Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
Very sad, more so because such accidents are so very easy to prevent.Today in the papers, a terribly sad hunting story.
A group of 7 hunters cornered a herd of wild boards in the forest, the wild boards took refuge into some thorns and
the dogs couldn't go in there, much too thick.
One of the hunter did shoot to scare them off, which is totally fobidden. You are not supposed to shoot without really knowing what you shooting at....
One wild board came out and another hunter aimed at him but missed and shot his friend instead.
The man is dead...
The police checked them for alcool but they were sober.
Stories like that happen often here, when the hunting season open, many cats go missing, last year, a hunter shot a horse thinking it was a deer....
Two years ago, they shot a Bernese Mountain dog thinking it was a fox....
Hopefully, they will change the law and make it more difficult to get a hunting licence or stop hunting altogether.....
But at the same time, the boar population can easily get out of control, then you have farmers angry that their fences are being broken and their crops uprooted, and you have cars colliding at 90kph or 110kph with 150kg to 200kg boar... the car is a write-off and the driver and passenger possibly dead.
The local authority periodically organises a cull in the Forêt de Saint-Germain because hunting isn't sufficient to keep the population in check. Hunt days need authorisation from the local authority and the dates are published so that ramblers and horse riders know about them.
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