Ha!

[minsue]

That'll learn ya.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish hunter was knocked unconscious after his son shot a flying Canada goose which then fell onto his head, news agency TT reported Wednesday.

"I guess it wanted revenge," hunter Ulf Ilback told local newspaper Extra Ostergotland, according to TT.

Ilback said he had to stay in bed for two days after being knocked out by the goose, which fell from around 60 feet. The birds can weigh up 13 pounds.

 

[tolyk]

Good shot goosie, good shot.

 

[Belegon]

hunters...*shaking head*


mixing four a.m., beer and firearms just never seemed like a good idea to me...

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I hope the bird saw it coming, changed it's angle and picked up speed before the kid pulled the trigger.

 

[yui]

Bwahahahaha! That goose must have gotten, like, ten thousand extra bonus points for that hit.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Score one for Mother Nature.

 

[cantdog]

The 4 am part always seemed excessive to me. We never had alcoholic anything when I was hunting, any of us. Hunted all the same, mind you. Crazy.

I stopped really hunting long before I stopped going out all day with the other hunters in the family. I lost the taste for it, somehow. It was nice to be in the woods all day. In the fall, especially.

But I never hunted anything but deer, even when I was seriously still planning to hunt, out there. We needed the cheap protein back then, life was grimmer. I would still go out with a grandchild or something, even now, because the taste for the woods never develops if you don't get out in it. My own 'hunt' would be unproductive, still, because I no longer desire to kill them. It's a strange and complex thing, that entire area of my life. All the hunters I've known have come and gone on the idea. But all of them still love being in the woods. Most of them take cameras, now, chiefly in order to have a goal, I think. I want to see the critters and birds, watch the plants and insects and trees around me, and I generally only take a camera if I plan to write about a trip.

If it's a consolation, or a clarification, I feel just as alien, just as out of place, in a sports arena. I never developed any sense that what went on there had to do with me, when I was growing up. Sports team people detested me and excluded me systematically. I now know enough to spectate intelligently at basketball games and football games, hockey and soccer, but I have no desire to know about the players in the pro leagues playing anything at all. It's purely a social thing. A defense against boredom when I'm in the presence of a televised game with friends who like that sort of thing.

 

[minsue]

Bwahahahaha! That goose must have gotten, like, ten thousand extra bonus points for that hit.

Yeah, but I'm guessing it'd rather trade 'em for a chance to keep flyin.....

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Ohmagawd, they're shooting back now?

 

[Guest]

Ohmagawd, they're shooting back now?

Wait until you see what the reindeer are planning?

That venision you're cooking smells good.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think I better warn dad - he's moose hunting now.

 

[woodnymph_O]

Way to go goose

 

[yui]

Yeah, but I'm guessing it'd rather trade 'em for a chance to keep flyin.....

That goes without saying! But if someone is going to shoot you out of the sky for sport, I say take them with you when you go.

I think I better warn dad - he's moose hunting now.

 

[Guest]

That goes without saying! But if someone is going to shoot you out of the sky for sport, I say take them with you when you go.

yui, i wanna blow raspberries on your belly.


oh ...so sorry, what was this thread about?

 

[Liar]

I think I better warn dad - he's moose hunting now.

"Ok guys, here's the plan. If we stampede fast enough in their direction, they won't have time to aim."

 

[minsue]

"Ok guys, here's the plan. If we stampede fast enough in their direction, they won't have time to aim."

It'd work on me, that's for sure.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/mnriver/Canada%20Goose.GIF

Oh yeah, I'm bad, I'm bad. Hunter's beware 'cause I'm an original member of Minsue's bad news goose guild.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[minsue]

Oh yeah, I'm bad, I'm bad. Hunter's beware 'cause I'm an original member of Minsue's bad news goose guild.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[shereads]

That'll learn ya.

I'll bet not.

It'll slow him down, though.

 

[shereads]

I think I better warn dad - he's moose hunting now.

Moose? He's insane! Do you have any idea the damage an animal that size will do if it falls from the sky and lands on someone's head?

 

[matriarch]

Moose? He's insane! Do you have any idea the damage an animal that size will do if it falls from the sky and lands on someone's head?

Pleeeeasssseeeeeeeee.....can we avoid remarks like that when I'm trying to eat.......I damn near choked on my supper.........

*wiping the tears*.........

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I would still go out with a grandchild or something, even now, because the taste for the woods never develops if you don't get out in it. My own 'hunt' would be unproductive, still, because I no longer desire to kill them. It's a strange and complex thing, that entire area of my life. All the hunters I've known have come and gone on the idea. But all of them still love being in the woods. Most of them take cameras, now, chiefly in order to have a goal, I think. I want to see the critters and birds, watch the plants and insects and trees around me, and I generally only take a camera if I plan to write about a trip.

I'm geekier than that. I go out with field guides and identify weeds.

You don't know how many women I've made swoon by pointing out a Chenopodium Alba or Plantago lanceolota at just the right moment.

--Zoot