| Don't drink and hunt 16:35 - Oct 5 with 2289 views | StokieBlue |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/french-hunters-react-angrily-drink
Incredible that this was even something to be discussed (although I guess in places like the US a few beers and a hunt is pretty common but it's a much bigger country with empty spaces).
Some of the numbers for France are crazy:
2020-21: 80 hunting accidents, 7 fatalities
2019-20: 131 hunting accidents, 11 fatatlies
This is quite impressive mental gymnastics as well, hunter kills someone mountain biking so the solution of a pro-hunting MP is to ban offroad cycling during hunting season.
"In 2018, a 24-year-old hunter killed Marc Sutton, 34, a Welsh restaurateur living in Haute-Savoie who was out on his mountain bike. The hunter was sentenced to four years in prison, with three of them suspended. Afterwards, a pro-hunt Macron-supporting MP suggested banning offroad cycling during the hunting season."
Bizarre.
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| Don't drink and hunt on 16:52 - Oct 5 with 1791 views | bungaytractor |
Hit a fesant once after few tins thought id put it in the boot and eat later
Mate said tie it up with fishing line but id hit is so hard you couldnt eat it which was a shame really just thew it in the bin day after |  | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 16:54 - Oct 5 with 1791 views | StokieBlue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 16:52 - Oct 5 by bungaytractor |
Hit a fesant once after few tins thought id put it in the boot and eat later
Mate said tie it up with fishing line but id hit is so hard you couldnt eat it which was a shame really just thew it in the bin day after |
I can only imagine you have a keyboard with stuck keys.
I wouldn't like to speculate how they became stuck though.
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| Don't drink and hunt on 16:54 - Oct 5 with 1783 views | giant_stow |
Blimey, they don't get much time for killing do they? |  |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 16:58 - Oct 5 with 1757 views | bungaytractor |
| Don't drink and hunt on 16:54 - Oct 5 by StokieBlue |
I can only imagine you have a keyboard with stuck keys.
I wouldn't like to speculate how they became stuck though.
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Used to but put it in garage as couldnt learn green sleeves was doing wifes head in lol | | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:03 - Oct 5 with 1714 views | leitrimblue |
Im just guessing, but i imagine hunting is pretty sh1te if yer not well p1ssed. |  | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:03 - Oct 5 with 1710 views | GeoffSentence |
“What right do you have to pick on hunters; a drunk guy on a bicycle is dangerous too,”
Whilst technically correct, I think it would be fair to say that they would not be anywhere as near as dangerous to the public at large as a drunk guy with a gun. |  |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:04 - Oct 5 with 1709 views | StokieBlue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:03 - Oct 5 by leitrimblue |
Im just guessing, but i imagine hunting is pretty sh1te if yer not well p1ssed. |
It's a pretty odd thing to do in general so I would think you're right.
Just firearms and alcohol don't seem like a great mix.
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:05 - Oct 5 with 1703 views | homer_123 |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:04 - Oct 5 by StokieBlue |
It's a pretty odd thing to do in general so I would think you're right.
Just firearms and alcohol don't seem like a great mix.
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I'd go as far as to suggest firearms on their own aren't exactly good. |  |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:05 - Oct 5 with 1692 views | StokieBlue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:05 - Oct 5 by homer_123 |
I'd go as far as to suggest firearms on their own aren't exactly good. |
A very fair point.
I didn't realise hunting was a big thing in France.
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:06 - Oct 5 with 1681 views | leitrimblue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:04 - Oct 5 by StokieBlue |
It's a pretty odd thing to do in general so I would think you're right.
Just firearms and alcohol don't seem like a great mix.
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Yer, stay away from firearms when drunk should not be a controversial statement | | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:07 - Oct 5 with 1677 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:04 - Oct 5 by StokieBlue |
It's a pretty odd thing to do in general so I would think you're right.
Just firearms and alcohol don't seem like a great mix.
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What is more odd if you eat meat? Hunting it or buying it in a little tray from your local supermarket? |  |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:10 - Oct 5 with 1663 views | jeera |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:07 - Oct 5 by BanksterDebtSlave |
What is more odd if you eat meat? Hunting it or buying it in a little tray from your local supermarket? |
Passers-by don't tend to get shot in supermarket aisles would be one significant difference I guess. |  |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:11 - Oct 5 with 1655 views | giant_stow |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:07 - Oct 5 by BanksterDebtSlave |
What is more odd if you eat meat? Hunting it or buying it in a little tray from your local supermarket? |
Easy now - Just don't shoot anyone when you're out lamping. | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:11 - Oct 5 with 1654 views | jeera |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:06 - Oct 5 by leitrimblue |
Yer, stay away from firearms when drunk should not be a controversial statement |
Is where we introduce to the discussion where drugs might fit in?
Would those be more or less dangerous than a few beers? | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:12 - Oct 5 with 1646 views | giant_stow |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:11 - Oct 5 by jeera |
Is where we introduce to the discussion where drugs might fit in?
Would those be more or less dangerous than a few beers? |
On puff, you'd never be quick enough to get a shot off. Everyone should puff for safety reasons. | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:13 - Oct 5 with 1643 views | leitrimblue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:07 - Oct 5 by BanksterDebtSlave |
What is more odd if you eat meat? Hunting it or buying it in a little tray from your local supermarket? |
Depends how p1ssed you are surely Banksy? I suggest anything more then 3 special brews and you put the shotgun down and wander off to yer local supermarket for yer dinner. | | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:18 - Oct 5 with 1623 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:10 - Oct 5 by jeera |
Passers-by don't tend to get shot in supermarket aisles would be one significant difference I guess. |
Yes but I think it was hunting that Stokie described as "odd" regardless of collateral damage. [Post edited 5 Oct 2022 17:19]
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:19 - Oct 5 with 1612 views | leitrimblue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:11 - Oct 5 by jeera |
Is where we introduce to the discussion where drugs might fit in?
Would those be more or less dangerous than a few beers? |
LSD and firearms = no never
Crack and firearms = only when holding a handgun at a 90 degree angle like a proper gangsta
Heroin and firearms = yer gonna be to sleepy
E and firearms = I just don't think you would fancy playing with guns but you never know.
Weed and firearms= it's a no from me but I have a irish/American friend now living back in Montana who's hobbies are weed and hunting, usually together. So again who knows | | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:21 - Oct 5 with 1577 views | jeera |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:18 - Oct 5 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Yes but I think it was hunting that Stokie described as "odd" regardless of collateral damage. [Post edited 5 Oct 2022 17:19]
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You'll examine anything for any kind of opener if Stokie's said it. | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:24 - Oct 5 with 1562 views | jeera |
Don't like being told what to do do they?
Even when it's claimed they're already not doing it. Like most of us on that count I suppose.
But nonetheless:
"saying its members are being “stigmatised” and caricatured. It says 91% of breathalyser tests after hunting incidents are negative."
So the claim is that despite the fact it already doesn't happen much but they don't want a law saying it mustn't happen. | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:30 - Oct 5 with 1539 views | Illinoisblue |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:04 - Oct 5 by StokieBlue |
It's a pretty odd thing to do in general so I would think you're right.
Just firearms and alcohol don't seem like a great mix.
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Deer hunting here in the Midwest is a HUGE thing. It’s a short season and my brother in law goes off to the woods every year with his buddies. Fair to say it’s more of a drinking and strip club weekend away for the boys than it is a hunting trip. I think he’s got a deer one year in the 20 years I’ve known him. |  |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:33 - Oct 5 with 1516 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:21 - Oct 5 by jeera |
You'll examine anything for any kind of opener if Stokie's said it. |
Haven't posted anything to him for ages but it's good to make him log off now and again to see what I've said to him.
BTW, you're very protective over him! | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:33 - Oct 5 with 1514 views | HARRY10 |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:05 - Oct 5 by StokieBlue |
A very fair point.
I didn't realise hunting was a big thing in France.
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Massive, absolutely horrendous
Much the same difference as the UK and US in gun killing
It is wholesale slaughter for migrating song birds - 200,000 skylarks, for instance
"France is not the only country in Europe that sees hunters decimate bird populations. It is estimated that between
11 million and 36 million birds are illegally killed or taken
in Mediterranean countries every year, many of them while migrating. More than 5 million birds are believed to be illegally hunted every year in Italy;
in October, Italian hunters were found in Norway with 2,000 dead thrushes. Verilhac says French hunters are now travelling to Morocco to hunt turtledoves, where each hunter is allowed to kill 50 a day." | | | |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:35 - Oct 5 with 1491 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Don't drink and hunt on 17:33 - Oct 5 by HARRY10 |
Massive, absolutely horrendous
Much the same difference as the UK and US in gun killing
It is wholesale slaughter for migrating song birds - 200,000 skylarks, for instance
"France is not the only country in Europe that sees hunters decimate bird populations. It is estimated that between
11 million and 36 million birds are illegally killed or taken
in Mediterranean countries every year, many of them while migrating. More than 5 million birds are believed to be illegally hunted every year in Italy;
in October, Italian hunters were found in Norway with 2,000 dead thrushes. Verilhac says French hunters are now travelling to Morocco to hunt turtledoves, where each hunter is allowed to kill 50 a day." |
Les w@nkers! | |
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| Don't drink and hunt on 17:43 - Oct 5 with 1465 views | HARRY10 |
It does beg the question of who 'owns' wild birds
If a pheasant files out of a hedgerow and smashes into my radiator it is not the farmer's responsibility - yet were I to catch the same pheasant while it is in the hedgerow, I am a poacher
(I was once a victim of the first) | | | |
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