Thread: Bloody Poachers!

Originally Posted by R93

Doesnt sound too wild west too me Sneeze. I have seen or heard of plenty of similar scenarios. Nicking deer out of remote traps/pens was a common one. Deer being run into fences by choppers on farms so they break their necks. Fences cut on back boundries and so on.
Some spiteful things still do happen from time to time. Some really funny things as well.

Yes we all heard about these terrible things but when investigated 99% proved to be just that, rumours and ...Paranoia.

I mean to say how visible is a helicopter hovering over a farm chasing deer around so they break their necks. Expensive fun as well. Surely going up and cutting the fences after dark would be a more sensible option if it was being done for spite.

The proof of how often this sort of thing happened, is in researching how many operators were ever actually ever prosecuted for such crimes.
I dont remember one. You see the standard of proof is quite high really, rightfully so, or I would have been prosecuted on just such rumours myself.

Or is the proof of a crime as easily decided in peoples minds, with as little proof, as we have seen here on this thread.

Ok? Then they were just bloody good rumours/stories made by the people that had claimed too have done these things then.

Originally Posted by Scribe

The proof of how often this sort of thing happened, is in researching how many operators were ever actually ever prosecuted for such crimes.
I don't remember one. You see the standard of proof is quite high really, rightfully so, or I would have been prosecuted on just such rumors myself.

Or is the proof of a crime as easily decided in peoples minds, with as little proof, as we have seen here on this thread.

So in your way of thinking if it wasn't reported and prosecuted it didn't really happen?

Originally Posted by sneeze

So in your way of thinking if it wasn't reported and prosecuted it didn't really happen?

I could tell you dozens of stories of what went on during those rough old days of venison recoverey and live capture but I wasnt sitting in the pilots or shooters seat when they happened. I could tell you some stories of when I was. Then we have the fact thats there is always two sides to any story the helicopter crew and the farmer. So they remain just that stories, rumours and paranoia, These require no proof but they have over the years cost people like me money.

Prosecutions actually do require proof.

The alternative for some people is if they think someone is poaching they smash his gear. When he gets out he smashes everybody elses gear....so soon no one has got any gear and we are all to scared to go hunting

An eye for an eye and soon everyone is blind.