R
Rembrandt
Guest
Associated Press (Columbus, OH)
If you are familiar with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals), then you are aware of the fact they will do almost anything
to protect animals. This year's efforts to save Ohio's deer from the annual
statewide gun season has backfired.
For safety's sake, hunters in Ohio are required by law to display
at least 400 square inches of hunter's blaze orange on their person
when in the woods. Capitalizing on the fact that hunters do not usually
shoot
orange, PETA recently bulk purchased blaze orange vests and have
been affixing them to live-trapped deer in Youngstown suburbs.
According to PETA spokesperson Katie Reese, a total of 405 vests
were successfully put into circulation prior to this week, with
additional specimens still being caught and vested. Youngstown entrepreneur
Guy Lockey, of Guy's Outdoors, has spit in the face of PETA by
offering rewards for the returned vests this week. Hunters who
successfully bag a vested deer receive $5 and a chance for a random
and biggest animal award. As of Tuesday, 308 of the vests had already
been recorded as bagged with most of the hunters registering for Mr.
Lockey's drawing.
"It's so easy, you can see them coming a mile away" said one first
year hunter after checking in his first spike buck.
ODNR officials are worried that the poorly thought out plan by
PETA might get somebody shot instead of saving the deer. "Hunters have
turned their plan upside down, we're just hoping that nobody gets hurt
and are hoping that none of the vested animals get tangled in brush" said
an unnamed ODNR official. "PETA has really outdone itself this
time."
If you are familiar with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals), then you are aware of the fact they will do almost anything
to protect animals. This year's efforts to save Ohio's deer from the annual
statewide gun season has backfired.
For safety's sake, hunters in Ohio are required by law to display
at least 400 square inches of hunter's blaze orange on their person
when in the woods. Capitalizing on the fact that hunters do not usually
shoot
orange, PETA recently bulk purchased blaze orange vests and have
been affixing them to live-trapped deer in Youngstown suburbs.
According to PETA spokesperson Katie Reese, a total of 405 vests
were successfully put into circulation prior to this week, with
additional specimens still being caught and vested. Youngstown entrepreneur
Guy Lockey, of Guy's Outdoors, has spit in the face of PETA by
offering rewards for the returned vests this week. Hunters who
successfully bag a vested deer receive $5 and a chance for a random
and biggest animal award. As of Tuesday, 308 of the vests had already
been recorded as bagged with most of the hunters registering for Mr.
Lockey's drawing.
"It's so easy, you can see them coming a mile away" said one first
year hunter after checking in his first spike buck.
ODNR officials are worried that the poorly thought out plan by
PETA might get somebody shot instead of saving the deer. "Hunters have
turned their plan upside down, we're just hoping that nobody gets hurt
and are hoping that none of the vested animals get tangled in brush" said
an unnamed ODNR official. "PETA has really outdone itself this
time."
