Anti-Hunting Couple Just Don’t Get It

This last weekend, I took the plunge and went cold turkey on caffeine. No more deliciously intoxicating Diet Mountain Dew fixes, or silver label Diet Coke pick me ups, just a weekend of roaring headaches, pain pills, and low grade nausea. In between naps and college football games, I did a lot of web surfing, and found a couple of articles that almost sent me over the edge into an apoplectic fit. Just when I think I’ve found the limits of human stupidity, they just go out and manufacture a better idiot.

Today’s better living through stupidity award goes to Mike and Lynn Gorfinkle, who lives outside of Fairfield, Connecticut. Recently, a bow hunter shot a deer on public land and trailed it to a spot about 40 yards from their back deck. When the hunter asked for permission to get the deer, Mike Gorfinkle denied him access, and told him to ‘leave without your dead deer.’ Ms. Gorfinkle, who is also the CEO of Animal Rights Alliance in Redding, then took photos of the dead deer, declaring it, in her opinion, to be a crime scene.

She’s right you know, it is a crime scene. It’s a crime that deer had to die for nothing because of some moon bat animal rights activist. Instead of being harvested by the hunter who shot it, this animal will go to waste because she thinks hunting is inhumane. You ever see a deer that’s starved to death? Now THAT is inhumane. The last predator in the state of Connecticut big enough to bring down a white tail deer is man, pure and simple. If we don’t, disease and starvation will.

Meanwhile, the Gorfinkles have left this dead deer where it fell. It hasn’t been hauled off, or buried somewhere, they just left it there in hopes that other animals would eat its remains. Man, the neighbors have got to LOVE this couple. Can you imagine what your average dog is going to smell like after its spent an hour rolling around in a two week old deer carcass? My eyes are watering just thinking about that possibility! If my dog got out and found this treasure, I’d be bringing him over to the Gorfinkles house for a bath. No way in hell is he getting in my tub smelling like that.

To be fair to the Gorfinkles, I know what it is like to have hunters trespass on your land. I remember seeing hunters come up behind our house with shotguns in hand only to get chased away by my Mom, and I’ve seen deer come up by our house after being chased through a field by four wheel drive pickups with search lights. Trespassers and poachers both deserve a hot place in hell, and I hope the devil himself is stoking the fires awaiting their arrival. But the Gorfinkles don’t get it. They say they want natural predators to thin out the deer, but do they really? What happens when their city dog Muffy gets mauled by a mountain lion, or tore to shreds by a pack of wolves? My wager is on them rethinking their attitude very quickly. But hey, at least they won’t have any hunters in their back yard anymore right?

Oh, and while I am no expert on hunting in the state of Connecticut, I imagine that the hunter who shot that deer will be able to bag another deer in its place. Congratulations, Lynn and Mike. You just caused the death of another animal you claim to be so eager to protect.