Major-leaguer ripped for hunting from air

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Major-leaguer ripped
for hunting from air
Environmentalists demand team order
player to stop shooting from helicopter

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Posted: March 09, 2008
4:48 pm Eastern


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Major League Baseball pitcher is catching heat from an environmental group because of his off-season passion for hunting animals via helicopter.


Florida Marlins pitcher Logan Kensing hunts for animals via helicopter over a Texas ranch


Logan Kensing, a reliever for the Florida Marlins, is targeted by the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition.

"We want the Marlins to make him agree to stop," the group's co-chair, attorney Barry Silver, told the Palm Beach Post.

Silver sent a strongly worded letter yesterday to team owner Jeffrey Loria.

"They have 10 days from Monday to reprimand the player for behavior that isn't one of a role model," he said. "If they don't, we will be persistent. We'll infiltrate the fans and pull out signs. We'll picket. If we're willing to have 27 people arrested, it's obvious we're committed."


Logan Kensing

In a Feb. 21 interview with the Post, Kensing raved about his hobby, saying: "The pilot's pretty good. He gets right next to them. We spot them, he flies in sideways, glides and we shoot them."

Kensing even provided video of one of his chopper excursions as he scoped for animals on a family ranch in Texas.

An outraged Dan Liftman, a green-minded aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, took the clipping to the monthly meeting of Silver's crew.

"I thought it was pretty sick," said Dan Liftman, an aide to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. "That's his fun? Shooting animals from a helicopter? I think that's a little crazy."

Said Silver: "When killing becomes mechanized, it's all too easy. Scientific literature makes it clear that when someone engages in violence against animals, that person is more likely to commit violence against people."

Kensing remains unapologetic in face of the criticism.

"It doesn't bother me," he said. "They can come at me if they want to. We make money off our land. Those pigs destroy everything. Each litter, which happens three times a year, is gonna have 12 pigs, and 60 percent are females."

The native Texan, 25, points out he's not committing any crime, adding he and his teammates once rescued an injured baby raccoon on a Florida golf course, nursing it for four days before turning it over to a shelter.


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I've never tried hunting from a chopper. but I imagine (aside from taking a nice steady shot) that this is somewhat unsportsmanlike like, because of the clearly overwhelming advantage the hunter has over the animal, elevation wise.
 
I think the quarry here is feral pigs that, if like here in Oklahoma, aren't protected by any game laws and are a real menace to farmers and livestock. They root up fields and cause damage to farm equipment and possible broken legs for the livestock.
It's open season on feral pigs all year long as they reproduce like rabbits but are not nearly as cuddly as well as being dangerous.
Most think of them as worse than nuisance animals.
It reads to me like he is just doing what in necessary to maintain the farm/ranch and can afford a helicopter where most can't.
I'd use one if I could afford it to hunt trash species like feral pigs.
Brian
 
Good for him not backing down. Who are these people that think they can tell a grown man what he can and cannot do, within the law, in his own free time, on his own land? Hope his team sticks up for him.

And no, it's not "hunting" in the traditional sense, but it is sporting. I'd imagine the sport is not in killing a pig, but in how many you can kill and in the difficulty of shooting from a helicopter. Gotta keep those pig numbers down.
 
I'd use one if I could afford it to hunt trash species like feral pigs.
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I might also if I was a rancher/farm owner and needed to get rid of these pests.
As just a plain hunter ,I go after them on the ground.Wouldn't use a chopper even if I could afford it.
Unfortunately other trash species these leftist "environmental groups" and leftist pols like the Communist and crook Alcee Hastings don't have the grey cells to think the matter through.
It all emotion and uber-angst to these Marxists.
 
Man! A chopper sure would have come in handy during whitetail season! Dadgum feral pigs kept eating up all my deer corn. I shot as many as I could see, but I can only imagine the work I could have done had I been able to fly by in a chopper.




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And what business is it of some nutjobs here in Palm Beach county? Kinda like Vegas. What goes on in Texas should stay in Texas...
 
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First of all what this man does or does not do outside of baseball is no business of the teams. They have no right to pressure him in any way as long as his activity is legal. Now having said that I find that shooting animals from a helicopter is not hunting, its just killing. A chore to be done sometimes out of necessity but certainly not a sport.
 
Scientific literature makes it clear that when someone engages in violence against animals, that person is more likely to commit violence against people.
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You know, he's right. Kensing habitually hurls projectiles at other human beings and, unless the batter intervenes, almost invariably hits the man crouching behind the plate. I'm amazed we haven't locked him up already, if you want to know how I feel.
 
Said Silver: "When killing becomes mechanized, it's all too easy. Scientific literature makes it clear that when someone engages in violence against animals, that person is more likely to commit violence against people."
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Dang! I guess I should be more careful hanging around as many hunters as I do. [/sarcasm]

Good grief this is the most emotion hyped nonsense I've heard all day...(I'd say week, but there seems to be a pretty good supply of this kind of crap)
 
I wonder if they cried this loud when the State of Kansas and the Feds did this very thing over Clinton Wildlife Area here in Kansas last year?

I don't remember 27 people arrested over it,either.
 
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They have 10 days from Monday to reprimand the player for behavior that isn't one of a role model," he said. "If they don't, we will be persistent. We'll infiltrate the fans and pull out signs. We'll picket. If we're willing to have 27 people arrested, it's obvious we're committed."
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That'd be the whole crowd at a marlins game:)
 
I wonder if they cried this loud when the State of Kansas and the Feds did this very thing over Clinton Wildlife Area here in Kansas last year?

I don't remember 27 people arrested over it either.
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Ouch, good one!

Hey if you can hit stuff from a helo as long as it is legal, more power to you.
 
we have a feral pig problem emerging not too far from here. if i had a chopper i'd do it too. maybe rent it out to others for them to shoot em too
 
At least he isn't using a mini-gun on them. Shooting something moving from a moving vehicle is a challenge.
 
"Said Silver: "When killing becomes mechanized, it's all too easy. Scientific literature makes it clear that when someone engages in violence against animals, that person is more likely to commit violence against people."

Well, it's factual if and only if by "someone" you're talking about young people doing the torture thing. Otherwise? It's a lie.

The outpatients are out in force, looks like...

Art
 
I have no problem with hunting from helicopters or the verboten long range hunting. As long as they don't take more than they're allowed I don't think the animal would know the difference. I just don't think it would be any fun.
 
I think it would be a bucket load of fun! And damn sporting, too, I'd wager! They shoot coyotes that way here (out of a plane, not a chopper), and the guys I've talked to that did it said it was a grin! And I'll bet it was! Incidently, they're shooting the coyotes for the same reason--control.
 
RedLion, feral hogs oughta have a bounty on 'em. There's no limit to how many you can kill--just as there's no limit to the destruction they wreak on croplands.

There's been a photo floating around the world of email, taken from a deer blind by a corn feeder. Over 120 hogs under and around the feeder. And that's just in one pasture...

For a farmer or rancher, there's no sport involved. The use of a helicopter makes perfect sense, for those who can afford it. Think of it as hunting 200-pound rats, but you gotta find them before you can shoot them. Walking around a several-thousand-care pasture is a rather slow and fatiguing process.
 
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