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# Thursday, February 26, 2009
Brain Dead Ohio Poachers Punished
Posted by DDH Staff

by Benjamin Sobieck, online editor

Poachers are not intelligent to begin with, but these guys are exceptionally stupid. If you're going to poach a "celebrity" white-tailed deer hundreds of people have photographed, here's a hint: don't take pictures of your illegal harvest and post them on the Ohio Division of Wildlife's Web site. You have to be enthusiastically idiotic to think you won't get caught.

No, I take that back. All poachers should follow thatlead. They should immediately send photos to their respective state wildlife agencies.

Source: Toledo Blade

If you're going to brag about poaching a trophy buck, you'd better have about $15,000 to back it up.

That is how much two men have been ordered to pay in fines and costs, including a record restitution penalty of $13,277 under a new state law, after they were convicted of illegally killing a celebrity white-tailed deer in Side Cut Metropark in early October.

The deer was a large-antlered, 15-point buck known to some Side Cut fans as "Big Boy" and to others as "Stickers," said Steve Thomson, a wildlife investigator for Ohio Wildlife District 2. It was among the most-often photographed and familiar animals in the park's ever-growing deer herd and was featured in The Blade last year.

It had been aged by a state wildlife biologist at 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 years old.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:19:48 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [1]
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:09:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
WHAT WERE THESE GUYS THINKING.? I GUESS IT IS RATHER OBVIOUS.!I SUPPOSE THEY HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS >>>>"BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT "....I GUESS THE '"GREED" FACTOR ALSO PLAYED A BIG PART. THAT REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER TRUTH.." THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL".
George Isaak
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