Found this on another board, thought I post it for all you sportsmen.
Kill'em All ...and Then What? Comfortably seated in your chair, you turn on the computer, enter a hunting field, adjust your mouse on a deer which is grazing quietly and click. The deer falls on the ground. After a few days, a courier rings the door bell, bringing the deer’s corpse, sent by the owner of the virtual hunting land. These animals do exist, having implanted a cip connected to an online stage, therefore, when the hunter presses “the trigger”, the cip emits an intense electric signal which kills the animal. This is the essence of the “online hunting”, business started by a Texan – John Underwood, who did not know how to make good use of his animal populated 133 hectares field.
The investment was of almost 20.000 dollars and a “season ticket” worth thousands of dollars yearly. Good bargain! “This technology offers the hunting possibility for the persons with handicaps or soldiers in missions abroad. Also, the participants are protected for the possible attacks of the animals and safe from the possibility of unintended shooting of another hunter, aspects which have to be first considered before the ethical ones” declares Underwood when the Animals Protection Association revolted against these practices.
After Underwood, probably because the business was so successful, other Americans started similar projects. Last year, another Texan, John Lockwood, launched a site that permits ”users” to kill antelopes, wild boars and other animals which were staying on his property of 80 hectares in San Antonio. Of course, the obtained trophies were sent home immediately after a tax had been paid. Problems may occur, too. Thus, during an online hunt meeting, a user found online at 70 km distance, shut a wild boar while he was grazing at Lockwood’s ranch. But, the wild boar was just injured and the owner of the ranch had to go into the woods to find and kill the wounded animal.
Like I was saying before, this practice started a lot of contradictions within the governmental institutions of USA. The technology, which permits users to go online and hunt wild animals, alarms the hunting associations and authorities, because of the possible implications. This method presumes the using of a robotic platform, a webcam and an electronic controlled gun. Many states for USA, already interdicted by law these practices, called “online massacre over money” by the Animals Protection Association.
Even the passionate hunters argue over the online hunting, because every person comfortable seated in front of a computer can shoot with accuracy the animals that are practically in semi captivity, without a need to walk many kilometers through forests, plains or swamps.
“We consider that sick ideas spread fast and we wish that online hunting to be interdicted in USA”, declared a representative of the Animal Protection Association. Groups which see hunting as a sport, like The Safari International Club and National Rifle Association, oppose, also, to hunting remote systems. “This sport is not for lazy people”, says a hunter from Illinois. In present, in many state of USA, using online hunting systems implies a contravention and it is punished with jail till 6 months and a fee of 1.500 dollars. Persons who provide software and hunting services through remote equipment can be convicted a year in jail and the payment of a fee for 2.500 dollars. According to these sources from the IT&C market, this type of business orientate to the Eastern Europe, where the gaps in legislation permit the development of this kind of business.
Kill'em All ...and Then What? Comfortably seated in your chair, you turn on the computer, enter a hunting field, adjust your mouse on a deer which is grazing quietly and click. The deer falls on the ground. After a few days, a courier rings the door bell, bringing the deer’s corpse, sent by the owner of the virtual hunting land. These animals do exist, having implanted a cip connected to an online stage, therefore, when the hunter presses “the trigger”, the cip emits an intense electric signal which kills the animal. This is the essence of the “online hunting”, business started by a Texan – John Underwood, who did not know how to make good use of his animal populated 133 hectares field.
The investment was of almost 20.000 dollars and a “season ticket” worth thousands of dollars yearly. Good bargain! “This technology offers the hunting possibility for the persons with handicaps or soldiers in missions abroad. Also, the participants are protected for the possible attacks of the animals and safe from the possibility of unintended shooting of another hunter, aspects which have to be first considered before the ethical ones” declares Underwood when the Animals Protection Association revolted against these practices.
After Underwood, probably because the business was so successful, other Americans started similar projects. Last year, another Texan, John Lockwood, launched a site that permits ”users” to kill antelopes, wild boars and other animals which were staying on his property of 80 hectares in San Antonio. Of course, the obtained trophies were sent home immediately after a tax had been paid. Problems may occur, too. Thus, during an online hunt meeting, a user found online at 70 km distance, shut a wild boar while he was grazing at Lockwood’s ranch. But, the wild boar was just injured and the owner of the ranch had to go into the woods to find and kill the wounded animal.
Like I was saying before, this practice started a lot of contradictions within the governmental institutions of USA. The technology, which permits users to go online and hunt wild animals, alarms the hunting associations and authorities, because of the possible implications. This method presumes the using of a robotic platform, a webcam and an electronic controlled gun. Many states for USA, already interdicted by law these practices, called “online massacre over money” by the Animals Protection Association.
Even the passionate hunters argue over the online hunting, because every person comfortable seated in front of a computer can shoot with accuracy the animals that are practically in semi captivity, without a need to walk many kilometers through forests, plains or swamps.
“We consider that sick ideas spread fast and we wish that online hunting to be interdicted in USA”, declared a representative of the Animal Protection Association. Groups which see hunting as a sport, like The Safari International Club and National Rifle Association, oppose, also, to hunting remote systems. “This sport is not for lazy people”, says a hunter from Illinois. In present, in many state of USA, using online hunting systems implies a contravention and it is punished with jail till 6 months and a fee of 1.500 dollars. Persons who provide software and hunting services through remote equipment can be convicted a year in jail and the payment of a fee for 2.500 dollars. According to these sources from the IT&C market, this type of business orientate to the Eastern Europe, where the gaps in legislation permit the development of this kind of business.
