Man Shot Hunting Cows.

lo_res_man · Thu 19/04/2007 22:25:06

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=01497fb7-fbec-416b-8bbb-6bf8b5d60794
When I read this story I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It's just so darn funny. But what do you think of it? I can't comment anymore, its just caracking me up.

Tuomas · Thu 19/04/2007 22:42:50

I'm not sure what funny about someone getting shot? Ok, the set up is a bit amusing if not confusing, at least for the police it is.

BOYD1981 · Thu 19/04/2007 22:43:53

they've obviously been playing too much doom

lo_res_man · Thu 19/04/2007 22:55:01

Quote from: Tuomas on Thu 19/04/2007 22:42:50
I'm not sure what funny about someone getting shot? Ok, the set up is a bit amusing if not confusing, at least for the police it is.

Okey its not funny funny, but laugh "oh the humanity" funny, maybe I am a bit sadistic, but the setup is just so insane.two guys, at night, hunting...cows. as well if you ask me, cows is a darn well funny word.

Evil · Thu 19/04/2007 23:34:03

Quote"They were actually instructed by the butcher to shoot them and salvage what meat they could and take it back to him," Boyes said.

"We're still trying to determine the identity of the butcher."

That's what I find most odd. Why would they salvage the cow and not the butcher?

That and the sawed off shotgun. To kill a cow?

BOYD1981 · Fri 20/04/2007 01:09:19

Quote from: Evil on Thu 19/04/2007 23:34:03
Why would they salvage the cow and not the butcher?

because they weren't shooting the butcher

Steel Drummer · Fri 20/04/2007 05:13:10

Canadians think they're so much smarter than Americans, and they mock Americans for their lack of.. erm- judgment- but this goes to show that Canadians are just as half-witted, if not moreso. I think those guys were trying to make a Canadian version of the Virginian massacre- except with cows. And why would they need to determine the identity of the butcher?? So they could put him on trial as a scapegoat or something? It baffles me how stupid people can be sometimes.

BOYD1981 · Fri 20/04/2007 11:37:41

well they probably want to identify the butcher so he can confirm whether or not he employed them go shoot his cows (you'd have to be pretty dumb yourself to have not worked that out

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it probably was just an accident, guns don't have any way of telling whether you meant to pull the trigger or not, they just wanna shoot shit.

Moresco · Fri 20/04/2007 12:03:40

Actually I believe they need the identity of the butcher because hiring thugs to hunt down your escaped cow is illegal. You're probably supposed to notify some kind of animal control at the very least. I can't speak for Canadian law personally, but it seems more logical than putting an ad in the paper for "cow on the loose! NEED cow hunter. must have own equipment."

lo_res_man · Fri 20/04/2007 21:51:58

human in GENERAL seem to be major dum-dums much of the time. it just compleatly cracked me up, in fact, I did an sent in an editorial cartoon to the local paper, will find out later if it will be accepted or not.

Steel Drummer · Fri 20/04/2007 23:19:47

Quote from: BOYD1981 on Fri 20/04/2007 11:37:41
well they probably want to identify the butcher so he can confirm whether or not he employed them go shoot his cows (you'd have to be pretty dumb yourself to have not worked that out )

I know that. The article made it sound like they were the butcher's cows, and so it wouldn't be illegal for him to have them killed.

Moresco · Sat 21/04/2007 00:55:47

Quote from: Steel Drummer on Fri 20/04/2007 23:19:47
Quote from: BOYD1981 on Fri 20/04/2007 11:37:41
well they probably want to identify the butcher so he can confirm whether or not he employed them go shoot his cows (you'd have to be pretty dumb yourself to have not worked that out )

I know that. The article made it sound like they were the butcher's cows, and so it wouldn't be illegal for him to have them killed.

Even still I'm pretty sure without notifying someone it would be illegal. What if they shot some kids playing in a field on accident? or themselves...oh wait, right. They don't exactly allow random people here to go hunt down deer or anything without some kind of permit for that very reason.

Steel Drummer · Sat 21/04/2007 05:55:34

But they allow a man to butcher his own cow... Like the guy who shot his cow on Napoleon Dynamite.

BOYD1981 · Sat 21/04/2007 11:51:58

yeh only that wasn't a real butcher, and the cow didn't actually get shot. it wasn't even a real shotgun. oh, and the movie is set in america and not canada. plus, you know, it's just a movie.
but apart from that you're SO right.