Careful. The testimony below is violent and may make some ill. The mind's images called up by the account can not be unseen.
"Chuck" is Palin's father.
From Kos:
Remember Sarah Palin's bizarre plea to the Alaska State Troopers that her former brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten, ought to be fired because he had "unfairly" chased down and shot a wolf on a snowmachine? And remember how ridiculous that complaint seemed in light of the fact that as governor, she advocates chasing down and shooting wolves from airplanes?
Well, to hear Mike Wooten tell it -- as he did in this 2005 AST investigation into Palin's complaints -- the Palin's are even more full of shit than previously believed.
Keep in mind as you read this that Palin's complaint about the wolf shooting was this:
Here's Wooten (MW) telling AST investigator Sergeant Ron Wall (RW) about the wolf shooting incident:
RW: Okay. Next is the wolf.
MW: Okay.
RW: And ah I understand that you were on a wolf hunt with ah CHUCK again?
MW: Yup.
RW: Several years ago.
MW: Yup.
RW: Ah can you tell me about that incident?
MW: Yup. Ah we were in Beut Lake, which is...
RW: Okay, I know where that one's at.
MW: 40+ miles up the ah Denali Highway.
RW: Mmhm.
MW: And then 8 or 10 miles in land.
RW: Yup.
MW: And ah staying in a cabin that a buddy of his owns. And it was the early morning CHUCK comes ripping across the lake and ah comes in the cabin and says, "Get your stuff on and grab your rifle we gotta go."
RW: Was he in a sled? Is that?
MW: Snow machine yeah.
RW: Yeah.
MW: And I said, "Ah what's going on?" And he said, "ADRIAN's got a wolverine and 3 wolves and he's down over the hill just off the lake." And I said, "Okay." So I jumped on the snow machine and followed him out there. And when we ah got down to where we could see where a caribou had been taken down. Caribou like kill.
RW: Mmhm.
MW: Umm I saw ADRIAN going after one wolf and CHUCK started after another one and I followed CHUCK umm and umm we got down to where the wolf was at and CHUCK shot at it with his ah he shoots a 225 (inaudible) rifle. And umm he shot it once and I and I saw it hit right in the middle of the back and it continued to run. And then he... we followed it with our snow machines and he ah shot at it again and I don't know if he hit it or not. And then it was running towards some thick brush and he umm ran into it with his snow machine. And then he ah tried to shoot it again and he hit it again umm and then...(inaudible).
RW: So he shot it two other times after the first one?
MW: Yeah. He--he hit it twice for sure that I know of and a third time I don't know if he hit it or not. And then the ah wolf ah ran through some really thick brush and there was a river or a creek or something and it was frozen over in the area and I ran my snow machine right over the thick brush and just kind of followed the tracks and came back out on the river and I was driving down the river following the tracks in the snow. And the river made a bend. A sharp bend. And when I came around the bend I could see where the wolf lost its tracks and slid ah fell and slid and I stopped my snow machine and when I stood up on my snow machine the wolf was still alive so I had like a tank commander's holster.
RW: Mmhm.
MW: With my pistol. So I drew my pistol out and shot it. And ah it went down and I got off the snow machine and I was walking over to it and it stuck its head up again so I shot it again. An and then it died and that was it. And then after... after the wolf was dead I was there for probably I don't know 10 minutes or so and CHUCK comes running down the river and he said ADRIAN had went after another wolf and he was following ADRIAN and then he saw a wolverine and he started chasing the wolverine and it got away from him so he doubled back around and came over to where I was at and I had killed the wolf that he had shot twice and hit with the snow machine once.
RW: So he hit it with his sled too?
MW: Oh yeah he ran right into the tail end of it. It was running... he was... he was riding and you know it was running... it was quite a ways from us and we were riding snow machines to catch up to it and while it was running umm I don't know whether the wolf turned and ran in front of him or if he turned and ran into the wolf but he hit it with his snow machine. I watched him hit it. Took the tail end right out from underneath it.
RW: Was that ah after he shot it?
MW: Yeah.
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