NEWS: E-Banking, E-Shopping, and Now... E-Hunting?

GEEK: E-Banking, E-Shopping, and Now... E-Hunting?

Just when you thought you'd seen everything the internet had to offer, someone goes and does something new. The latest controversial use of bandwidth? Online killing of animals. It's fun for the whole family!

John Underwood, the man responsible for the soon-to-be-implemented online hunting, is planning a website where hunters can log on and fire a real gun at animals on his ranch in Texas. He has already spent $10,000 to rig up a webcam and a .22 caliber rifle that can be aimed and fired at targets by remote "hunters." Underwood plans to introduce live animals as well, such as wild pigs and non-native deer that are not covered by Texas wildlife and hunting regulations. His new site will go live as soon as he can get a fast enough internet connection hooked up to allow real-time webcam streaming to ensure no "hunters" miss their shots.

How did Mr. Underwood get this brilliant idea? By viewing nature webcams, where animals sometimes wander into the camera's view.

that sounds incredibly cruel, i allready hate hunting but online hunting where pretty much every shot is guaranteed to be a painfull, crippling shot instead of a clean kill is just sadistic.

i'm having doubts about the sanity of any man who things "if only i had a gun" when he sees a beautifull animal on tv to begin with.

I'm in full agreement

wtf??

Edit to say: wait can we shoot at John Underwood?

[Edited on Nov 17, 2004 by rabidus]

When they say "animal orphanages," do they mean orphanages for animals?
Seriously.

i'm going to log onto that site, and wait until he is cleaning out the animal corpses or something, and then shoot HIS dumb ass.

man, technology fucking RULES.

but wait: Change the live animals for wrecked cars and this is a brilliant idea.

even if this whole thing works what's to stop sadistic people from logging on with the express purpose of shooting animals in the legs and such just to torment them?

Absolutely nothing.

Yeah, any way you slice it this is FUCKED with a capitol F.

And if you could get robots to drive them around? And all kinds of weapon choices? It'd be like a live action videogame.

We're gonna be rich.

Hot! I love it.

Yep, I am a hunter and a computer geek, now I can do both!

Also, let me remind the blindly anti-hunter crowd that wild pigs and non-native deer are very bad for the enviroment and it's native speices. Any manner to get rid of these things should be accepted.

Although, I would rather hunt these things in person, but that is hard from San Diego, Ca.

That would be kinda cool. I would like a website where I could log on and smash up wrecked cars. Like where you could operate one of those big junkyard electromagnet cranes and drop wrecked cars on other wrecked cars and stuff. It would definitely be a good way for me to work out some aggression.

so are humans.

Now that is some fucked up shite.

Dude, the webcam guy BROUGHT the non-native species there just to shoot them.

Yes, but us hunters acually care about humans. Well, atleast some of you.

Here is the quote from the article:

Berger said that state law only covers "regulated animals" such as native deer and birds and that it cannot prevent Underwood from offering Internet hunts of "unregulated" animals such as non-native deer, which many ranchers have imported, and wild pigs.

Under Texas law, importing non-native speices to be released would be illegal. I am fairly sure that person who wrote the article is misrepresenting the facts.

About damn time.

From the article:

Texas law apparently doesn't prohibit the import of non-native deer to be released in an enclosed area of a ranch.. just into the wild.

ugh. whatever. Even if it wasn't that particular guy that brought the non-native animals, it was some human. So why can't we just shoot whatever human was responsible for bringing these 'bad' animals into their non-native land? Seriously.
You like blood and you wanna have some fun? Shoot yourself in the foot. Total adreneline rush.

that made no sense whatsoever as a response. if we're going to allow the sadistic killing of organsims that damage the environment and the species surrounding it, than why don't we just bring back concetration camps? because, and correct me if i'm wrong, i think whatever non-native deer species and wild pigs do to the environment, it's probably horrendously less than what we (and by we, i mean as a species) have done.

So under Texas law, could he: import the animals, NOT release them into the wild, and just let people shoot them on his farm?

Jesus. This is going to turn into another one of those pointless 'Liberals caring about the welfare of things other than themselves and Conservatives pretending to actually enjoy destroying anything but themselves' flame wars, isn't it?

I doubt it is ever going to happen.

1)don't hunters have to have permits? Aren't they limited?

2)The guy is still waiting to have a fast connection? What, he's on dial up? I bet he taped a rifle to a webcam.