Nemont
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Here are some real idiots. WTF they fired 58!!!! shots into a herd of elk. Instead of $23,000 it should be $123,000.
4 men - 2 sets of brothers - fined for slaughter of elk
By The Associated Press
SHERIDAN - Four Sheridan men _ two sets of brothers _ have been fined more than $23,000 and lost their hunting privileges for at least 10 years for slaughtering 10 elk and leaving most of the meat to rot.
Ivan Pierce, 37, and brothers Aaron May, 24, and Michael May, 21, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count each of wanton destruction of elk, waste of game meat and taking an overlimit of elk. Each was assessed $5,200 in fines and restitution, placed on one year of unsupervised probation and stripped of hunting privileges for 10 years.
Pierce's older brother, 48-year-old Albert Pierce, pleaded no contest to the same charges, plus a charge of failing to tag a game animal. He, too, was placed on one year unsupervised probation, plus a 90-day suspended jail sentence; he also was assessed $7,600 in fines and restitution and stripped of hunting privileges for 12 years.
According to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the men acknowledged that on Nov. 10, 2006, they fired a combined 58 shots into a herd of elk. Wildlife agents found nine dead cow elk at the scene and one, with a shattered rear femur, that had to be euthanized. Only about 100 pounds of meat had been recovered from the carcasses. "In my 18 years of wildlife law enforcement, this was far and away the most sickening crime scene I've had to investigate," said game warden Alan Osterland.