People Who Should Be Voted Off The Earth
This is from the "you've got to be kidding me" files:

In late January, entrepreneur John Lockwood let a friend become the first "hunter" to kill a confined animal via computer. The friend, Howard Giles, sitting in his home office 45 miles from Lockwood's canned hunting ranch in the Texas Hill Country, squarely lined up the animal in his computer sights and clicked the mouse. A rifle mounted in a blind back on Lockwood's ranch then fired a bullet at a wild hog hunched over a feeding station.

At that point a page should have popped up on Giles' computer screen: Fatality Not Found. According to news reports, Giles' remote-control shot hit the hog in the neck, wounding the animal. Lockwood, on site at the ranch, shot the animal two more times to kill him. live-shot.com claims its first life. Welcome to "hunting made simple, for scumbags, by scumbags".

I know what you're thinking - this must be a joke, right? Sadly, it's not. This is internet hunting, and some idiots out there actually think this is a reasonable replacement for the real thing for those who can't go into the woods and hunt. Take, for example, Dale Hagberg of Ligonier, Indiana - he's paralyzed from the neck down and he wants to kill an animal. Not hunt - just kill - because using a keyboard and mouse to kill an animal is no more of a hunt than choosing a steak at the supermarket. Well, he can now kill animals at will while sitting in front of his computer. Isn't technology wonderful?

Who is behind this techno-atrocity? A San Antonio body-shop estimator named John Lockwood who claims he just wants to provide people with disabilities a chance to hunt. I have an idea - have him wheel the guy from Indiana into the woods where that feeding station is, and I'll buy a membership and two rounds of ammunition. I wonder how much the taxidermist charges for a jackass and a slug.

We can also thank Greg Stevens, Lockwood's partner in this venture, for developing the motorized mount for the rifle.

What do real hunters think? They're as outraged as animal rights groups. "We think hunting was intended to be an outdoor activity," said Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs at the National Rifle Association. "We're really not in support of this concept." John Monson, president of Safari Club International, an Arizona-based sporting group, went even further. Monson said his group would favor legislation to ban Internet-based hunting altogether. "This is not hunting," Monson said.

You can read more here and here and here and here

Three states have already outlawed the Live-Shot concept - Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Texas, Lockwood's own state, is working on a bill to put him out of business.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the first news reports of internet hunting accidents. Stop Canned Hunts.

Because it is a matter of public record, I am including contact information for all involved here. That way, if anyone wants to stop by and "hello" to these scumbags, well, that's your choice, isn't it? Here is the contact information for this disgusting company, which also happens to be the home address of John Lockwood:

info@live-shot.com
Live-Shot
John Lockwood
6735 Connie Mack St
San Antonio, TX 78240 - USA
Tel: 210-215-2817
Fax: 210-681-6156

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Greg D Stevens resides at:
7750 Green Glen Dr
San Antonio, TX
(210) 695-3188
78255-1202

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Dale Hagberg resides at:
818 Townline Rd
Ligonier IN
46767-2527
(260) 894-4041
(This is at the corner with Union Street)

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