Two arrested for shooting local Zebras....sickos!

Locust Fork

There is this long stretch of rural highway that connects Locust Fork to the "big city" of Oneonta. Its a 30 minute drive, but the trek is broken up by this gorgeous farm at the 1/2 way mark that has Zebras in a pasture close to the road. Sometimes you can see them....a lot of times they are too far away to see. Everyone slows way down when they drive by to see if the Zebras will be near enough to see.

Some moron shot two of them a while back. It hit everyone out here like it personally happened to their family. They belong to the Sherrod family....but it sure feels like they belong to everyone that drives by there and closely watches for them every day.

I cannot imagine what these guys will be dealing with now that all the local red necks and crazy middle aged women without much to look forward to know what they did......you guys might want to pray for them.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/10/oneonta_man_2nd_charged_in_fat.html

rambo rebel

whew,,,,,,,,,,,, you being in Alabama ........ well I thought you meant the other kind.[8][:0]

remingtonoaks

It said there are sickos out there that could do such a thing. I hope they don't make it to trial

shilowar

They should be put under the jail. Some crimes just shock the conscience. Last week someone one pulled up and stole a tricycle from a front yard, while the child was a few feet away and was watching. The same as shooting zebras, no....but the same kind of low down POS. [V]

mjrfd99

Hang the $#%@ers in public. I'll buy the rope and build the "deck"

spasmcreek

let em loose with a PUBLIC announcement of when and where the general public can wellcome the sh--h---s.......i have a friend who has several buffalo with calves north of town along the highway ...always a treat to go by

Big Twin

WE have a dozen whitetails on my place with some of the pasture roadside behind 10'fence some darn nice bucks over 150". People are always stopping to look at them and often hand feed them. Every couple of years a big buck will get shot right thru the fence, one year the neighbor caught a 55 year old man trying to drag one under the fence after he shot it with a crossbow....YES HE PAID!!!

grumpygy

Lucky we have any elk left. Hear about some guy shooting one and all they take is the antlers.[V]

Mobuck

A few years back there was a flurry of horse shooting in an area 60-70 miles south of where I live. Turned out to be the Son of a wealthy(ish) local politician and a couple of other high school boys. They'd go out driving in the ring leader's fancy pickup, get drunk/drugged up, and start shooting (at) stuff. Horses were easier to hit than the other stuff they shot at.
As might be expected, Daddy Big Bucks threw his monetary and political influence into the system and Sonny Boy got off with restitution. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before his fancy pickup mysteriously caught fire and burnt to cinders. Karma is a beach.

allen griggs

My mom lives up in N. Georgia, way out in the country.
A decade ago some people opened up a kangaroo ranch about 3 miles from my mom's house. They had about 200 acres, big fence all around it, big signs "KANGAROO RANCH."

They supposedly had two dozen kagaroos. They would give tours to school children. Hollywood guys came by and filmed the animals for commercials, it beat flying down to Australia.
But, though I drove past that place hundreds of times, I never saw a kangaroo. They obviously had an interior fence, which you also could not see.
These guys knew damn well that if you could see those animals from the highway, some redneck was going to shoot them.

eastbank

are rurs good to eat? mr myopic.

Sam06

I read about this stuff a lot. There was some nutjob that went to a petting zoo here in NC and shot a tame Elk for its antlers.

Those kids were just joy riding around and looking for trouble. This is how serial killers start out. Random killing of animals then it on the humans, it the way these nuts jobs get their rocks off.

Keep them in the system because they will be back again.

allen griggs

We had a case up here in the Asheville NC area where an orphaned fawn had fallen in with a herd of cattle. The little deer thought he was a cow.
After several years he grew up into an 8 point buck. And every afternoon five or six cars would park along the road to watch the big buck, eating grass right there with the cows.

And, one day, a 55 year old hillbilly pulled up and shot the deer. When the deputies got there, he was out in the meadow gutting the deer.
He got 2 weeks in jail, for trespassing, and for hunting out of season.

But, the US Attorney in Asheville read about the case. He looked the guy up, and arrested him for "convicted felon in possession of a firearm."

The guy had been busted 20 years ago for some felony, had done 5 years in jail, and had completed his probation. Under NC law, he was then entitled to have a rifle for deer hunting.

However, under federal law, he was not permitted to have guns. So the Feds tried and convicted him and he got seven years in the Federal Pen.
At his sentencing, he said "My daddy told me, that when a man sees a deer, he must shoot that deer to feed his family. And that is what I was a-doing."