Five Shot Dead After Deer Hunter Dispute {Hayward, Wis.} (AP) A dispute among deer hunters over a tree stand in northwestern Wisconsin erupted Sunday in a shooting that left five people dead and three injured, officials said. The alleged gunman, a man from the Twin Cities area, wasarrested at about 5:15 p.m. Sunday at the Rusk and Sawyer County line, according to Sawyer County sheriff's officials. The violence began shortly after a hunting party saw a hunter occupying their tree stand, Sawyer County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle told a St. Paul, Minn. television staton a confrontation, and shooting, followed. One of the shooting victims radioed back to the deer shack for help, he said. When more hunters came to the scene, they also were shot, Zeigle said. The shootings happened in the town of Meteor in southwestern Sawyer County, County Sheriff James Meier said in a news release.Three people were taken to a local hospital, Meier said. Melody Hargis, nursing supervisor at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, said one of the victims, a man, was there in critical condition. KSTP reported two wounded were brought to a Rice Lake hospital, where they were in critical and fair conditions. Wisconsin's statewide deer gun hunting season started Saturday and lasts for nine days. Bill Wagner, 72, of Oshkosh, was about two miles away near Deer Lake with a party of about 20 other hunters. He said the incident was "very upsetting." After they got word of a shooting, he and others went to round up the rest of the party. He said they heard sirens, planes and helicopters and noticed the surrounding roads blocked off. "When you're hunting you don't expect somebody to try to shoot you and murder you," he said. "You have no idea who is coming up to you." It took about three hours to round up the other hunters, who were up to four miles apart, Wagner said. The incident won't dampen their hunt, he said. "We're all old, dyed-in-wool hunters," he said. "We wouldn't go home because of this but we will keep it in our minds. We're not forgetting it." WTF was he fuck thinking. Cant even hunt these days...
dunno. but if they dont, you can whine about them. Or take a morally superior attitude and declare that you dont care. or you can pander to get more. I do all of these things in a rotation, it keeps me entertained....sometimes.
i aggree it's pathetic, but the only thing i can see as being unusual about it is that it didn't get written off as a 'hunting accident' =^^= .../\...
I went to school today and I guess one of the people killed was related to my 9th grade teacher. Small word hey?