Author Topic: 5 hunters murdered in northern Wisconsin? (Read 5176 times)

Nash · « **Reply #15 on:** November 22, 2004, 12:59:10 AM »

It's MY tree stand!

No Walter, it's OUR tree stand.

It's MY tree stand!

No Walter, it's OUR tree stand.

It's MY tree stand!

No Walter, it's OUR tree stand.

It's MY tree stand!

No Walter, it's OUR tree stand.

It's MY tree stand!

No Walter, it's OUR tree stand.

It's MY tree stand!

No Walter, it's OUR tree stand.

Torque · « **Reply #16 on:** November 22, 2004, 01:12:27 AM »

They should ban deers.

Pongo · « **Reply #17 on:** November 22, 2004, 01:22:01 AM »

packers season tickets available.

Sixpence · « **Reply #18 on:** November 22, 2004, 01:34:20 AM »

It's because those bleeding heart liberals took their grenade launcher away, or they would have took that zombie out!

Airhead · « **Reply #19 on:** November 22, 2004, 01:38:12 AM »

Five people being shot dead might be a tragedy to their families, but you guys make it all sound really really funny. You need to send this thread to the families of the deceased. I'll bet they'll laugh too.

Sixpence · « **Reply #20 on:** November 22, 2004, 01:48:36 AM »

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Originally posted by Airhead
Five people being shot dead might be a tragedy to their families, but you guys make it all sound really really funny. You need to send this thread to the families of the deceased. I'll bet they'll laugh too.

Not funny at all, but from what I hear, gallows humor is a way to deal with it. You see it all too often these days, senseless acts of violence. Car cuts another off, someone dead, someone takes someone else's parking space, someone dead, someone looks at someone else the wrong way, someone dead, someone on someone else's tree stand, 5 dead.

It's like human life has no value anymore. I can't imagine taking someone else's life away, I mean, if I had to in a defensive situation to protect my family, I guess I would have to, but I still wouldn't feel good about it. The way it happens today, it just boggles my mind, I don't understand, it makes no sense. I just don't get it.

Nash · « **Reply #21 on:** November 22, 2004, 01:57:27 AM »

Teh internets has made me desensitized. I could hardly give a flying **** about these guys. If I'm not supposed to be concerned about guys running around with guns, then don't expect me to get all teary eyed when they go berzerk.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 22, 2004, 02:22:10 AM »

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Originally posted by Airhead
Five people being shot dead might be a tragedy to their families, but you guys make it all sound really really funny. You need to send this thread to the families of the deceased. I'll bet they'll laugh too.

Racist

Dowding · « **Reply #23 on:** November 22, 2004, 04:54:55 AM »

Do deers really need assaulting? Hardly sporting, what, what!

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #24 on:** November 22, 2004, 06:02:22 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Racist

Ripsnort · « **Reply #25 on:** November 22, 2004, 07:18:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Airhead
Five people being shot dead might be a tragedy to their families, but you guys make it all sound really really funny. You need to send this thread to the families of the deceased. I'll bet they'll laugh too.

Agreed. Its tragic. Father and Daughter were members of the dead.

gofaster · « **Reply #26 on:** November 22, 2004, 07:23:41 AM »

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5 Killed, 3 Hurt in Wis. Hunting Dispute

2 hours, 16 minutes ago U.S. National - AP

By JOSHUA FREED, Associated Press Writer

BIRCHWOOD, Wis. - A deer hunter shot and killed five people and injured three others in northwestern Wisconsin following a dispute about a tree stand during the hunt's opening weekend, authorities said.

The 36-year-old alleged gunman, who lives in the Minneapolis area, was arrested Sunday afternoon, Sawyer County sheriff's officials said. Jake Hodgkinson, a deputy at the county jail, identified the suspect as Chai Vang but would give no additional details.

The incident began when two hunters were returning to their rural cabin on private land in Sawyer County when they saw the suspect in one of their hunting platforms in a tree, County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said. A confrontation and shooting followed.

It's not known who shot first, Zeigle said.

Both hunters were wounded and one of them radioed to the cabin a quarter mile away. Other hunters responded and were shot. About 20 shots were fired, but it's unclear who shot them, he said.

The dead included four males — including a teenage boy — and a woman, Zeigle said. A father and son were among them, he said. Some of the victims were shot more than once.

All five, from the Rice Lake area, were dead when officers arrived to the area in southwestern Sawyer County, he said. Authorities found two bodies near each other and the others were scattered over 100 yards.

"It's absolutely nuts. Why? Over sitting in a tree stand?" asked Zeigle.

Zeigle said the suspect was "chasing after them and killing them," with a SKS 7.62 caliber semiautomatic, a common hunting weapon. Wisconsin's statewide deer gun hunting season started Saturday and lasts for nine days.

Two young people who stayed in the cabin emerged safely after the shootings.

The suspect, who did not have a compass, got lost in the woods and two hunters, not knowing about the shootings, helped him find his way out, Zeigle said. When he emerged, a Department of Natural Resources officer recognized the deer license on his back, given to police by a victim, Zeigle said.

The man was out of bullets and was arrested, Zeigle said.

One of the injured hunters was in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital. Another was listed in serious condition and the third was in fair condition, both at Lakeview Medical Center.

Hunter Bill Wagner, 72, of Oshkosh, was about two miles away near Deer Lake with a party of about 20 other hunters. After they got word of the shooting, he and others went to round up the rest of the party. He said they heard sirens, planes and helicopters and noticed the surrounding roads blocked off.

"When you're hunting you don't expect somebody to try to shoot you and murder you," he said. "You have no idea who is coming up to you."

It took about three hours to round up the other hunters, who were up to four miles apart, Wagner said. "We're all old, dyed-in-wool hunters," he said. "We wouldn't go home because of this but we will keep it in our minds. We're not forgetting it."

"Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death, or victory."

jigsaw · « **Reply #27 on:** November 22, 2004, 07:33:02 AM »

All I made fun of was a stupid reporter who can't spell for chit.

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Originally posted by Airhead
You need to send this thread to the families of the deceased. I'll bet they'll laugh too.

Step up or shut up. Send it to them or get off your soapbox.

Curval · « **Reply #28 on:** November 22, 2004, 07:40:20 AM »

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Originally posted by Nash
Teh internets has made me desensitized. I could hardly give a flying **** about these guys. If I'm not supposed to be concerned about guys running around with guns, then don't expect me to get all teary eyed when they go berzerk.

I'm with Nash on this one.

I do feel badly that people were hurt and killed...but an argument over a tree stand??!!..please. 5 dead as a result?

Guns don't kill people...umm...hunters...errr ...tree stands do. Yea...whatever.

lazs2 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 22, 2004, 07:56:15 AM »

Ok.. there was no assualt rifle only hunting rifles. A person went crzy.

you can't stop crazy people from killing if they decide too. Would you rather he waited and drove his Lincoln or pickup through a school yard?

I figure if guns save a percent or two of the 1.5-3 million people crimes they stop that are potentialy deadly... we are still ahead...

even nashs hero kerrie (the loser) doesn't want to ban hunting.

lazs