Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on December 20, 2009, 03:26:41 PM
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 2:18 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Game Commission says a hunter used pastries to illegally bait the largest bear killed in the state during the 2009 season.
Game commission officials said today they will charge Charles W. Olsen Jr., of Wilkes-Barre, with illegally killing the 707-pound bear. Officials say he admitted using bait when questioned on Nov. 25.
According to the game commission, Olsen raised suspicions a week before the season when he was spotted driving a truck loaded with pastries through a heavily hunted area. A wildlife conservation officer took down Olsen's license plate and asked other officers to be on the lookout when the season started.
Olsen faces fines and the loss of hunting privileges for three years.
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 20, 2009, 03:28:58 PM
Post by: markts on December 20, 2009, 03:29:14 PM
Post by: byrdman on December 24, 2009, 03:54:47 AM
Three years isnt enough> Mark
Do you disagree with the ethics of baiting bear or feel that since a(ny) law was broken the penalty should be greater?
Post by: rasbo on December 24, 2009, 04:25:45 AM
Post by: markts on December 24, 2009, 06:04:53 AM
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2009, 06:12:02 AM
Post by: byrdman on December 24, 2009, 08:11:17 AM
Its jsut another form of cheating or better defined as poaching.
Who do you feel is being cheated? The other hunters of Penn., the general citizenry of Pennsylvania, the bears, the Penn. wildlife commission...(?)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend a guy for breaking the law, yet I surely don't think every law is necessarily a reasonable law either. Especially in the case of Washington's bear baiting law being based on bunny-hugger emotions as opposed to sound/science based wildlife management. I do also realize that Pennsylvania's reasons for baiting being illegal may in fact be science based as opposed to emotionally motivated.
It just seems that we are pretty quick to hang someone for what sometimes appears to be a lesser infraction.
Post by: shoot-em-dead on December 24, 2009, 08:20:40 AM
Post by: jackelope on December 24, 2009, 08:24:39 AM
It just seems that we are pretty quick to hang someone for what sometimes appears to be a lesser infraction.
dude...the puke that killed this bear is a poacher, clear and simple.
Post by: markts on December 24, 2009, 08:37:01 AM
Sounds like he knew the law- the poacher should pay the fine be it money or time or both. You would have to admit that you cannot accidental bait bears with a truck load of donuts. Seems obvious to me that he went out of his way and this was premeditated. Now if he was driving down a road and spotted a bear eating someones tossed out donut- I might have a little sympathy. I hope you see the difference as I would definitely turn someone in if I caught them in this act.:yeah: Mark