Firetiger(MN)
01-09-2002, 11:36 AM
PETA Attempt to mess up hunters - backfires
PETA Fails in Attempt to Thwart Hunters Assoc. Press (Columbus, OH) If you
are familiar with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), then
you are aware of the fact they will do almost anything to protect animals.
This year's efforts to save Ohio's deer from the annual statewide gun season
has backfired.
For safety's sake, hunters in Ohio are required by law to display at least
400 square inches of hunter's blaze orange on their person when in the
woods. Capitalizing on the fact that hunters do not usually shoot orange,
PETA recently bulk purchased blaze orange vests and have been affixing them
to live-trapped deer in Youngstown suburbs. According to PETA spokesperson
Katie Reese, a total of 405 vests were successfully put into circulation
prior to this week, with additional specimens still being caught and vested.
Youngtown entrepreneur Guy Lockey, of Guy's Outdoors has spit in the face of
PETA by offering rewards for the returned vests this week. Hunters who can
successfully bag a vested deer can pay $5 for random and biggest animal
awards. As of Tuesday, 308 of the vests had already been recorded as bagged
with most of the hunters registering for Mr. Lockey's drawing. It's so
easy, you can see them coming a mile away" said one first year hunter after
checking in his first spike buck.
ODNR officials are worried that the poorly thought out plan by PETA might
get somebody shot instead of saving the deer. "Hunters have turned their
plan upside down, we're just hoping that nobody gets hurt and are hoping
that none of the vested animals get tangled in brush" said an unnamed ODNR
official. "PETA has really outdone itself this time." Ohio's statewide gun
season is open to shotguns only and is scheduled to close on Saturday.
PETA Fails in Attempt to Thwart Hunters Assoc. Press (Columbus, OH) If you
are familiar with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), then
you are aware of the fact they will do almost anything to protect animals.
This year's efforts to save Ohio's deer from the annual statewide gun season
has backfired.
For safety's sake, hunters in Ohio are required by law to display at least
400 square inches of hunter's blaze orange on their person when in the
woods. Capitalizing on the fact that hunters do not usually shoot orange,
PETA recently bulk purchased blaze orange vests and have been affixing them
to live-trapped deer in Youngstown suburbs. According to PETA spokesperson
Katie Reese, a total of 405 vests were successfully put into circulation
prior to this week, with additional specimens still being caught and vested.
Youngtown entrepreneur Guy Lockey, of Guy's Outdoors has spit in the face of
PETA by offering rewards for the returned vests this week. Hunters who can
successfully bag a vested deer can pay $5 for random and biggest animal
awards. As of Tuesday, 308 of the vests had already been recorded as bagged
with most of the hunters registering for Mr. Lockey's drawing. It's so
easy, you can see them coming a mile away" said one first year hunter after
checking in his first spike buck.
ODNR officials are worried that the poorly thought out plan by PETA might
get somebody shot instead of saving the deer. "Hunters have turned their
plan upside down, we're just hoping that nobody gets hurt and are hoping
that none of the vested animals get tangled in brush" said an unnamed ODNR
official. "PETA has really outdone itself this time." Ohio's statewide gun
season is open to shotguns only and is scheduled to close on Saturday.