“We didnt know it was illegal”

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A few quick thoughts….
Two of these “good ol boy” wannabe’s are recent transplants from Toronto.

They should not be held responsible for their actions.
For all their lives the CBC, Toronto Star and urban politicians have painted for them a stereotype of Saskatchewan that told them that driving around and shooting things is our number one sport after bale stacking.
Moving to Saskatchewan was their best CBC Redneck Wet Dream – a fact underlined today in a quote captured by Rawlco Radio’s Tammy Roberts – “We didn’t know the laws in your country”.
We can’t blame them for that, just as we shouldn’t blame the CBC reporters roaming the prairie countryside today looking for a grain elevator – any grain elevator – to satisfy the producers demands for the duck murder news broadcast tonight…

109 Replies to ““We didnt know it was illegal””

  3. Ducks of a feather stick together.
    Ducks have two wings…Left Wing and Right Wing
    CBC = Left wing of Duck.
    I always aim left when shooting Ducks.

  4. I admit I’ve caused violence to ducks.
    Back in the ’80s I bought ginger cake at a German deli. I like gingerbread cookies, but I didn’t like the cake.
    Being imprudent, I had bought 2 of them.
    My wife and I went down to Prince’s Island Park, it was December in Calgary, and there were 100+ ducks there. The lagoon section, south of the Bow River, had some open water but was mostly ice.
    (this was the place where, soon after, one of the ducks was temporarily famous for having a plastic six-pack ring around its neck and beak)
    How did the violence occur? We threw pieces of the 2 loaves of ginger cake to them and they started to fight like gulls over those ginger cakes. It was horrendous. Plus the ducks had numerous collisions and vicious falls on the ice trying to get the pieces.
    It was very funny at the time, but now I realize I’ve been very cruel.
    We did the same thing with the snowshoe rabbits in our backyard in Calgary.
    We used to put little piles of baby carrots out for the hares after we saw one of them with one ear chewed off and terrible furrowed claw marks on its back.
    Eventually we had up to 11 varying hares in our backyard at the same time.
    Individual rabbits would try and guard a pile of the carrots from the others and it would lead to magnificent fights with the hares standing toe-to-toe on their hind legs boxing with their forepaws.
    Just a redneck’s form of entertainment, I suppose.
    (my spaniels used to hate it)

  5. Bruce: Just think- If you were to nine those three pairs of eagles , you could have hundred of ducks crapping on your boat, dock and parking lot.

  6. Watching all the local and national news we get here in Edmonchuk on ghetto TV,only the CTV local reported that the a**holes were from Torawna.Bias? Nahhhhhhhh.

  7. Posted by: Bruce at August 10, 2009 8:39 PM
    Exactly my sentiments.
    I dunno, as I age, I’m getting more and more sentimental about critters, and even interacting with them more often. I could never hurt a critter for no reason.
    When I was 9 or 10, I killed 3 birds in a row in the woods next to our home with a BB gun and experienced terrific remorse after. Have never forgotten it.
    I even try not to destroy spider webs realizing how much work it must have been!

  8. To quote “The Halls of Macadamia” blogger:
    “I wonder which of the two professional shooting clubs that Toronto Mayor Miller closed last year had these shooters as a member?”

  9. They are just birds…..not humans….give them a fine…end of story..for normal people that is.

  10. Miss. Matt:
    I’m with you buddy. I’m sick of trying to putt through a minefield of goose droppings every weekend. At one point, there was a family of fox on our course, and that actually helped keep the goose population at bay, but of course, some idiot was concerned that his child might get bitten (as if the fox aren’t 100 times more scared of us than we are of them..), so the course manager called a service and had the fox relocated. Now it’s as bad as ever. (“Lift, clean, and place” takes on a whole ‘nother meaning when your ball rolls onto a goose turd.)
    What these three idiots did was stupid and indefensible, but in the grand scheme of things, small potatoes.
    Oh, and my aunt and uncle used to own a small farm outside Chatham, Ont. My aunt would sit on the porch with a .22 and pick off gophers and groundhogs from 200 yds (according to her, anyway). I think any farmer, anywhere, understands the value of keeping pests under control.

  11. mnd – I totally ge that that. What this demonstrates to be is the unfortunately common “nature deficit disorder”. Kids raised in the city (like me) used to go visit relatives on farms, or perhaps take hunter training during scouts. We had a clue how things should work in the great outdoors, and developed our moral patterns (which were always pretty sound) early in our lives.
    When I first heard about this story, I thought it was boys 10 – 12 years old. I was wrong – these guys are displaying immature behaviour that they should have grown out of by age 16. We don’t have many grown-ups around anymore.

  12. I fail to see how CBC, the Toronto Star or any MSM is responsible for these three individuals actions, one of whom I might add is from rural Saskatchewan. Idiots are idiots.
    Wise up, it’s ALWAYS their fault, when it isn’t Tommy Douglas’s.

  14. These group of idiots have no respect for nature. I think they deserve the full measure of the law. Anyone here who suggests that these actions are some sort of norm in western Canada are sick. All creatures have a fuction. I have no problem with someone hunting for food but this is disresptful of nature’s bounty.
    bverwey

  15. I’m with Ken E.
    What they did was wrong. It was wasteful and dangerous. They weren’t respecting the use of a firearm and they weren’t being lawful of wildlife laws. They should be punished.
    That being said, the outrage in the media is incredible. No one seems to give a crap when a human being (even a child) is murdered in this country but OH MY GOD – THE DUCKS.
    Give me a break.

  16. I’m with you bverwey, and Me No Dhimmi. I don’t have the slightest problem — none — with fur, or hunting, or sealing, or fishing, or with shooting ringbarking porcupines, or Old Yeller, if he’s rabid. Gophers, problem bears, coyotes? Have at ’em. Seagulls are rats, more or less. But the reason this incident — or more accurately, the coverage — rankles is that a lot of people — myself, and most hunters included, I suspect — who see these mouth-breathing goofs thrilling aloud at the blasting destruction of ducklings paddling around a pond feel vaguely homicidal towards them at some level, which means that stories like this one, when they’re a contiguous part of an ongoing, tangible demographic “branding” wherein destructive, stupid rednecks in the non-Liberal parts of the country are contrasted with the enlightened ones, are pretty loaded.
    I remember a story on CBC maybe three years ago about Alberta’s booming economy. The scene-setting at the outset of the story was predominated by the inside of a massive, city-on-wheels luxury motor-home caravan…and banjo music. It was just cliche, and false, a vision gleaned through Toronto-centric lenses. And then more recently, maybe a year ago or so, the National did a one-night series of reports on Saskatchewan’s “boom” all of which focused on all the people “left behind” and just generally on the harm, including to the environment, caused by prosperity. One segment (Cameron McIntyre?) opened with a closeup of two ATVs’ exhaust pipes and a horrendous roaring noise, and showed two guys roaring out of a giant shed/garage, and then tearing pointlessly across the barren wasteland that is Saskathewan. They kept going back to creative variants of that subject matter, the same father and son, shown tearing away busting up the soil, polluting, creating an awful din, and belching exhaust. IT was clearly floated as some sort of creative thematic glue to the story, a sort of key to help urbanites “understand” what’s going on in Saskatchewan.
    In the case of the two goofs, it’s an awfully inconvenient — and, you’d have to suspect, unwelcome – narrative shift that they’re from *Toronto*, which means you’re not going to hear that information provided by the usual suspects. This was supposed to be a “Saskatchewan” story, a redneck story, a story about “them” as opposed to “our enlightened selves.”

  17. ‘be kind to your web footed friends
    cause a duck could be somebody’s mother”
    sung to the tune of colonel bogey’s march…

  19. After all, we hunt here out west; and, we don’t shoot from moving automobiles.
    Bullsh*t, on both counts. That crap goes on all the time, and always has. I’ll bet these losers vote Conservative, watch Fixed News and listen to open mouth radio.

  20. “That crap goes on all the time.”
    Are you from the West, philboy? On what do you base your self-righteous, Father Christmas pronouncements?
    That’s a rhetorical question.
    Begleyman: It’s John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”

  21. Come on–give the boys a break. As if they’re the first to shoot ducks on a pond on a hot and boring Sunday afternoon.
    $16,000 in fines for six ducks! Gimmee a brake! I’d be curious to see how much a judge (or SGI) would allow me if six ducks went through the rad of my Lincoln Town Car!!
    This is a society gone amuck. A drunk driver gets a $500 fine for endangerinmg lives on the road.
    philboy: Everybody votes Conservative in Saskatchewan.

  22. note to the 3 defendants:
    the “we didn’t know” defense doesn’t cut it. either
    a) ignorance of the law no excuse bla bla bla
    b) you look really, really stupid.
    c) you ARE really really stupid in which case the cops and crown att’ys salivate uncontrollably.
    try this, it will strike a chord with many many Canadians from all walks:
    “we didn’t know the penalties for something so common in this area of the country could result in such horrific consequences when compared to a host of far more severe misdeeds, nor such lop-sided attention from the media”.

  24. Everybody votes Conservative in Saskatchewan.
    You neglected to account for those with an IQ above their shoe size.

  25. EBD- They were acting that way because they were scared. I have a feeling they’d never shot an animal before.
    Philboy- Lots of people out here hunt from their vehicles. So what? Most of them step away from the vehicle to shoot something. If you’re hunting deer on open prairie, or farmland, it can’t be done on foot. The law was meant to keep people from shooting on public roads. When you’re off-road, the vehicle thing is overlooked.
    The craziest thing I’ve ever seen, as far as hunting, was 25 years ago, near Grande Prairie. I was working near the railway that joins GP with Grande Cache, when I saw a 4×4 truck driving along the grade. There were two guys standing in the back holding a roll bar in one hand, and a rifle in the other. They had a 2 way radio, and were talking to a guy in a plane, overhead. The pilot was spotting moose, and guiding the guys in the pickup toward them. For the money they spent, they could have eaten filet mignon 3 times a day, instead of some tough old moose.

  26. Fat ugly and stupid … they’ve got it all.
    I want these tools in jail and I want them sphincter violated … then I want them to pay a huge fine.
    There is no bigger sin than killing for fun. This is not a joke and it shouldn’t be taken as such.
    They are not just a couple of wayward boys having a bit of fun, they are monsters and they need to be punished so they can learn something from this.

  27. philboy:
    This is a Conservative site. There are hunreds of commie web sites on the net. Do like the trees and leave.

  28. doowleb, sorry if some of the posters are getting carried away, but I think some are just sick and tired of Trana folks shoving their values down our throats.
    lily, you have it absolutely right.

  29. The only bright spot in this is that they admitted their guilt and accepted the consequences. (Of course, posting it on YouTube didn’t leave a lot of wiggle room.) No whining and snivelling about how Mommy didn’t love them, no faux victimhood and no ludicrous not guilty plea so that this would drag on for months.
    But they’re still dumbasses.

  31. This is a Conservative site. There are hunreds of commie web sites on the net.
    And miss out on such pearls as Do like the trees and leave.??

  32. With all due disrespect to Philboy and T – I have only one thing to say about this situation:
    “Too bad the ducks couldn’t shoot back”!!!!

  33. doowleb, sorry if some of the posters are getting carried away, but I think some are just sick and tired of Trana folks shoving their values down our throats.
    As an Ontarian living in rural Ontario, I rest my case. You are the same as us.

  34. There are billions of ducks, these fellows should’t break the law, but nobody cries about all the crops that these lovable ducks and geese wipe out in the fall. Ask any farmer and they will tell you citidiots like pillboy and his ilk what happens to crops, which for you city folk is where food comes from. You people that wail about these media concocted things should all remember, there were ducks/grizzly bears/elk and deer right where your row houses now stand, you have displaced and killed more animals in your stinking cities than any yahoo learning target practice could ever kill.

  35. If these guys had five minutes of coverage, then that’s five more than Mo Strong.

  36. “Too bad the ducks couldn’t shoot back”!!!!
    Couldn’t agree more. Same for Sarah Palin’s moose and whatever Nugent whacks and stacks.

  37. They live!! Idiot city folks and get all wound up over a couple of ducks but have hides like boiler plate when it comes to people being killed, especially if they’re killed by the “flavour du jour” race/culture that’s all the rage in what ever trendy place they’ve been told to be at.
    It’s a catalogued form of mental illness. Disproportional reaction to the death of an animal and total emotional shut down on the death of a human. It’s usually accompanied by wishing for the death of the humans that kill the animals.

  38. philboy, I am from Alberta, and will never vote anything but Conservative.
    I really hope my IQ is ten times my shoe size

  39. Eh, jerks like these can be from anywhere. The Toronto area has roughly
    five times the population of the entire province of Saskatchewan.
    So on that basis alone, you can figure there are probabably
    five times as many jerks.
    But unlike Saskatchewan, Toronto jerks are packed much more
    densely, to the point they achieve sh!thead critical mass.
    That being said, as a born and raised Toronto boy and expatriat, my favourite view
    of the city was in my rearview mirror — getting smaller.

  41. Poaching is a serious offence and gives hunters – like me – a bad name. However in respect to the references to the Duck Hunters “bloodthirst”, I can’t help but wonder if some of those people need to look in the mirror.
    Why is there such an offence as poaching if it only applies to non-Indians. My ancestors had the right to hunt and fish freely too.
    As to the bloothirst of the “poachers” I give you this video that they shot themselves.
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e4d_1249335156
    They inflicted this on those ducks for no other reason than to get their jollies from shooting the ducks.
    The lack of empathy is disturbing.

  42. “TO is a no gun zone so scratrch the formal hunter firearm safety training there, no shooting rules in the hood.”
    Uh, so that would explain why I got my non-restricted firearms license and hunter and gun safety training here last year, in a building just off Yonge St.?
    Really, the generalizations are flying around thick and fast, here, with precious little regard for truth. Unfortunately, the line about the capri pants, thong sandals and lady t-shirts on gents is too, too true.

  44. I don’t know why anyone is the least bit surprised at this. My neighbors don’t let their kids out in the back yard during deer season. “Hunters” from Hamilton, with poor impulse control and worse aim. Can’t read signs, either. Kinda nerve wracking.
    I had one in my backyard last year. Asked him if the manicured lawn and the tire swing on the tree were a CLUE that maybe he shouldn’t be there, or if the large, prominent NO HUNTING signs on the neighboring properties had impressed themselves upon his alleged consciousness. He replied he was hunting rabbits. “Oh.” said I.
    The OPP officer was very nice and sorted him out straight away.
    I’m a target shooter (or I would be if I was still in Arizona), I LOVE guns and hunting and I believe the regulations in this country are a human rights atrocity. (CPC, listen up you dorks.)
    However I don’t have much time for trespassers. Or guys who don’t eat what they shoot, varmints excepted, of course. Nobody eats groundhogs or gophers, (or coyotes) but there’s no excuse for leaving a perfectly good duck to rot.
    As to the rest of it, don’t put it on utube and don’t whine if your idiot friends shoot you in the butt by accident.

  45. Posted on CBC.
    Two of these wizards are from Toronto.
    Since it’s well known that there are no Conservatives in Toronto, we can assume they’re wayward progressive youth who haven’t seen the light yet.
    It’s unfortunate but you’ll have to holster your screams about western rednecks till another crime against birds takes place.
    Gotta go, it’s Toonie Tuesday at KFC.

  46. What I noticed about CTV coverage on the National News was this:
    The story took place in central Saskatchewan; the court proceedings were in Saskatoon; the reporter and the story were covered from – Winnipeg?
    Has CTV closed their Saskatoon station? or is it possible that the Saskatoon CTV story was a little too unbiased for CTV’s eastern leanings?

  47. “we can assume they’re wayward progressive youth who haven’t seen the light yet”
    Too long – how about restive youth?

  48. Jail time because they were from Toronto is well deserved. Otherwise a $1,000.00 – $2,000.00 would have been sufficiant for anyone else – aside from Jihadists.

  49. Jail time because they were from Toronto is well deserved. Otherwise a $1,000.00 – $2,000.00 would have been sufficiant for anyone else – aside from Jihadists.

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