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If the mods feel this is off topic, well then close it... But I feel this is an interesting twist on self defense in small rural communities. It's a long story, so I only pasted in the a short piece. The entire article (and photos) can be seen here...

Amusing anecdote buried late in the following hunting story. I'll just paste in the pertinent part, but the rest of the story is pretty good if you want to pull it up. http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/4253342p-4264041c.html ..."We were heading toward our destination, a spot near Bear...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20031031/od_nm/girls_dc High School Girls Pummel Man Who Exposed Himself 2 hours, 1 minute ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A man described by authorities as a known sexual...

Some Darwin Awards I haven't seen before! 1. A small-time hood (about to be even smaller) broke into the home of a World War Two veteran and stole, among other things, the old G.I.'s .45 automatic pistol, which he used in battle in the 1940's. The hoodlum then reported directly to a local...

Poor Timmy Treadwell (the animal rights activist who recently got ate by one of his friends) is becoming a joke around Alaska, while being enshrined as a hero in California... Go figure! www.adn.com Don't feed the bears with trash MIKE DOOGAN COMMENT (Published: October 28, 2003)...

http://www.zwire.com/site/10420026.html Secret Service releases alleged stalker By WILLIAM KAEMPFFER , Special to The Press 10/28/2003 NEW HAVEN -- Secret Service agents assigned to shadow the president’s daughter at Yale briefly detained a man with a gun...

I had an odd experience this morning. The weather was nice for hunting so I kept my twelve year old, Connor, out of school and off we went. We were up on a steep mountain ridge at dawn and had a group of three or four deer about 150 yards below us. We waited until it was light enough to...

I'm attaching the article below because it touches on on a number of themes we deal with here in THR. It discusses Timothy Treadwell, the animals right activist who was recently eaten by a big critter. But, in a larger sense you can take it as a commentary on some other familiar issues. How...

Nome officer charged in killing ARRESTED: Matthew Clay Owens is accused of killing Sonya Ivanoff. By TATABOLINE BRANT and ZAZ HOLLANDER Anchorage Daily News (Published: October 26, 2003) A Nome police officer who witnesses said has a background of picking up women in his patrol car...

Mielke tells jury 'I just panicked' SHOOTINGS: The Rev. Phillip Mielke says firing at burglars ''just reaction.'' The Rev. Phillip Mielke recounts the frantic seconds surrounding his shooting of two intruders at his Big Lake church last April. Mielke testified as his trial for manslaughter...

http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~1713162,00.html Suspect arrested in shooting deaths By BETH IPSEN, Staff Writer The suspect in the Saturday shooting death of two men in Aurora Subdivision was arrested early Monday morning. Mike DeNeut, 52, met Fairbanks Police...

Is a lighter a weapon? I dropped my 19 year old daughter off at the Kodiak airport last Sunday. She's leaving to spend the winter in Ireland with friends. She has a job lined up with a pub in Cork, and hopes to take art classes if she can fight her way through the Irish bureaucracy... On...

Here's mine... My son at six years old with a cut-down Handi-rifle in .223. He stalked up to within ten yards, hung over a ledge above this young buck and shot him through the neck. What a moment in a kids life!

Actually, it's insultingly stupid movie physics, but they start off the page discussing all the insultingly stupid gun stuff! http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/10/ncrime10.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/10/ixportal.html We are overrun by gun crime, says police chief By Nick Britten (Filed: 10/10/2003) A chief Constable admitted yesterday that his officers are being forced to ignore...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_827765.html?menu=news.latestheadlines Paedophile beaten by victim in jail A convicted paedophile has been beaten unconscious by one of his former victims while they shared a Florida jail holding cell. The former victim, a 22-year-old man being held...

Dog! http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_827010.html?menu=news.quirkies Mexican shot by his own dog A Mexican man who was shot in the back and neck says his dog did it. Juan Evangelista Poot, 22, from Yucatan, told doctors he was outside his house when he was hit. He turned...

When Arafat is overthrown or "steps down for health reasons" (or just plain croaks), will peace come at last? http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1058298,00.html Arafat has suffered heart attack, admits aide Officials tried to hide condition of president threatened by Israel...

A first for this particular park... Bear suspected of killing two people in Katmai National Park Bodies of man and woman from California found by pilot The Associated Press (Published: October 7, 2003) KING SALMON -- A man and a woman were fatally mauled in a bear attack...

Found this picture on another forum. They are claiming these things are running loose in East Texas and Louisiana and breeding like rabbits. I couldn't find anything on Google. Anyone here heard any rumors about 100 pound rats in the local bayou? Keith