Oh Deer

[cat_man]

Well, I understand where you're coming from, and I feel for the loss of her grandson. I can't even imagine how horrible that must have been. That still doesn't justify what she did though. Of course I agree with you that the Officer shouldn't have written her a citation, it seems pretty ridiculous. I didn't even know there was such a law that says you can't scare away deer when someone is hunting -- it's kind of weird anyway. But as for this woman's actions, she was still completely in the wrong.

First of all, the article never said that they didn't have permission to be in the tree stand. It quoted this woman as saying that. She was NOT the landowner, it was a relative of hers, and that relative had given these two hunters permission to hunt on their land. I bet the tree stand wasn't even mentioned. If I was hunting and I saw a perfectly good tree stand to use, I would probably use it too!

Also, the article never said that her grandson died in that very treestand. All it said was that he died in a hunting accident. That could be anywhere. Maybe not even on the same piece of property -- who knows. We can only speculate since the article didn't specify.

Don't get me wrong, I think the whole situation was ridiculous. She shouldn't be cited for something so silly. But she did bring it on herself by acting ridiculously too.
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