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You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:18 am
by Chuck
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Alps.html
Why on earth did this happen? Do the French not have safety courses etc?
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:01 pm
by Gh0st
I saw this on a Mountain Bike facebook group im in.
Seems very little info on what actually happened. I cannot believe for one minute that any hunter can mistake a downhill mountain bike for a fast moving animal....
More likely story would be being hit through ricochet whilst being off a makred trail as so many of them ride "secret" trails out there which happen to be in the Hunting area...
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:08 pm
by froggy
Talk about correctly ID the target ...
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:49 pm
by Les
France, it seems, has around 20 deaths a year caused by hunters. It must be all the bl**dy wine and garlic!
https://www.thelocal.fr/20171218/can-th ... -to-an-end
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:18 pm
by froggy
I am sure lunch time red has been responsible for couple of accidents, but the figure of 20 annual deaths quoted in your article (that I can not read) must been put in perspective, since ard 1,5 millions people hunt in France, the largest number in the whole of Europe...
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:57 pm
by BamBam
Like car drivers, maybe French hunters need an eye test?
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:29 pm
by froggy
Great pic !! reminds me of home
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:19 pm
by Geek
There are other article about this individual (well there was on the news on my phone), seems he wasn't a particularly nice individual - the comment from his mother says it all, something along the lines of "I hope he rots in hell".
Not papers I would read but found this following a quick Google search:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 87851.html
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... h-13429672#
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7511062/b ... ed-sister/
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest ... ets-resort
Re: You cannot be too careful when out hunting.
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:52 am
by Blackstuff
I'd assumed this was a ricocchet or shoot-through or some other 'accident' but it would seem that he actually intentionally shot at the bloke on the bike after being given the nod from the other guy he was out hunting with?! Too much Merlot the night before??
