Toronto cops taser Bambi

Wow.

In the South, some deputy - even the sheriff in some places - gets a rifle out of the cruiser, shoots it and gets a relative or friend in the pickup to haul it off and parcel it out after the shift ends.

That's the other extreme from the end of your last post, JR.

 

Well, not everybody is of the same opinion...from the story posted.

John Cardoso, a foreman putting up the YWCA Elm Centre, across from the deer, said, “We’re actually watching the deer instead of working. My honest opinion as a hunter? It wouldn’t be standing there.”

“I should not have left the rifle in the truck,” said another worker. “One bullet costs 25¢. It would be done.”

 

wow. were there any cops left to ticket illegally parked cars?

 

Not sure if I've told the story of the guy who rang the door of our building at 8 p.m. and wanted me to take a picture of his big fish -- which was outside floating in a cooler, in his trunk. He was on his way home from the lake and didn't want to wait to submit it to the paper.

After going out to look, I finally convinced him it was too dark to take the picture there, so he had to take it home and get a photo tomorrow, in better light.

He said, "Well, it might be eaten by then."

 

"Don't tase me" Doe

 

Solid.

 

Yup.

Had a guy once come by the newsroom at my hometown paper. I took a camera outside, where he was sitting on the tailgate of his truck with the head of the deer. And only the head of the deer.

There was blood all over the truck bed. I asked him "Um, can you put the tailgate up and lift the head over it?" As much as our outdoor sorts love those ridiculous grip-and-grins, not even they wanted to see this guy holding up a deer head with blood all over the truck bed.

 

We run dead deer photos each Thursday in season. Deer when cooked right is good, but I hate looking at all these photos every week.

 

The weird thing is, we run a weekly outdoor page every Friday with two contributing columnists, but we rarely get sent dead deer photos. I guess it's because we've done a good job training the hunting populace over the last 20 years.

 

One deer? Amateur hour. How about 6,000 wild camels?

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/731113--6-000-thirsty-camels-invade-australian-town

Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.

I wonder if PETA has an Australian branch.