Yeehaw! Lets go kill us some deer! Online! Yeehaw, like a true texan!

[Raziaar]

Bah... technology is evil! I didn't even know this was going on. There's apparently a couple, or just one(not sure) company out there that allows online hunting of actual animals, using an actual gun that is controlled via a monitor and internet connection. I guess the person aims the gun like a computer game, and is allowed to fire it which causes the real life gun which could be thousands of miles of way, to fire and kill the animal. Somebody has to be there and they only do the hunts via appointments, but its still sick.

I mean, come on... if you want to hunt some animals which I am still against, get your ass out there and get up and personal. Try snapping its neck with your bare hands, you sissy nerd!

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/li.../18/live_shot_is_the_target_of_critical_fire/

http://www.engadget.com/entry/4720616738437149

And this following quote is from a different forum that copied the text from some news site.

Online Hunting Sparks Outrage in US



The online hunting game allows people to shoot animals simply by clicking a mouse


A new form of hunting which allows participants to shoot wild boar and antelope by a simple click of the mouse is stirring up great controversy in the United States.

Online hunting has outraged animal rights activists, gun advocates and politicians from 14 states, all trying to get the sport banned.

Participants control a video camera and a gun by remote control, carefully monitoring animals on a remote shooting range via the internet.

A click of the mouse from the comfort of your own armchair can discharge a round of bullets. For extra money, the meat or animal's head can be shipped to your home.

Founders and members of *********.com insist the practice is ethical, and in particular allows the disabled to experience the thrill of the sport.

But the concept raises several ethical issues and critics have branded it "pay-per-view slaughter".

The first paid-for live shoot is scheduled to take place on Saturday on a Texas ranch, the only online hunting facility in existence. But activists and politicians are racing to get it banned before it can begin.

The website's founder, John Lockwood, claims opponents simply do not understand how the system works and quite how many safety procedures are in place.

"I am in full agreement that there needs to be legislation and regulation controlling it," he said. "But people are under the impression that this is a slaughtering machine and that's not what it is."

Michael Markarian from the Humane Society told the CSM: "Nobody ever said the wilderness had to be ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant."

And the actual website is this. http://www.*********.com/

For once I am disgusted by us americans. But i'm sure once the technology becomes more readily available if it does, hunters from other countries will utilize it just as willingly.

 

[Ames]

I believe that this was already banned with the reason being that the hunter must physically be on location in order to hunt.

edit:

Disclaimer: Don't have sources to back up.

 

[SimonomiS]

Unless you starred it out yourself, I'm guessing the link has already been banned, thus its been posted meaning its old news.

No shensing sources?! Tut, tut.

 

[Raziaar]

Unless you starred it out yourself, I'm guessing the link has already been banned, thus its been posted meaning its old news.

No shensing sources?! Tut, tut.

bah, I didn't realize it was started out. I just now saw it on the news, I figured it was something obscure enough not to be posted here. I should have known better.

As per the news though, no... it is not banned yet. They are still mobilizing to do so, at least in texas.

 

[bvasgm]

Wow....Just, wow....

 

[xLostx]

lol this shit is BaNaNaS!11!!!11

 

[Direwolf]

I believe that this was already banned with the reason being that the hunter must physically be on location in order to hunt.

edit:

Disclaimer: Don't have sources to back up.

I'll second that. It recently got banned in the US I believe.

 

[Qonfused]

Wow.

That's really sad when you can't get off your butt.

 

[Raziaar]

I'll second that. It recently got banned in the US I believe.

Why did they talk about it in the news this very night here inTexas, saying that it wasn't yet banned? Some states might have already banned it... not texas yet even though even the gun nuts are striving to ban it.

 

[Greatgat]

Been banned I think. There was something about on CNN. Thank Jesus.

 

[ne0_shiny]

Yeehaw! I'd go for the inanimate targets...
No wait, on second thought, i would just do it in real life anyway because i can
(Clay pidgeons, not real animals)

 

[A.I.]

Founders and members of *********.com insist the practice is ethical, and in particular allows the disabled to experience the thrill of the sport.

Killing animals is sport? What is wrong with these people?

 

[Insano]

That's soooo wrong :/