Killing deer yields punishment in US
Salman Khan's burtal killing/ hunting of black bucks in Rajasthan is almost forgotten news now. In India hunting is banned and possessing wildlife is illegal but when celebrities and people in power hunt, they usually get to go scot free, thanks to an insensitive press and their money and muscle power.
Now lets go to the other side of the world. In America, hunting is legal and one can get licenses to hunt deer, coyotes and other game. But when people display insensitivity and kill these gentle creatures of the wild, they are punished. I read this news report about how two kids, star athletes were sentenced to 88 days to a off-campus disciplinary programme for beating two deer to death. Isn't it nice to know that and wish for similar impartial rules and their enforcement in India. Read on to know the entire story.
Iraan is a small community/ town of about 1,100 sited about 115 miles southwest of San Angelo and 996 miles from Dallas, west of the Crockett County line. Recently four members of Iraan High School football team accused in the beating deaths of two deer trapped on a baseball field were ordered to spend 88 days of the spring semester in an off-campus disciplinary program.
Earlier this month two deer were found dead on the baseball field allegedly beaten to death in the previous night. The guilty students were charged of hunting deer with illegal means and during closed season. Two of the students identified as Call Cade(17), a first-team all-district quarterback, and Zac Owen(17), a first-team running back, are football players according to Capt. Scott Davis of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said.
The names of other two students involved in the crime was not revealed because they are underaged. But all the students face up to $500 fines on two Class C misdemeanor counts when they will be tried at the Pecos County Justice on January 8.
The four will be sent to the Disciplinary Alternative Education Placement, which educates students off-campus.
Reported in Dallas Morning News
Salman Khan's burtal killing/ hunting of black bucks in Rajasthan is almost forgotten news now. In India hunting is banned and possessing wildlife is illegal but when celebrities and people in power hunt, they usually get to go scot free, thanks to an insensitive press and their money and muscle power.
Now lets go to the other side of the world. In America, hunting is legal and one can get licenses to hunt deer, coyotes and other game. But when people display insensitivity and kill these gentle creatures of the wild, they are punished. I read this news report about how two kids, star athletes were sentenced to 88 days to a off-campus disciplinary programme for beating two deer to death. Isn't it nice to know that and wish for similar impartial rules and their enforcement in India. Read on to know the entire story.
Iraan is a small community/ town of about 1,100 sited about 115 miles southwest of San Angelo and 996 miles from Dallas, west of the Crockett County line. Recently four members of Iraan High School football team accused in the beating deaths of two deer trapped on a baseball field were ordered to spend 88 days of the spring semester in an off-campus disciplinary program.
Earlier this month two deer were found dead on the baseball field allegedly beaten to death in the previous night. The guilty students were charged of hunting deer with illegal means and during closed season. Two of the students identified as Call Cade(17), a first-team all-district quarterback, and Zac Owen(17), a first-team running back, are football players according to Capt. Scott Davis of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said.
The names of other two students involved in the crime was not revealed because they are underaged. But all the students face up to $500 fines on two Class C misdemeanor counts when they will be tried at the Pecos County Justice on January 8.
The four will be sent to the Disciplinary Alternative Education Placement, which educates students off-campus.
Reported in Dallas Morning News
