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February 06, 2009 |
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Love Joseph
FOUND by Jessica
in Cambridge, Boston, MA
I found a wad of folded up photographs on the ground while walking home. They were fairly aged, as though someone had been carying them around a long time in every kind of weather, really cherishing them and what they stood for.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Can you actually kill a deer with a handgun? Well, maybe if it's tame and you hold the pistol behind its ear...
This guy looks like the plastic surgeon "Stosh" from MASH--Hawkeye's friend who does a nosejob for an enlisted man and spends the episode looking for the fictitious "Barracuda."
Is hunting with a pistol legal?
Hellooooooooooo, panty crickets! The least this guy could do for the deer is flip it the bird before shooting it.
Can anyone read the love note on the back?
Click magnify. Looks like it was written in blue crayon....
OMGosh! First I see a photo of the son I never had....then up pops the picture of my husband! Even down to the receding hairline!
Yes, not only can you hunt deer with a pistol, there is actually a legal pistol-hunting season. We're talking high-powered handguns here. This hunting method requires more skill and patience than using a shotgun, because you have to wait in a freezing tree stand for hours, (hoping the animal doesn't catch a whiff of your human stink) for a deer to come close enough for a carefully placed shot to bring it down.
Pul-leeeezzzzzeee, let's not make this an anti-hunting forum today. Vegetarians & Peta-freaks just don't get it. These are animals that breed prolifically, almost always giving birth each year to twins or triplets.
Without controlling their populations, they would soon be like hoards of giant rats ravaging the farm crops, destroying gardens, totally-out cars while maiming or killing drivers/passengers, carrying Lyme disease-spreading ticks, and falling victim, eventually, to wasting diseases that occur when wildlife become over-populated in an area. Also, a buck in rut is a potentially dangerous animal, known to gore and sometimes kill hunters, so hunting on the ground (or just walking out to your tree stand) can be hazardous.
For the record, I am totally against trophy hunting: killing for a spectacular rack (antlers)and a head to taxidermy, while leaving the meat lying in the woods to rot. I hate those SOBs that do that.
For us, venison is our poor man's beef. We never buy hormone-laced beef from the store. Nature provides what is natural. And it's hard work butchering the meat & packing it for the freezer or smoking it. This meat is virtually fat-free protein and delicious if prepared properly. In Native American tradition, we give thanks to the animal that has been taken for our sustenance.
And now that everyone hates me...I'd like to ease those minds that are worried about catching pantry crickets from deer. Not gonna happen. Human pubic lice is just that: spread by dirty humans.
I apologize for the length of that last post. I tend to get carried away, but I know the type of bleeding-heart response this type of find will always generate.
Mountain girl, if i ever come to the US i'm looking you up.
I could go some fresh meat. =)
Well, the back of the photo may indicate a connection with Joseph, but I think he was the photographer.
The snapshot is clearly of Deer Louise (l.) and Lance (r.) enjoying a now-quiet afternoon in the woods.
I think we can assume by the impish grin on Lance Joseph's face that this picture is a joke.
"Hey, look at the monster buck I bagged with this here itty-bitty cap pistol." I don't think he could shoot his way out of a paper bag with that puny firearm.
Lance had to hold the pistol in the photo because no one would believe he actually killed Deer Louise with that knife on his belt.
I offer as evidence the fact that his shirt was white before Louise's blood got on it, and his pants were grey before he got scared and crapped all over himself.
@Geek: Well that explains it all! I KNEW the gun was a fake. Only one thing bothering me, though: Deer Louise wouldn't have (couldn't have) a rack like that! So it can't be our Deer Louise.
Unless....she's a cross-dresser.
Odd that everything in the photo has that reddish overlay except Joseph's face, neck and hands...which are normal flesh colour. Even the deer's antlers are reddish.
I dunno, Mountain Girl, I've seen better racks than that on girls down at the pub on the Common...why shouldn't Deer Louise have a rack?(And before you get your knickers in a twist, it's a joke. I do know that does don't have cornaments.)
Wait a sec! You're telling me that female deers can't get horny?
@ O. Womble: Don't you mean "hornaments?"
@ Librarian: I suppose the does might get horny now and then, but it's just not right for them to flaunt those racks in our faces like that! It's just not natural! In fact, I think it's downright sick. It's like they're just taunting the bucks to fight with them. And if they're especially well-endowed, well you might as well call it suicide. You saw what happened to Deer Louise?
Give me all your money or the deer gets it.
Mt. Girl: Prolific breeding problem aside, he does look very pleased (I don't think it's because of his small gun). Death is never a "joke." Why the need to memorialize it photographically? I see your point about population control but it doesn't necessarily fit here. I like a lot of the finds here though!
That's not Lance - no stripes.
definitely an awkward kid, posing wierdly, for sure.
@ Frank in Sense: I find posing for pix with a hunter's kill a bit macabre myself. We don't have taxidermied heads in our home, because we don't shoot trophy bucks. The meat of a buck in rut is downright nasty, fit only for dog food, IMO. And we don't take photos of ourselves with the wild game food we harvest. To me, that's about as silly as posing for a picture with the dish of lasagna you just baked.
But for many hunters, a photo with that prize buck, or moose or whatever, is a big deal. Hunters are a passionate breed. They take pride in their hobby/skill, which they've perfected through years of practice. Many of these folks live in the city. They save all year for that week's vacation at some hunting lodge, and maybe they go away empty-handed. If they're successful, they just have to have a picture with which to remember their adventure. And I think they have a right to that, if that's what blows their skirt up.
Lance Joseph here looks pleased, yes. I've yet to see a picture of a hunter cuddling a dead animal to his breast and weeping. Or one praying over his prey.
Whether we agree or not, and we're all entitled to our opinion.....it's different strokes for different folks.
Augh :(
...Poaching? Me? No officer... That's just a really big flash light...I was driving along and this Buck jumped out and I hit'em with my '84 Ford Escort - but he weren't dead - so I finished him with my hand gun. Funny it left no marks on the car - ain't it? What? No. I don't have a concealed weapons permit? What... ahhh.. yes I have a record ... Yes. I am a convicted felon. Ahh.. yes I am on the sex offender registry?? Aaah... wellll, yes. Yes, I am sir... But I don't like to think of my self as a statutory rapist. First off she was my cousin.. family and all. Secondly she looks about 27. Will I put the gun down and come with you peacefully? Well I'm gonna have to think about that one...
Wow, mountain girl.. you GO. Uncle Ted* would be proud.
(*Nugent, of course.)
Pul-leeeezzzzzeee, let's not make this a pro-hunting forum today.
@ Other White Meat: Point well taken. The Defense rests it's case.
P.S. The Motor City Madman has already asked me to be his running mate when he runs for President in 2012.
"La Gloire de Mon Père" or "My Father's Glory" .. your comments about posing with dead animals made me think of that movie. Great movie. French, with subtitles.
I don't like the assumption that I "don't get it" just because I'm a vegetarian, or, I guess, a "PETA freak." Sweeping generalizations and preemptive strikes aren't my thing.
..."I know the type of bleeding-heart response this type of find will always generate."
Is that the preemptive strike to which you refer, Lauren?
Too bad hardly anyone could get onto Found yesterday to respond to that rubbish.
So what is the complete opposite of the "bleeding heart response"? Well that would be mountain girl's blah blah blah. Did Holly move to an Illinois cornfield, or what?
The red tint looks like a redscale photo - i.e. the back of the negative was exposed. Given the subject, I'd guess this was accidental and not artistic.
http://fmphotocourses.blogspot.com/2007/07/how
D'oh, it truncated my link! Bah. Try this:
http://swcurl.com/ro4QK
Sigh.
Mountain Girl, congratulations. Not since the days of SALT has a regular here so vigorously defended and exercised their right to be a heartless jerk two days in a row.
I like the other version of this pic better, the one where its flipped and the deer is holding the gun to the mans head instead...more fun!