;D sorry but i found this funny..go figure ;D
SHARK, Animal Rights Group, Flies Drone Over Pigeon Shoot; Hunters Shoot It Down
Posted: 11/21/2012 3:13 pm EST Updated: 11/22/2012 7:56 am EST
File photo. An animal rights group's attempted coup against a pigeon hunt ended with a bang last weekend.
SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) flew a remote-control camera over a live pigeon shoot at the Wing Pointe Gun Club in Berks County, Pa. on Sunday, WFMZ reported, and SHARK says one of the rifleman blew the camera to pieces.
"Shooting a drone is an extremely dangerous act," SHARK president Steve Hindi states in a press release. "What we were doing is completely legal. Someone at Wing Pointe is obviously so scared of our evidence that they are desperate to stop it."
State police have been brought in to investigate the destruction of the drone, which SHARK claims was worth at least $4,000.
"We want to try and find out if the device was shot, who shot it. If we can find that out," Trooper David Beohm told WFMZ. "But then, on the flip side, we want to find out were they allowed to operate this device without a permit or even over the property."
SHARK'S release states that the purpose of the camera was to capture footage of "illegal animal abuse."
The Humane Society of Berks County also argues that the shoots are illegal. They cite Pennsylvania anti-cruelty law 5511, which reads:
QuoteA person commits an offense if he wantonly or cruelly ill-treats, overloads, beats, otherwise abuses any animal, or neglects any animal as to which he has a duty of care, whether belonging to himself or otherwise.
There are exemptions for game animals, but pigeons are not included on the Pennsylvania Game Code's list of animals that can be legally hunted. They also do not appear in legislation governing domestic birds that can legally be used in game-bird releases.
In June, however, David Heckler, District Attorney of neighboring Bucks County, threw out animal cruelty citations against another gun club that had held a live pigeon shoot, according to Bensalem Patch.
"The shooting of pigeons in Pennsylvania is unquestionably legal," a release from the DA's office states.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/shark-animal-rights-drone-camera-pigeon-shoot_n_2171700.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
maybe those psycho pigeon/drone shooters were trying to prevent this.. ;D ;D ;D
Swedish Church Has 2 Tons Of Pigeon Droppings
11/22/12 11:21 AM ET EST
STOCKHOLM — A hatch on a Swedish church tower inadvertently left open for some three decades resulted in 2 tons of pigeon droppings amassing in the tower.
The church's property manager says the layer of droppings was 30 centimeters (12 inches) deep when it was discovered during a May inspection of the Heliga Trefaldighets Kyrka in Gavle, 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Stockholm.
Lennart Helzenius said on Thursday that church staff had been shocked by the sheer number of bags of excrement cleaners were removing from the tower. He says the droppings filled 80 bags in the first round of cleaning, and then just as many in the second round.
Helzenius says the hatch had probably been left open since the 1980s.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/22/swedish-church-pigeon-droppings_n_2175657.html?ref=topbar
Rather than them shoot Animal Rights drones, Id prefer them to aim their guns elsewhere , at the other related drones that have now become part of the Psycho Governments agenda !
Maybe the pigeons could aim their droppings onto the Gov drone Camera lens.
This makes me laugh and also pisses me off; if the animal rights wackos had their way all animals would be sacred, protected, and left unchecked to do as they want; abuse is one thing; fair chase hunting is totally different.
I myself am against sports hunting for trophies; if I catch it or shoot it, it is because I intend to eat it, not put a trophy on the wall.
It also amuses me over the drone getting shot down; if one came buzzing over me during a bird hunt I would have shot it myself ;D
seeker
Hunting played a role in the extinction of the passenger pigeon.
Shasta
Quote from: Shasta56 on November 25, 2012, 07:54:47 AM
Hunting played a role in the extinction of the passenger pigeon.
Shasta
Yes, Shasta, my furry friend, but that was long ago long before hunting seasons or regulations were put in place to help prevent abuse and over killing of species; flying a drone into a shoot is a little different...
seeker
Quote from: Shasta56 on November 25, 2012, 07:54:47 AM
Hunting played a role in the extinction of the passenger pigeon.
Shasta
I'm not sure i'd go as far as calling that hunting, and those were most definitely not sportsmen.
those guys back then were market hunters, same as what almost wiped out the bison out here on the plains.
as the seeker said, this happened before any serious conservation regulations were put into effect and is one of the largest reasons such laws are in place today.
and on a lighter note, what shot size and choke do you recommend for drone??? and whats the daily bag limit? ;D