Aussie animal rights types even nuttier than our own

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And Dick Cheney was nowhere to be found.

It seems that these people try to "rescue" ducks which have been shot. One of their number took a spread to the face because she was in the water for a "rescue". She had entered the water earlier than the law allows for protesters to enter the water (Yes, they actually have a law for that).

There are two articles on this. The second article gives more detail on the aim of this group and their methods.

SOURCE1

Duck hunting protester shot in the face

* By Hamish Heard
* From: Sunday Herald Sun
* March 19, 2011

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Protester Julia Symons of Melburne suffered pellet injuries to her face, teeth and hand in a accidental shooting at Lake Buloke, 12km east of Donald in Victoria's west.

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SOURCE2

Duck rescuer hit by pellets as hunt begins

* By Belinda Merhab
* From: AAP
* March 19, 2011

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"(Rescuers) only steal ducks from hunters, which allows hunters to actually shoot more ducks," he said. "None of the birds actually survive ... they're taken over a fairly long journey to a rescue tent and inevitably, they're diagnosed as beyond repair and euthanised ... they can't be eaten, so it's a total waste."
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While its hard to imagine that any group of animal rights whackos could be whackier than the American variety, it appears that Australian animal rights whackos have risen to the occasion!!:p
 
Glad I switched my HD SG from birdshot to buckshot!!

Typical people run AWAY from the muzzle of a gun. These people confuse me...I try not to think too hard about them, but.. OWWWWWW!! Thinking too much on their thought process gives me a bad headache.
 
The alternative is that it sounds like Aussie hunters are even more careless than American hunters. Surely the hunter didn't break any safety rules, right? No, the hunter absolutely did.

I can't find a single IHEA report where somebody got shot that the fault wasn't that of the hunter.
http://www.ihea.com/news-and-events/incident-reports/index.php

It seems she was "accidently" shot in the face and hand by a 14 year old boy whilst she was in the water illegally.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/9039729/duck-rescuer-hit-by-pellets-as-hunt-begins/
I realized it might have ruined the hunt for the hunters to not be shooting, but it wasn't like there wasn't a lot of protesters at the lake, apparenly 150 of the were there. Seems like there was plenty of 'issues' on both ends of the barrel.

Just what do you think happening here in this other incident of the second story?

About 9.30am, a man duck shooting at Cohuna, north of Melbourne, suffered severe injuries to his hand, in particular his thumb, after his gun exploded.
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Tough luck for her, but jumping into a lake with ducks in the middle of hunting season will only result in her winning a Darwin Award.:cool::D
 
I'm speechless. Duck rescuer or not, jumping into the water where shot is flying is nuts. I'll give her credit for being really dedicated to those ducks however.
 
I note that the protesters say that hunters have been "extremely aggressive" and that the wildlife management official said that relations between hunters and protester had been generally good. That and other rather intemperate remarks by the protesters' spokesperson causes credibility problems.

The hunter certainly could have exercised more caution, but it is hard to blame the young man when the adult protester made the conscious choice to illegally and irresponsibly put themselves in harm's way. It personally makes me wonder if the protester who was shot did something to disguise herself or otherwise make herself inconspicuous, thereby increasing her own risk.

We all rely on the four rules, but we expect people around us to have a modicum of common sense, as well.
 
I note that the protesters say that hunters have been "extremely aggressive" and that the wildlife management official said that relations between hunters and protester had been generally good. That and other rather intemperate remarks by the protesters' spokesperson causes credibility problems.
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If you search on the incident, you will see where several of the protesters did receive citations for their activities. Apparently there as here, harassing hunters isn't legal (or not legal in the states here that I know about).
 
No sympathy for her what so ever. The agenda her kind push is simply convoluted and wrong. Starting with the fact she placed herself downrange on what is legally a live and dynamic range. Her movement represents people who think it's okay for them to subervet any such procedure or system, lie, apply a double standard, as long as their delusion paints them as right. They pave the way for those in power with less than noble intent.
 
No sympathy for her what so ever. The agenda her kind push is simply convoluted and wrong. Starting with the fact she placed herself downrange on what is legally a live and dynamic range. Her movement represents people who think it's okay for them to subervet any such procedure or system, lie, apply a double standard, as long as their delusion paints them as right. They pave the way for those in power with less than noble intent.
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Yep there was a time hell not long back where you could get away shooting folks like that without care but we live in civilized times now.

Of course I never imagined the picture of civility as a crazy person covered in duckweeds and muck trudging through a pond holding someone elses dinner over their heads darring someone to shoot them.:confused:
 
That makes two of us teeroux. As the saying goes, may you live in interesting times.

Glib saying aside, yes it's just ludicrous.
 
Years ago the comic strip Tank Macnamara did a strip on anti-hunting types. It showed a crazed looking guy dressed in a duck costume saying something to the effect of "We jump out of the airplane and glide through the flock of ducks. If we're hit, it means that a duck lives."
 
Aussie protesters as a whole are a different breed than ours. I was in the middle of a joint training operation in Australia (Side story... if you want to break a two year drought, just send a Recon team in for two weeks, it won't stop raining....). We had the entirety of the 31st MEU ashore working joint operations with the Aussies, and all of a sudden, one of the hundreds of protesters outside the training area went missing because she (a 70 something year old woman) decided to venture into the training area and got lost. The training op got turned into search and rescue, and she was not found for close to three days.
 
Let it Bleed that is hilarious

The other one is that she forgot to duck.:D

To understand the pro-firearms movement in Australia you need to understand the Labor party currently in power have some times with the Green party. Some of you might have caught the PM blubbering away on her U.S. trip about how in awe she is of America. How Australia looks to America to show the way forward. Now even though the Labor party is supposed to be 'the working man's party', they are severely anti-gun.

John Howard the former Liberal Prime Minister of Australia (the man who was considered a friend and mirror of President Bush) is the man who took the firearms away.

No American should be fooled or disillusioned to the truth that the American way of being forth right and born free is heavily satirized/mocked over there. You know, what Americans hold dear to their national identity, mocked.

In and around that Australia suffers from something Americans (real ones)
fear. Europeanization is the term thrown around for that fear. It starts with a high tax rate and goes from there. Does taxation without representation sound familiar? Australia is the land of divided and conquered where solidarity even for a common ground is hard to come by. Let alone where there isn't a huge capitol/power base behind it with an appropriate campaign of preconceived notion force-fed.



Of course there is a legal system which is nicely placed out of economic reach of most Australians especially those that might need it.


If America is the nation built on philosophy, then imagine the nation which is the anti-thesis of that.

To Rob228, it sounds like you ran into one of those so called ‘ferals’.
 
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