Fun With Guns, Thank You Kentucky Edition
So this guy in Kentucky has a garden and the rabbits are playing hell with his desire for a endive salad with a bit of raspberry vinaigrette. Maybe a little chèvre sprinkled on top and a garnish of shallots.
Anyway, so the guy goes and gets his air gun and starts mentally planning braised rabbit with mushroom sauce and a perky dry white wine.
And while I will admit that an air gun is not the most humane way to dispatch rabbits, in Kentucky a man has to do what a man has to do to bring the culinary arts into his home.
A neighbor sees what’s going on and apparently believes he is the neighborhood watch captain for the ASPCA.
Rodney Wold
That angered 64-year-old Rodney Wold, a next door neighbor. When Wold saw what his neighbor was doing, he allegedly went into his house and armed himself with an AK-47 assault rifle that was loaded with 19 rounds.
“If you want to hunt something, you can hunt men!” he allegedly said, pointing the gun at the victim.
I do not know if Mr. Wold has an NRA membership card but I do know that he has a bed because that’s where the police found his AK47 – between the box springs and mattress, the world’s safest hiding place.
He was charged with first degree wanton endangerment and second degree needing to calm the hell down.
Thanks to Lindy for the heads up.
Sure, he looks a little goofy – and I imagine his personal hygiene could use some work – but I do feel a soft spot for someone trying to protect bunnies. It’s just the degree. He could have approached it like Hillary Clinton might have – but decided to go all-Putin instead.
1Liver with fava beans and a nice chianti… probably what Wold was after.
2As a proud Son of the Commonwealth, it’s good to see that we’re not taking a back seat to South Carolina and Texas in the idiocy of our loons.
3I have sympath for the guy with the airgun. The “cute bunnies”(cute jackrabbits) have destroyed okra plants down to the ground, pulled up the broccli plants and ate roots and all, Taken bites out of ripening black krim tomatoes (an unforgivable sin), and generally outwitted all my efforts to discouraage them. However, I am now trapping them and moving them across 16 lanes of freeway to a ritzy neighborhood. At least I’m improving their social status.
4Sorry, but all I can think of is the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Elmer Fudd, in full hunting regalia, is singing, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…” to Wagner’s opera.
5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxiv3CBMS4M
Trouble is, Mr. Wold is a dead ringer for Elmer,
so the roles are reversed.
Mr Wold looks surprised they hauled his tukas in.
Anyone know if the AK47 works on squirrels? Just askin’ for a friend.
6Um . . . this guy looks like he’s got Graves Disease. Either that or he is related to the late Betty Davis.
7Mr. Wold looks like the deer caught in the headlights! LOL
8Ok I feel like Captain Obvious here, but I don’t recall Texas permitting the use of deadly force to protect wildlife. Maybe Kentucky does?
9I keep an air-powered BB rifle near the back door & if I happen to see an Eastern Cottontail in the garden, I give it 2 pumps and aim for the rump. I don’t want to do anything worse than startling it. If I ain low & kick up some dirt, that’s enough. I didn’t see any in the garden last year. There were some eating clover in the grass but none in the garden and so far this year they’ve kept their distance. My neighbor is an attorney who has hunted in Africa and he calls rabbits his “backyard saifari”.
10Mr. Wold does not need an AK-47, with or without ammunition. He needs a brain transplant.
11Perhaps Mr. Wold took the squirrel reference personally.
12Whew, talk about a caffeine buzz…ole Rodney’s about a 12 on the Starwhacked scale.
13He has a Second Amendment right to defend bunnies!
14We were overrun with bunnies and extraneous “neighbor” chickens in the garden so my hubby was on the innertubes looking for solutions…we did not get out guns of any kind, I just let the dogs out on the front deck and they ran every critter off without causing anyone distress. It did take a couple of days, but now the doggies just sit on the porch and stand up and bark if unwanted critters head into our two-acre yard. Peace is nice. Peace wins.
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