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For $10K, You Can Hunt This Unemployed Man
For $10K, You Can Hunt
This Unemployed Man
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Jul 16, 2011 12:43 PM CDT

For $10K, You Can Hunt This Unemployed Man

Mork Encino resorts to strange publicity stunt

(Newser) - Could the recession turn The Most Dangerous Game into reality? Mork Encino hopes so. The 28-year-old unemployed Utah man is offering “hearty gentlemen who fancy themselves sportsmen” the chance to hunt him down and even kill him for $10,000. “I am a new breed of prey with...

Mark Zuckerberg Goes Semi-Vegetarian, Kills His Own Meat
 Zuckerberg 
 Literally Killing 
 His Own Meat 
in case you missed it
May 28, 2011 12:35 PM CDT

Zuckerberg Literally Killing His Own Meat

It's no metaphor, just his new 'personal challenge'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg says he's almost a vegetarian these days—but he’ll eat meat if the animal died at his own hands, Fortune reports. It’s just his latest challenge: Every year, the Facebook boss takes on some new hurdle in his time away from the website. Last year,...

Alaska Grizzly Mauls Bear Hunter

Man in critical condition after state's first attack this year

(Newser) - A bear hunter is in critical condition after he was mauled by a grizzly this weekend in Alaska. It was the first bear attack in the state this year, state officials said. Onetime Nome fire chief Wes Perkins, 54, was flown to a Seattle hospital after Sunday’s attack. He...

Hunters Gear Up for Wolf 'Slaughter'

Congressional budget rider removes animals from endangered list

(Newser) - A massive wolf hunt is coming to the Rocky Mountain states now that Congress has quietly passed a budget rider ordering wolves be taken off endangered species lists everywhere but Wyoming. Since wolves were re-introduced to the region in 1994, their numbers have grown to 1,700, angering ranchers and...

Alaska Bans Tasering Wildlife
 Alaska Bans Tasering Wildlife 
Apr 15, 2011 4:22 AM CDT

Alaska Bans Tasering Wildlife

State seeks to prevent 'catch and release' hunting

(Newser) - It's not clear whether Alaskan hunters have actually been using Tasers on grizzly bears or bull moose, but the state's Board of Game has outlawed the practice anyway. Officials describe the ban on hunters using stun guns on wildlife as a "proactive measure" intended to prevent "...

Hunters in Pennsylvania Can Bag ... Porcupines?

Game officials declare 7-month season

(Newser) - Pennsylvania porcupines better watch their backs from September to March. The state game commission this week instituted a hunting season for the prickly creatures, much to the dismay of wildlife biologists who say too little is known about their population, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer . One member of the eight-person board...

GoDaddy CEO's Elephant Hunt Prompts Fury

He cites humanitarian effort behind graphic video of killing

(Newser) - GoDaddy.com's chief executive is facing viewers' wrath after he posted a graphic video of himself hunting an elephant. In the clip—see it here at the Huffington Post—CEO Bob Parsons cast the hunt as a “humanitarian” mission. Many Zimbabweans “die each year from starvation,” thanks...

Italian Hunters Under Fire After Killing 35 ... People

Another 74 injured in hunting accidents

(Newser) - Hunting season has just finished in Italy and it's been a dangerous few months for boar, birds, hunters—and bystanders. Some 35 people have been killed in hunting accidents since October: 34 hunters and one mushroom picker. Another 13 non-hunters were among the 74 people injured, sparking calls for hunters...

In England, a New Hunting Quarry: Man
Forget Foxes:
Brits Now Hunt Men
Jan 13, 2011 12:53 PM CST

Forget Foxes: Brits Now Hunt Men

You can no longer hunt foxes, but humans are OK

(Newser) - Fox hunting was banned in England, but you can still enjoy a sporting day on your horse, with a pack of dogs hunting a slightly different type of game: man. The Coakham Hunt began its manhunts—“for fun,” its website reassures—long before fox hunting and other types...

Hunter's Bullet Wounds Moose, Kills Skier

Swedes probing bizarre accident

(Newser) - It's moose-hunting season in Sweden and authorities are investigating one of the most bizarre hunting accidents they've ever seen. Investigators believe a single bullet fired by a hunter ricocheted off a moose and traveled some distance before killing an elderly cross-country skier, the Local reports. The hunter was in shock...

Hunters: Sarah Palin a Danger to More Than Moose

Alaskan looks like amateur on caribou hunt, they say

(Newser) - Experienced hunters say Sarah Palin didn't just take down a caribou on Sunday's episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska: She shot her reputation as a real hunter full of holes. Bloggers have complained about a series of bungles that suggest Palin has little actual experience hunting or handling a rifle, notes...

Dick Cheney Still Owes Hunting Victim an Apology

Post catches up with the man he shot, Harry Whittington

(Newser) - The Washington Post catches up with Harry Whittington, who gained unwanted renown 5 years ago when Dick Cheney shot him in a hunting accident. The 82-year-old still has about 30 tiny pieces of lead in his body, a "warble" from a damaged larynx, and his blood-stained hunting vest, but...

Principal: Possum Toss Contest 'Lets Kids Be Kids'
Principal: Possum Toss Contest 'Lets Kids Be Kids'
critics agog in new zealand
Sep 23, 2010 2:50 AM CDT

Principal: Possum Toss Contest 'Lets Kids Be Kids'

Animal activists furious after children hurl animal carcasses

(Newser) - Animal lovers are snarling after a New Zealand elementary school event featured children hurling possum carcasses. But the school principal insists the bizarre contest "lets kids be kids." Students in the rural Manawatu school lobbed the dead animals by their tails to see how far they could throw...

Bear Hunt to Protect Suburban New Yorkers

Growing bear population takes to eating garbage

(Newser) - Suburban New Yorkers have been bumping into New Jersey residents a lot scarier than the cast of Jersey Shore: black bears. The animal's growing population has lead the state to approve a six-day bear hunt, its first in 5 years, this December. Officials plan to issue up to 10,000...

'Pastry Poacher' Killed Bear Lured With Doughnuts

Man fined $7K for illegally killing black bear

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania hunter was fined $7,000 for luring a black bear with doughnuts, then illegally shooting it. Charles Olsen was spotted in his pastry-packed truck a week before hunting season. "Seeing him drive by with an unusual amount of pastries was like watching an individual go down a...

Shooting of 51 Buffalo Marks Range War

'Don't fence me in' doesn't wash in Texas

(Newser) - The fallout from a Texan's shooting of 51 buffalo that strayed from his neighbor's hunting ranch is sparking a modern day range war, and highlights a cultural chasm in America's wide open spaces. A working stiff foreman shot the buffalo after they escaped through a washed out section of fence...

Half of All Primates Endangered
 Half of All Primates Endangered 
Feb 18, 2010 1:21 AM CST

Half of All Primates Endangered

Deforestation, hunting threaten man's closest kin

(Newser) - Nearly half of all primate species on the planet are in danger of extinction, warns a shocking report by a world conservation organization. Destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bush meat hunting are the key threats to man's closest relatives, according to the International Union for Conservation...

Hunting Dog Steps on Gun, Shoots Master

Calif. man sustains minor injury when shot hits him in the back

(Newser) - A man out hunting with his dog got a small taste of how ducks must feel when the dog accidentally shot him. The hunter left his shotgun with his Labrador retriever and went to collect some decoy ducks he’d left about 15 yards away. The dog stepped on the...

Bush, Liz Cheney Speaking at Hunters' Convention
Bush, Liz Cheney Speaking
at Hunters' Convention
'NIGHT TO REMEMBER'
Jan 12, 2010 1:10 PM CST

Bush, Liz Cheney Speaking at Hunters' Convention

The Safari Club is a big GOP donor

(Newser) - Attendees at the Safari Club International Annual Hunter’s Convention in Reno will surely have a “night to remember” when former President George W. Bush gives the keynote address on the last night of the gathering later this month. That’s what SCI promises, at least. The hunters' rights...

Sorry, Glenn Beck: Senate Confirms Sunstein

57-40 vote goes mostly along party lines

(Newser) - Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for a bureaucratic White House post, has been confirmed in a 57-40 Senate vote largely along party lines, Politico reports. Sunstein, who will monitor federal regulations as director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has been under attack by conservatives...

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