When a group of guys say that they want to go on a hunt for Bigfoot, there are a host of concerns that come to mind about heading off with weapons to shoot at a mythical creature. None of those concerns appear to have stopped men in Oklahoma this week. Indeed, police say that Omar Pineda, 25, (left) may have thought he had Sasquatch at least when he heard “barking” behind him and fired. He bagged his friend with a shot to the back. Then it gets really weird.
Pineda was arrested and charged with reckless conduct with a firearm and obstruction. However, the police then arrested his father-in-law, Perry Don James, 53, who they found out had thrown Pineda’s gun into a pond on the property. James was arrested and booked on suspicion of a felon in possession of a firearm and destruction of evidence. Then they arrested Pineda’s wife, Lacey Jane Pineda, 22, who was charged with obstruction for telling police that someone else shot at her husband and his friend. That pretty much clears out the Pineda house.
Next to hunting Bigfoot, the idea that they could hide the facts of the shooting seemed rather fanciful with the victim in the hospital and able to talk.
We have often discussed hunting torts and the concept of “Buck Fever” or in this case Big Foot fever. For a prior column, click here.
The injury is a clear case of negligence. All hunting regulations state that a hunter should have visual contact before shooting at an animal. We have previously discussed such hunting accidents (here and here and here and here and here) and “buck fever” cases. Reckless driving is often charged as a crime, but not reckless hunting. Since I have often questioned criminal negligence and criminal recklessness prosecutions, I tend to view these cases as matters for tort liability. However, there is a lack of consistency in how recklessness cases are handled in hunting versus non-hunting cases.
While there is no indication that Simmons will be less than sympathetic and sue, it would make for an intriguing case. Would Simmons’ leaving the campsite be viewed as contributory or comparative negligence. Hunting communities often expect a certain wherewithal from citizens. Consider Maine hunter Donald Rogerson. Mistaking a 37-year-old housewife for a white-tailed deer, Rogerson shot and killed her. Locals insisted that the victim (who had recently moved from Iowa) was to blame because she was wearing white mittens during deer season. And a Bangor, Maine, jury cleared him of manslaughter.
In this case, the negligence of firing without a clear sighting of the animal is magnified that, in all of the accounts of Big Foot, no one has suggested that he barks.
As for Bigfoot, he has to be enjoying this immensely.
Stupid is as stupid does! I am sure that there was no alcohol involved…right??
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Al Qaeda Building Base on the Moon
http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-qaeda-building-base-on-the-moon.html
remember kids, if it has a light saber, it’s a wookiee. if it’s large, hairy and in need of a bath, it’s your father in law.
I believe the below law is a literally another act of abuse of Government Authority, an act of war against the American people by the Oklahoma government with the intent to aid in creating a general lose of confidence of the general public, riots, insurrection, War & public danger to aid the globalist Bank & Insurance companies in their complete destruction of the State of Okla & the Nation!
IE: John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Aside from the completely Unconstitutional act of the establishment of another out of control bureaucratic Administrative Court how many other violations of law can you find in this new Okla Law?
**Oklahoma Session Laws
Oklahoma Session Laws – 2013
Section 230 – [HB 1740] – An Act relating to scrap metal dealers; amending 2 O.S. 2011, Section 2-4, which relates to the powers of the State Board of Agriculture; authorizing the State Board of Agriculture to promulgate certain rules and procedures; amending 59 O.S. 2011, Sections 1422, 1423 and 1425, which relate to the Oklahoma Scrap Metal Dealers Act; etc.
Cite as: 2013 O.S.L. 230, __ __
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http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?id=469097&hits=10333+10332+10331+9307+9306+9305+4682+4681+4680+3744+3743+3742+
And for god’s sake fellow Sasquatchs Never get all yapping in front of your dishwasher or washer & dryer again! 🙂
**Made-in-China kitchen appliances found to contain hidden Wi-Fi circuitry that installs malware on your home network
Natural News | As the author of the insightful, prophetic book “1984,” even George Orwell’s discussed “surveillance society” wasn’t so sinister as to include kitchen appliances. **
http://www.prisonplanet.com/island-of-debris-the-size-of-texas-from-2011-japanese-tsunami-is-headed-straight-for-the-u-s.html
Attention all Sasquatch worldwide: Take cover Now!!!!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/reminder-fukushima-radiation-levels-95-higher-than-reported-tepco-admits.html
Fallin signs bill to keep radiation info secret
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 4:09 AM CDT Updated: Apr 09, 2013 4:09 AM CDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality would be able to keep certain information on radiation sources secret under a bill signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.
Fallin signed ten measures on Monday, including the bill amending the state’s Open Records Act that would allow DEQ to keep secret the information regarding sources of radiation. The bill states such records could be kept confidential if the information could increase the likelihood of “theft, diversion or sabotage of the radiation sources or facilities.”
Another bill Fallin signed Monday would allow defendants to enter pleas for wildlife citations, traffic violations or other municipal traffic ordinances through an electronic system.
Other bills Fallin signed deal with hazardous waste, teachers at public schools, public water systems and repealing duplicative sections of law.
Maybe those peoples lawyers should sue the state for their diminished mental capacity from all the industrial poisoning, Vaccine, Air, Water, Food poisoning.
As you can see gun season for deer in Okla doesn’t start for a couple of weeks so what other excuse were they to use?
http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/seasons.htm
1st the Nazi type US goberment came for the Hobos, but I wasn’t a Hobo so I said nothing. Then the Nazi type goberment came for the Jehovah Witnesses, but I wasn’t a JH so I said nothing.
Then the Nazi type goberment came after the buyer n sellers of scrap metal, but I wasn’t in the scrap metal biz so I said nothing.
Then they came after Sasquatch and their was no one to defend me except a few Darwin Award winner runner ups!
God truly workers in mysterious ways.
After Ray Wallace’s death in 2002, his family admitted that bigfoot was a hoax.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Family-reveals-secret-after-man-who-launched-1102767.php
Apparently, that’s not enough for the chronically stupid. And people wonder why religion and other such beliefs still exist….
Give an okie a gun and a beer…. The world is one big sasguacht…….
Yeah go hunt ducks with Cheney…better?…I think not…
Do race car drivers sue when they get injured? No one wants an accident, but if you get in one, isn’t there a reasonable expectation that it could happen?
Same thing in hunting, but you can get your chances better, I always go shooting with someone first to see how they handle a firearm. And even when they pass that test I never go out with more than 3 people.
Everyone seems to want a risk free life, when in fact your never guaranteed another day….
“Battle not with bigfoot, lest ye become a bigfoot, and if you randomly fire into the abyss, the abyss turns out to be your buddy.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, that does it for me – now I have to give up my hopes of EVER moving back to Bixby Oklahoma.
And, WTF is Sasquatch doing in Oklahoma? Looking for some BBQ?
Dredd, Those Bigfoot costumes were mythically insensitive. Those children need a week @ the Mythology Sensitivity Class in Madison, Wi.
I saw Big Foot on Halloween … several times. It likes candy. Maybe the three Okies should try that next time.
Be it Bigfoot or a curiously specific God, people see what they want to see irrespective of reality.