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Well not like that anyway.... crazy guy
Trespassing is one thing but these guys clearly were just trying to get their dogs and get out of there. The killing was totally uncalled for. And the way some people love their dogs he is probably lucky the hunters left their guns before going to retrieve the dogs. He could have just as easily escorted the men and dogs off of his property. Wouldnt have been any problems. Could have saved himself a ton of cash too! I feel sad for the guy that had to stand there while his dog was murdered in front of him.
This is similar to an Ontario case from several years ago. When one of Lawson Maccarthurs Hounds was shot and killed at the base of a tree. Lawson successfully received compensation thru the courts, not the amounts awarded in the states, but substantial by Ontario standards.
I do not believe we would se a payout of this nature in Ontario....The jury must have had some good old country folk on it that understood hunting.
Dick
If it would've been my dog, $145,000 would've been the least of that guy's worries - he wouldn't have made it out of the bush.
That was one sick individual... They should of included some jail time and a shrink evaluation....
Boy things must have changed a bunch in the last few years. Normally Frank Newby's kin would have been wondering "why don't he write/call/email/text?"
It's happened a couple of times up this way . One was a lad who shot a husky or two running deer in the deer yard out Ahmic Harbour way and I think he was fined whatever $3000 for killing the dogs then throwing the carcasses into the Mag River as the school bus came along , another one was just outside Burk's Falls where a kids beagle was doing number 2 on the neighbours porch . I think he was fined $500 plus restitution . It even hit W5 or similar . We definately don't have those kinds of teeth in our judicial system in Ontario but yes it certainly is frowned upon . Another was a horse around Powassan or Nort Bay getting into gardens .
TD
Boy things must have changed a bunch in the last few years. Normally Frank Newby's kin would have been wondering "why don't he write/call/email/text?"
I think you are right SkyPilot. lol