nobody, that is, except your dinner. :-)

Fighting back

[rkww]

Obviously the problem is the poor critters have no way to fight back - now, if we could electrify a few keyboards ....

oh, the frags

[Valcoramizer]

dang, I was up to 60

Re:PETA approved

[shuz]

*sigh* PETA is just too extreme. And red meat is just too tasty.

-It' ok to eat fish because fish don't have any feelings. -KC

Re:PETA approved

[ashmedai]

Does this mean no more playing punch the monkey?

Hicks

[br4inst0rm]

Damn those inbred internet hicks [aol.com]... Damn them to hell [microsoft.com].

Floridian Spammers

[Linker3000]

Why not tie the system into a selection of security cameras in Florida shopping malls and make it law there that anyone wishing to partake in mass emailing has to wear a bright coloured jacket with a target printed on the back in public - then we could solve two problems in one go!?

Maybe I get your spam, maybe I don't - maybe you die, maybe you don't; it seems like a fair trade-off.

Re:Innocent? I think not.

[Anonymous Coward]

not to mention the damage reindeer fo to grandma every year..

damned jolly old elves.

Re:Wait... Logic Check...

[daft_one]

My bow and I would like you to come within 100 yards and say that ;-)

About time...

[__aaclcg7560]

It's about time that they outlawed Deer Hunter [atari.com]. That game ruined my life! Now I'll have time to watch "The Dukes Of Hazard" DVDs.

Re:PETA approved

[anagama]

I always wanted to have a leather jacket painted on the back. A big roast turkey with P E T A on the top arc. At the bottom it would read "People for the Epicurian Treatment of Animals".

Re:Hunting on foot much safer

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, here is the diagram:

Lawyers -> Guns -> Compound Bow -> Bow -> Spear -> Knife -> Rock -> Stick -> Bare Hands
Least Noble Most Noble

trolling

[jotux]

whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine.

yeah! outlaw all hunting, even by other animals. How could anyone or anything ever hunt and kill an innocent dear, or bunny! We should all become communist, vegan, and move into the wilderness.


Why can't we moderate the index page?

Re:Can't control offshore shooting

[Anonymous Coward]

Instead you'd pay your $50 or whatever and the whole shooting would be mocked up, probably from Discovery channel footage.

I bet that Christmas lights guy is behind this...

Re:Wait... Logic Check...

[GoofyBoy]

I think the orginal poster is talking about tearing the heart from a 9 foot tall bear with your bare hands then holding it over your head on top of a hill shouting in sheer barbaric primal release.

In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.

Re:You're violating my rights!

[Jonathan]

Wow, that wasn't inflammatory.

Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals -- they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species!

Re:Wait... Logic Check...(offtopic but true)

[EtherAlchemist]

But on some level you now understand what its like to crap in the bushes like a deer.

Or piss on one.

My dad and I were hunting years back on a tree farm. About 20 minutes before sunrise (can't shoot here till then) he went off to take a leak. A minute later I hear some loud rustling and he yelled astring of curses.

He had walked up to a clump of tall grasses and was relieving himself when a buck jumped up from within the grass, where it was sleeping, and ran off. My dad had pissed on it and woke it up.

He said "imagine being that buck's wife and trying to explain who's scent that is!"

Re:Wait... Logic Check...

[Greyfox]

Where do you get your chicken breast for $1.99/lb? It's around $6.50 here. I think I would probably hold it over my head shouting in sheer barbaric primal release too, if I found it for $1.99/lb...

Re:Snide remark

[InfiniteWisdom]

Oh that's right. I forgot that you can download the dead animals over the Internet these days. Sorry.

Re:A good use for this.

[MMMDI]

New Zealand... kids... sheep...

Must not insert joke. Must not insert joke. Must not insert joke.

An assload?!

[autophile]

I used to dislike hunters. Then I met one -- hell of a guy. He gave my family an assload of venison steaks and moose sausage.

I don't think this could be funnier if you tried.

--Rob

Re:A good use for this.

[fr2asbury]

Hey, there's an idea. I could set up a fly swatter with a web cam and let the world kill my bugs for me!

Re:You're violating my rights!

[Spock the Baptist]

Sir,

Allow me to introduce myself.

I am Nefarious D. Felineslammer, and my company is Cat Assassins of Texas.

I can be reached at 1-800-DEADCAT, that's 1-800-DEADCAT.

Our motto is, You Pay, We Slay.

Call now to hear your last meow.

Re:Hunting

[sconeu]

It's quite amazing, actually; they have evolved in a very short span of time

For those living in Kansas, they have been intelligently designed in a very short span of time.

Re:You're violating my rights!

[jimmydevice]

If the're not guilty, why are they running?

MOD PARENT TO APPLE HATER HELL

[jericho4.0]

What "critisism of apple"? What are you implying? You're lucky I don't have mod points!!!

Re:A good use for this.

[Frogbert]

For instance, here in New Zealand we have possums introduced from Australia

You can't complain, over here in Australia we have New Zealand Citizens introduced by New Zealand. I kill about 50 a year and still they come....

Hunting should be promoted in all forms

[tacocat]

It's so much more humane to blow the brains out of your food than to ruthlessly rip it out of the ground. Plants have no chance. They have no fight or flight mechanisms.

Re:Sadistic people

[TroyFoley]

I know god wanted us to eat them otherwise he wouldn't have made them taste so good.

I could say the same thing about people, though. :)

Re:Sadistic people

[Big Hairy Goofy Guy]

I know god wanted us to eat them otherwise he wouldn't have made them taste so good.
...Any psychologist will tell you that children who kill animals for fun are prime candidates to become serial killers.

Well, I know god wanted us to have condom-protected pre-marital sex otherwise he wouldn't have made it feel so good. And any psychologist will tell you that adults who know the mind of god are prime candidates to become megalomaniac cult leaders.

Speaking for us carnivors.

[Big Smirk]

Thank god I mostly eat meat from the grocery store - there they only kill the guilty animals! "whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine." Oh, and I here they only pluck guilty vegitables as well. Don't want to kill the innocent type.

Re:PETA approved

[Ronald Dumsfeld]

*sigh* PETA is just too extreme. And red meat is just too tasty.

That's odd. I thought PETA stood for People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.