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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 2006 9:00 AM

Madonna in Pheasant Hunting Controversy

Submitted by Alyk

Edited by Alyk

Tags: Madonna, Hunting, Pheasant

Madonna stirred controversy again--not by crucifying herself on stage this time--but instead for for purchasing one thousand French pheasants to be shot on her property during hunting season. Although Madonna gave up pheasant hunting, fellow hunters will pay almost £10,000 a day for the opportunity to hunt on her 1,200 acre English countryside estate.

The singer once experienced some unpleasantness while pheasant hunting, leading to her retirement from the sport. While hunting, a bird she shot landed in front of her, bloody and still alive.

She said: "The bird really suffered. Blood gushed out of its mouth. I haven't shot since."

That unfortunate experience will not stop her from earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from other hunters.

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AstralTraveller

United Kingdom

January 2003

SEP 06, 2006 09:13 AM

Get over the Burberry, Madge. It's so very unbecoming.

Quirky

Birmingham, AL

October 2005

SEP 06, 2006 09:15 AM

Goooooooooo Capitalism!

Snottlebocket

Netherlands

March 2004

SEP 06, 2006 09:19 AM

She said: "The bird really suffered. Blood gushed out of its mouth. I haven't shot since."

how stupid can you be, what the hell do you think happens when you shoot some poor bird with an ounce of led pellets.
go cleet shooting if you don't want to see animals die.

Prophecusp

Los Angeles, CA

October 2003

SEP 06, 2006 09:28 AM

yay starbucks....give me madonna in 1990...before the h&m ads...i agree w the guy above me

fragilocyte

Brooklyn, NY

July 2005

SEP 06, 2006 09:45 AM

i hope she gets wrist cancer. the cunt.

Tura_Satana

Virginia Beach, VA

March 2004

SEP 06, 2006 10:03 AM

Snottlebocket said:

She said: "The bird really suffered. Blood gushed out of its mouth. I haven't shot since."

how stupid can you be, what the hell do you think happens when you shoot some poor bird with an ounce of led pellets.
go cleet shooting if you don't want to see animals die.

Why is that stupid? Normal is more like it. Not until people actually witness the negative effects of their actions do they usually realize what they have been doing and stop.

Whats bizarre here is that she feels that way, yet doesn't care about others making birds "suffer" on her property. I could almost understand her giving it up as being a simple "not for me" kind of thing. But her quote makes it sound like more than that, and you'd have expected her attitude toward hunting birds to have changed more significantly.

Personally I wish we could give animals guns and make hunting fair.