Hunting is only an atrocity to city dwellers
Everywhere else it's a part of life.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/16/booth-taking-heat-for-bear-baiting-excursion
CALGARY - For a professional sports star, its about as unsporting a kill as they come.
Vancouver Canucks forward David Booth, safe and relaxed in his tree platform hideout, waiting patiently as a rotting stew of oatmeal, molasses and beaver offal works its magic on the bruins below.
Soon enough, the bears do come, wandering through the woods near Albertas Peace River, seeking out the pungent promise of easy food.
As one big male black bear sniffs around, trying to get a taste of the stinky slop hidden inside an old oil drum, the Canucks' $4.5-million puck swatter lets loose with an arrow, nailing the animal in the side.
Its called bear baiting, and its illegal in 18 U.S. states, plus British Columbia, because its considered a cowardly way to kill, even by those who normally support hunting.
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura once said bear baiting doesnt even qualify as a sport.
That isnt hunting. That is an ambush. That is an assassination, Ventura said.
But Alberta still allows bear baiting, which is why Booth came to this province just one week after his NHL team crashed and burned in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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Doesn't sound much like he was "hunting".
Kn.
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