Idiot Hunter

[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

The VA set up my hospital bed next to the window in my living room so I could look out the window up into the woods. So there I was yesterday sitting up doing some isometrics when two spike horn white tails came wandering by about 35 feet from the house. About 30 minutes later some idiot, not wearing any protective coloration at all came sneaking close to the house walking in the opposite direction backtracking in the general direction from which the deer had come. He was sort of doing the Alabama high step which made it look more like he was trying not to step in deer droppings rather than attempting to quietly stalk his prey. This clown was really swift, burning cigarette, walking down wind from the direction the deer had come and rifle barrel sort of pointed at his leading foot. What really pissed me off is that there is a law in this state that you are not allowed to discharge a weapon within 400 feet of a residence and he was obviously oblivious to the fact that he was only about 50 feet from my home. So I hauled my sorry, broken butt out of the bed, grabbed the walker, got into the wheel chair and grabbed a couple of cooking pots and heading for the back porch. I got the door open and as far out through the doorway as I could and started banging the pots together and in my payday formation gentle voice told him to "Get the f... off my property." Had I been able to get to my pistol I would have put a few rounds up into woods. My hope was that he would be startled enough to shoot himself in the foot, however he just sort of disappeared over the ledge-perhaps the lad fell on his head.

Jack Moroney