I know I know. Though during gun season some of the older, like near 90, hunters do things like that
LOL Google's gonna do what they're gonna do, but the four click thing may have clued 'em in - but don't worry about it. It ain't nothing but a thing. Google will do what they do and I'll learn the outcome soon enough.
And, yeah... We have all sorts of illegal hunting here - and we have REALLY stiff penalties. Our game laws are about as strict as those in Alaska. We take that shit seriously.
At the same time, I don't mind if an old dude hunts from his porch.
I know for a fact illegal hunting has happened on my property. So long as they're substance hunting, I really don't mind.
How to describe it?
If I was a game warden and I caught you poaching, I'd make you take me to your house. I'd make you let me in your house.
Then, I'd look in your freezer and in your cupboards.
If I determined you were hunting because you legitimately needed the food, I wouldn't arrest you - or write a ticket or anything like that.
There's a little known law that lets you (or at least some people) subsistence hunt on (some) federal property. You can take a couple of caribou - or more - if you're indigenous Alaskan hunting on federal property and there are a few rules around this that I don't actually know 'cause I'm not one of those people and haven't learned. I just did some searching online to confirm what I already understood when watching one of those Alaskan Bush People kinda shows.
About the same for if a guy gets caught stealing a loaf of bread from a grocery store and they go to their house and find no food and hungry kids, they probably dont need to be arrested either
Yeah. While I don't condone theft - nor stealing from the commons (which is what poaching is) - I can understand that hunger motivates people to do what they need to do.
Back in college, and I was never caught, I shoplifted (stole, in brutal terms) food. I probably wouldn't have technically starved without it, but I'd have gone hungry without it. I don't regret it. I don't regret it even in the slightest.
But, I do feel obligated. If I could recall whom and what, as well as where and when, and those companies existed today, I'd send 'em a check for a thousand dollars each. Alas, I don't think any of those stores even exist today.
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