Donkey killed after SC hunter mistakes it for deer

GREENWOOD, S.C. -- Authorities say a donkey in a South Carolina pasture has been shot and killed by a hunter who thought the animal was a deer.

The Index-Journal of Greenwood reported the donkey had just been caught by an animal rescuer and placed in the Greenwood County pasture when it was found dead Wednesday.

The donkey's new owner Boyd Purdy says he put the animal in the pasture to help protect his goats from wild dogs.

Link: http://www.indexjournal.com

If someone's eyes are that bad, they don't need a hunting license or a driver's license. They don't need to be hunting at all. It's people like this who give hunters and gun owners a bad name. They lack judgement, eyesight or both. Someone will defend them, and that makes it worse.

Edit: Maybe Cheney was hunting with Sanford.

But it's got 4 legs and they have a gun . . . so ya gotta shoot SOMETHING (hic!)

More South Carolinians will be upset about this than are upset about their governor and his wandering pecker ways.

However, as I have pointed out, he won't resign. Even if he is impeached, he has vowed to do everything to prevent his leaving office. His lawyers are already drawing up plans probably. He would have to be physically carried out.

So the legislature is looking at spending the next session dealing with him or ignoring him and trying to do something for the state for a change. If he vetoes a bill, they will override it as they have forever.

is fun, except when a friend's face gets in the way, so stay inside your house while these dipshits are playing Davy Crockett during hunting season.

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I am sure it is full of the loveliest people there is.

I am sure this fellow knew that though.


Oops! Didn't mean to respond to myself. This was meant for the OP! D'oh!

Ain't that the truth.

Just type "hunter fatally shoots" in Google and see how many stories pop up.

Special to The New York Times
Published: Monday, October 22, 1990


In the wooded outskirts of Bangor, five black and orange "NO TRESPASSING" signs warn hunters and curious onlookers not to go near the house where Karen Ann Wood lived.

Two years ago, before the signs went up, the 37-year-old Mrs. Wood, who had recently moved to Maine from Iowa, walked into her backyard and was fatally shot by a local hunter. The hunter, Donald Rogerson, later said he mistook her white mittens for the tail of a deer.

The ensuing trial, in which a jury on Wednesday found Mr. Rogerson, a 47-year-old produce manager for a supermarket, not guilty of manslaughter, captured the nation's attention and polarized this small city.

While the verdict has troubled many residents who believe that Mr. Rogerson was hunting recklessly, the trial itself has exposed an even deeper issue: the struggle of a traditional hunting culture trying to survive in the face of increased modernization and anti-hunting sentiment -- values often brought into Maine by people from outside the state. Often those values come in the form of pressure for stricter gun control laws and quests for new housing developments.

"The problem is that your dyed-in-the-wool hunters just believe they have an inalienable right to hunt everywhere," said Michael Foster, a 27-year-old hydroelectric technician who is a Bangor native. "Local, indigenous native Mainers are slightly provincial anyway. To have outside people come in and shape policy, they really resent that."

and my kids were raised out there. I heard gunshots in the woods, and took off with a baseball bat one day down my paths. I saw 3 guys with rifles wandering around, even with my NO HUNTING signs everywhere. I had called the sheriff before I went to the woods, and he was right behind me. I ran at the guys and they ran away. They KNEW they were trespassing...I had the cops right behind me.
what if one of my kids had been out there? I have sooo many friends with sooo many stories here where I live of complete idiots trespassing on private property as tho they can hunt anywhere,.

the asshole in this story should be made to eat the whole donkey.

One evening, I heard what sounded like gunshots out in the woods. We had a new born foal in one of the lower pastures and I was worried some hunter that was stupid enough to be trespassing and hunting out of season would think she was a deer and shoot her or her dam.

I called the sheriff's office and went out to check. The deputy that responded walked out in the pasture with me also though the noises - which continued - were gun shots, though he thought they were small caliber pistol shots. When he spotted the foal with his flashlight, *he* thought it was a deer!

It turned out to be kids trespassing on the neighboring property setting off firecrackers. The echo through the valley and the woods made them sound like gun shots.

Now we are surrounded by subdivisions so I fear poachers less than I used to. Our last poacher turned out to be a neighbor, though, so I do not feel completely safe to turn mares with newborns out in the lower pastures if I've heard anything that sounds like gunfire.

Too bad about the donkey.

on his cows in bright orange.

I'm originally from Jersey and knew of farmers that would paint "COW" in florescent paint on the sides of their cows during hunting season. Asshole hunters...


I agree with the poster above who said the jerk ought to have to eat that whole damn donkey.

The husband tells the wife if she needs him to fire a shot and he will come..

After a while he hears a shot and goes to where his wife is, he finds her standing with her rifle covering the landowner, she points to the animal she shot and tells the husband "he says this is his", the landowner says "she can keep it, I just want my saddle back"..


Oh and then there's the Jeff Foxworthy thing about "If your honeymoon plans included anything to do with a deer camp, you just might be a redneck"..

NOT IN THE WOODS, no check.

You don't shoot animals behind fences.

Is there any kind of eye test to get a hunting license/permit? or any test at all, for that matter? I'm sure different states have different laws, but from what I remember from being a kid in Michigan, you just had to buy one - there were different amounts available for different seasons, but I don't know that there were any tests or anything.

Someone here must have an answer for this, at least for where they live, if not S.C.

who goes out hunting every season. granted, he takes his son or someone else with him, but he's still the one doing the shooting.

:shrug:

That sounds pretty fucking crazy to me. ... and I don't think that makes me some sort of anti-gun nut. Hell, I'm all for hunting in some places, especially where there is serious deer overpopulation (though I think maybe reintroducing wolves would be a better way to sort it out).

How? What? Huh? I could understand the guy still wanting to go hunting to be out doors, etc. but why should he be able to carry a gun? That boggles my mind.

Still, my question is unanswered: do you know if he has to, or even once had to, take any kind of test to get a license?

never heard husband or his friends mention one.

crazy, i agree.

So apparently there is no visual impairment that will impede a person getting their chance to blast away.

COMPLETELY FUCKING CRAZY!?! Or are these the same states that will give a blind person a chauffeur's license?

He then began painting BIG blaze orange circles on his cows the following year during deer killing season.

I guess I'm not opposed to legal hunts - but WTF?

Shouldn't the law state that a hunter must be AT LEAST as smart as the animals they hunt??


:wtf:

No shit. That's a law I'd support.