Hunting with Cripples
Such strange things you encounter while surfing.
So, there's blogger who has dubbed Kerry "Senator von Munchausen" due to Kerry's Christmas-in-Cambodia story and now he his trying to fact check a story Kerry told Field and Stream about hunting deer on Cape Cod. Kerry claims to have come-this-close to bagging a 16-point buck out on the cape. The blogger is dubious so he's turning the distributed intelligence of the internet lose on Kerry's hunting story.
That's not the strange part.
Another blogger mentioned in same post is trying to confirm if Kerry ever ran in the Boston Marathon.
That's not the strange part either.
The strange part is in a table of deer hunted in the state of Massachusetts that the first blogger links to. It really has nothing to do with Kerry other than to prove that people do actually hunt deer on the cape. The strange thing is the headings for the table. The columns are headed: shotguns, muzzleloaders, archery, unknown and ...
...Paraplegic.
That's the strange part.
So, there's blogger who has dubbed Kerry "Senator von Munchausen" due to Kerry's Christmas-in-Cambodia story and now he his trying to fact check a story Kerry told Field and Stream about hunting deer on Cape Cod. Kerry claims to have come-this-close to bagging a 16-point buck out on the cape. The blogger is dubious so he's turning the distributed intelligence of the internet lose on Kerry's hunting story.
That's not the strange part.
Another blogger mentioned in same post is trying to confirm if Kerry ever ran in the Boston Marathon.
That's not the strange part either.
The strange part is in a table of deer hunted in the state of Massachusetts that the first blogger links to. It really has nothing to do with Kerry other than to prove that people do actually hunt deer on the cape. The strange thing is the headings for the table. The columns are headed: shotguns, muzzleloaders, archery, unknown and ...
...Paraplegic.
That's the strange part.
posted by Shannon Love at 7:45 PM
2 Comments:
No, Mr or Ms Love. Not that strange. Most states have systems to help the handicapped hunt. I used to support - run a raft filled with gear, food, and wheelchairs - the Rocky Mountain Parapaddlers. A good friend - a friend who is a good man - started teaching whitewater kayaking to paras (who, incidentally, call themselves gimps). It was about the only way they could recover something like the feeling of being a centaur. When they seemed ready, we'd do trips. A lot of work, as you had to carry them on your back to their sleeping areas, to the places where you set up the crapper, to the kitchen, down to the river. Wheelchairs don't work in wilderness camps and deep snd. Satisfying trips - good tough people to get to know.
What you might find more strange, is that a lot of states have a program whereby the blind can hunt. You align the sights, the blind person fires.
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