Cross post from Environment: animal sadism for lazy people

dotadave · Nov 22, 2004

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/16/life.hunting.reut/index.html

HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) -- Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.

The Web site already offers target practice with a .22 caliber rifle and could soon let hunters shoot at deer, antelope and wild pigs, site creator John Underwood said on Tuesday.

Texas officials are not quite sure what to make of Underwood's Web site, but may tweak existing laws to make sure Internet hunting does not get out of hand.

"This is the first one I've seen," said Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife director Mike Berger. "The current state statutes don't cover this sort of thing."

Underwood, an estimator for a San Antonio, Texas auto body shop, has invested $10,000 to build a platform for a rifle and camera that can be remotely aimed on his 330-acre (133-hectare) southwest Texas ranch by anyone on the Internet anywhere in the world.

The idea came last year while viewing another Web site on which cameras posted in the wild are used to snap photos of animals.

"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.

Internet hunting could be popular with disabled hunters unable to get out in the woods or distant hunters who cannot afford a trip to Texas, Underwood said.

Berger said state law only covers "regulated animals" such as native deer and birds and cannot prevent Underwood from offering Internet hunts of "unregulated" animals such as non-native deer that many ranchers have imported and wild pigs.

He has proposed a rule that will come up for public discussion in January that anyone hunting animals covered by state law must be physically on site when they shoot.

Berger expressed reservations about remote control hunting, but noted that humans have always adopted new technologies to hunt.

"First it was rocks and clubs, then we sharpened it and put it on a stick. Then there was the bow and arrow, black powder, smokeless power and optics," Berger said. "Maybe this is the next technological step out there."

Underwood, 39, said he will offer animal hunting as soon as he gets a fast Internet connection to his remote ranch that will enable hunters to aim the rifle quickly at passing animals.

He said an attendant would retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist. They could also have the meat processed and shipped home, or donated to animal orphanages.
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They say a beautiful deer on the internet and their first thought was to kill it? Why not shoot it with a camera? Are redstaters really this sadistic? Its one thing to actually go out into the woods, hunt, and eat what you kill (not that I as a vegetarian would do that) but to sit on your ass clicking on real animals in a canned hunt where the deer doesn't even stand a chance is another. Theres no sport in this. I'm not going even get into the legal issue of what happens if an annonomus user sees a human in their sites.

So what do you guys think?

loveflower · Nov 23, 2004

to sum it up... its bullshit

they can't possibly do that, i mean to sit in your little chair and click a mouse and bam you killed an animal, how lazy do you have to be?! i agree it is one thing to go out and kill an animal and eat it but to be this lazy and ungrateful.. its just crazy

drumminmama · Nov 24, 2004

It's legit. unfortunately. I double checked with AP.

ryupower · Nov 24, 2004

They told us in the news...
Now what to do?? Hack into thir site and DESTROY it.....I may even try that....who's with me??
*prays that Ash_freakstreet will agree eventhough he's not vegitarian.....*

Chronic4:20 · Nov 24, 2004

THATS REALLY GAY , just get up off your lazy ass and shoot a real deer, or any animal as long as your killing something!

AnnieChere · Nov 24, 2004

That's SICK. I've heard that one of the main reasons people hunt is to feel that rush of adrenaline that comes from being a predator. So WHAT the FUZZ are people doing hunting ONLINE!? Tuh.

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