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Any day they get to fire their guns is a good day.

 Orlanth wrote:
Any day they get to fire their guns is a good day.

Why do a quiet serving of papers when you can storm in and terrorize women and kids?

Why withhold judgment when you can feel righteous?

 dogma wrote:
Why withhold judgment when you can feel righteous?

I have seen similar things in Maine, where department officials come in with the overkill approach. I do admit to that coloring my perception of the story.

d-usa wrote:But "bad cops shoot Bambi" gets a better emotional reaction from people.

I'm not a fan of cops and I think there are plenty of donkey caves out there who need their badge up their rear. But this is a non-story.

I'm still unclear as to why the deer was killed at all.

 azazel the cat wrote:

d-usa wrote:But "bad cops shoot Bambi" gets a better emotional reaction from people.

I'm not a fan of cops and I think there are plenty of donkey caves out there who need their badge up their rear. But this is a non-story.

I'm still unclear as to why the deer was killed at all.

Because it was illegal for the shelter to have the deer. The state doesn't rehabilitate wild animals. Leaving the deer out on its own would kill it, just a lot more slower (what with starving or getting attacked by another animal). Shooting it is the quickest, safest method available to them.

Edit: also, shooting an animal with a projectile is one of the most humane ways available to kill them quickly.

Pretty much the above.

An animal in captivity cannot usually be released into the wild, so it has to be killed humanely to prevent it from suffering an inhumane death because it never learned to survive on its own.

This thread reminds me of the time when a couple of my cousins had some dressed out Deer they had shot off season hanging from the bucket of a Bob Cat in their dad's Potato House, unbeknownst to their dad.
The state inspector came by to check the farm and make sure there was no blight happening with one of the first stops to be the Potato House. My cousins were like Cheetas running ahead of their father and the inspector, firing up the Bob Cat, and keeping ahead of them, hiding the carcasses from one place to the next in the course of the inspection.

Relapse wrote:
This thread reminds me of the time when a couple of my cousins had some dressed out Deer they had shot off season hanging from the bucket of a Bob Cat in their dad's Potato House, unbeknownst to their dad.
The state inspector came by to check the farm and make sure there was no blight happening with one of the first stops to be the Potato House. My cousins were like Cheetas running ahead of their father and the inspector, firing up the Bob Cat, and keeping ahead of them, hiding the carcasses from one place to the next in the course of the inspection.

That does not in any way excuse such heavy handed and inflammatory policing.

 Orlanth wrote:

Relapse wrote:
This thread reminds me of the time when a couple of my cousins had some dressed out Deer they had shot off season hanging from the bucket of a Bob Cat in their dad's Potato House, unbeknownst to their dad.
The state inspector came by to check the farm and make sure there was no blight happening with one of the first stops to be the Potato House. My cousins were like Cheetas running ahead of their father and the inspector, firing up the Bob Cat, and keeping ahead of them, hiding the carcasses from one place to the next in the course of the inspection.

That does not in any way excuse such heavy handed and inflammatory policing.

He wasn't looking for evidence of illegal hunting, he was just making sure there was no blight or other Potato diseases that the state would need early warning about in order to control it. Just standard proceedure to protect the farming industry.
If you were joking, I appologize for letting it go over my head.

No one has mentioned Wisconsin has been battling CWD for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease Captive deer populations are closely monitored, and if even one deer is found to have CWD the heard is destroyed. Hence having to be licensed so they can monitor your deer population. And trying to secretly transfer a deer to another state absolute no no . They are lucky all the DNR did was take the deer. They are able to seize anything used during a crime including property.

 Jihadin wrote:
DNR doesn't need a search warrant to enter a house if there is a suspicion that an individual either poach, go over the amount allowed, or shoot out the back door. I did over a year at Ft McCoy WI. DNR has more power then LEO

Enter my house without a warrant and you're getting OO.