What I'm saying is that if they really have nothing better to do, then the TPS should be trimmed. 3 cop cars to this call.... give me a fucking break!!
Who said that all raccoons should be killed..... the point is that killing of this raccoon should not cost this man a criminal record. Maybe fine him because of the clumsy way in which he did it, but to suggest that this warrants a criminal record is just idiotic.
He acted like a deranged psycho, letting his rage overcome whatever he uses for brains, and maimed a living creature by smashing at it with a shovel. That is criminal behaviour in my books, and according to the law of the land.
If it's wild life, it can be killed. If you want to regulate its killing (fishing, hunting, etc), that's fine. Issue licences and fines for behaviour outside the of the licence terms, but don't make it a criminal offence. If you want to add additional fines for cruelty... I can live with that too. Just doesn't make sense that this man should have a criminal record.
you know, while we're at hating raccoons because we are 'higher lifeforms' and 'we were here first' and this is our land and any other creature is therefore, trespassing on it and therefore, we deem our right to deal with them however we see fit - even if that means beating and/or maiming them senseless with a shovel.
He wasn't competent to kill his prey so let's stop talking about that.
We shouldn't stop at raccoons and we don't. We also kill mice, rats, ants and other pests. However, Dong wasn't interested in killing every last animal on Earth. He was only interested in killing the animal that was destroying his property. If some other pest was destroying his garden, be it a squirrel, ants, birds, or other, he should be able to kill it too. If I had pigeons on my property leaving droppings destroying my property, I'd kill them. Only a psychologically disturbed person would want to kill all living creatures when they're causing no harm.
I guess some people just hold a grudge way too long, considering that rats were the vector for spreading the Black Plague and killing about a third of the known world's population. What's next, stories or culling deer and showing pictures of Bambi. The only losers around this patch is you and Nightie, as you seem to be the only two that have continued this stupid argument when nobody else seems to agree with you two newbies.
They just can't let go of a losing argument.
Perfect example of humans being unrelentingly irrational.
You forgot about the other "newbie losers" kbear, rockslinger, northpole, totourist, greatbear, burtohmy, splowed, worf (the OP), Mr_bingoBrown2234, C Dick, bananaman, and others (maybe due to your cataracts and alzheimers?). If it's numbers that you're interested in, you're in the minority position worldwide.
Nobody gave up anything some time ago other than posting in the thread realizing you can't be taught. No worldwide news coverage is required. Most people in the world couldn't care less about killing pests in their backyard. If you need some type of poll to confirm this, you know less about the world than you do on this topic.
This statement is so typical of the self-righteous left wing animal loving bleeding heart hypocrites. People like you cannot be engaged in any kind of adult, reasoned debate or discussion, because you refuse to see things that do not line up or support your point of view. Guys like you will never be convinced that you are wrong because you are both too insecure. No matter how stringent the logic presented to you might be, you will never accept it because to admit you're mistaken would be seen as some threat to your manhood.
Again, you know so little as a newbie, or you would know from past posts that I get paid to study and deal with wildlife dead or alive, all over the world fpr a good chunk of my professional life. Dealing with more serious events than a crazy homeowner raining hate on family of Racoons, so you can study animals part-time all you want, but it pails against anything I've put on my CV.
Congrats, you've been right about one thing thus far. You see, it's not so hard to admit being wrong. I just did. Now you should too about your indefensible logic concerning Dong and treatment of pesky wildlife.
You can't even get it it straight as I'm not a leftie, not even close. As for the rest of your post, it's all been covered before in spades or just total garbage from a newbie. Any member who's been active on here longer than you and just not a lurker/troll, can tell you I've admitted errors numerous times in past threads , so you are just showing how quick you are to spout baseless arguments.
Good but I haven't found as much time in the past few years because making $$$ comes first. Part time as in hobby, moreso with aquatic species than land animals.
You've got it wrong.
