Slain deer station near playground draws fury (Not really, but The Globe needed a headline)

[Ian David]

Slain deer station near playground draws fury
By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff | November 28, 2006

And you thought "Bambi" was traumatic.

Upton Police Chief Thomas Stockwell and town officials lashed out at state wildlife officials yesterday over a check-in station for slain deer located next to a town playground filled with children.

The station, which monitors the region's deer hunt, weighed and probed 30 cervine corpses, some 20 to 30 feet from the playground. "There was a pool of blood in the parking lot," Stockwell said. "When I voiced my concern that it really wasn't an appropriate place to be, the response I got -- which I thought was a little disturbing -- was 'that's your opinion, and we're going to stay.' "

Stockwell acknowledged yesterday that police received one complaint about the location of the check-in station but felt strongly enough to go there and talk to state biologists himself on the first day of the state's two-week shotgun hunting season. An official at the town selectmen's office said he received several inquiries about the check-in station.

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LeClaire said it was no big deal. "As I was over there, the biologists did say they were seeing some children all excited about it," he said. "The biologists said they had a lot of great comments. There's been at least 40 to 80 kids all day playing, and if they were disgusted, I'm sure they would have left."

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/11/28/slain_deer_station_near_playground_draws_fury/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News

[MemphisTiger]

1. Check in stations aren't always in the most well thought out places

around here many gas stations are checkin stations, so I could have a 10 point buck in the back of my truck next to a minivan full of kids. I choose not to go to those stations to check in my game for that very reason.

The best place in my opinion is to take it to the processing plant to have it processed and checked in at the same time.

[LWolf]

2. If the check in station is in an area

that deer live in, that people hunt in, most of those kids have seen dead deer before. They see them all the time on the side of the road, victims of collisions with traffic. They may see the deer their family hunts, and they may have gone on those hunts with family.

I lose a bunch of students to family hunts every fall.

Of course, not being a hunter myself, I didn't even know there was such a thing as a "check-in station." :silly: What is the purpose?

[MemphisTiger]

7. The purpose is to check in the kill with the state...

with the game warden and make sure you're getting the proper deer. You can only bag so many per season. Around here it's 3 for gun season and 2 for bow season. They keep up with what you have killed.

[LWolf]

14. Makes sense.

Do you have to check in if you don't get any? I did some googling; it looks like the check stations in my state are to check for CWD, which has supposedly not reached this state.

[MemphisTiger]

16. No, if you don't get anything there is nothing to check

in. Might tell you better luck next time.

[bryant69]

3. LeClaire went on to explain his brilliant new idea for a theme park

Animal Carcass Land. "Yes, I envision a whole kingdom of animal carcasses for kids to play around and near. Biologists say that kids get excited around Animal Carcasses and who am I to argue with a bioligist."

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[ThomWV]

4. Its a "Game Checking Station" not a "Slain Deer Station"

See, its not just the Republicans who misuse language to twist perception.

[Cocoa]

5. won't someone please think of the children!

[ThomWV]

6. Take Them To A Grocery Store - Show Them The Hamburger

Tell them it is meat, tell them it was once a living animal, tell them it had blood in it, tell them a man killed the animal, tell them men eat meat. Then take them to McDonalds ....

A deer, a cow, a hog. I kill it, you kill it, the butcher kills it. You tell me the difference.

[MemphisTiger]

8. Well not everybody likes to think of it that way eventhough

they know where it comes from. It's fine by me, fewer people in the woods with me that might shoot me by mistake or run off the deer or turkey that I want to hunt.

[luckyleftyme2]

9. a shame

its ok to sell drugs,teach your children how to ride the system but teach them any type of survival or where food(meat) comes from is wrong?
lets think of a few positive things that could come out from this exposure.(esp if your a city kid)
you see a deer,you see how we try to check for disase in the animal.you find out people hunt for deer .you decide to hunt when you growup.
the benifit if your 18 and in iraq you can't learn in boot camp. you know that if need be you can kill. a weapon in your hand before military service has helped you survive.
that kid whose mama wouldn't let him hunt got killed in less than 30 days. your reflexes saved you.
hunting is only what you make it.animal control :hunting is one of the tools used to keep
animal population in check.

think before you answer!
a survivor

[AlienGirl]

15. "teach your children how to ride the system"--where'd that come from?

Who, exactly, is saying it's okay to sell drugs and "teach your children how to ride the system"? That is arguing against something that is not there and projecting onto the opponents of the deer stand something they have not said.

Tucker

[TlalocW]

10. What does McDonalds and meat have to do with each other?

Ba-dum-ksh! Thanks! I'll be here all week.

TlalocW

[Javaman]

11. Just put up a sheet to block it....a nice white bloody sheet.

:evilgrin:

[Ian David]

12. Update: Deer checking station now next to Boy Scouts selling xmas trees

"Look, it's Rudolph! Mommy... Mommy... what's wrong with Rudolph?"

UPTON, Mass. -- Upton's police chief says a new location for a check-in station where hunters bring dead deer is still in view of a town playground.

Thomas Stockwell says it's now also next to an area where Boy Scouts are selling Christmas trees and wreaths on weekends.

Police got a complaint yesterday because the deer carcasses waiting for the weigh-in were right next to the playground.

Today, the check-in station is about 50 or 60 feet closer the VFW post where it's been located for the two-week shotgun hunting season. Stockwell says that's no real improvement.


More:
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO35241/

[Javaman]

13. I heard that ophans and nuns are also setting up next to them as well...

:rofl: