is this ironic

[Doc Spock]

heard on news that a helicopter has crashed killing 3 to 5 people on way to pheasant shoot.

Bet the birds are laughing.

[Goodsoulette]

Bad taste in your question but then I expect no less.

I eat pheasant and venison on christmas eve in game pie. The animals are always shot by stepdad. Would it be funny for you too if he died on his way home from milking that morning? Killing for fun is sick, for food is natural Im afraid Doc.

[Doc Spock]

Hi goody, he who lives by the gun dies by the chopper. It is just funny.

I do not think you shoot birds for essential food.

[Babz]

Yawn, yawn...goodnight

[Goodsoulette]

no, you probably prefer a 3 quid chicken from Asda thats been raised with no daylight and sat in its own p1ss for its long life of 7 weeks before you eat it for sunday lunch.

[Doc Spock]

Don't take on so goody, it is just funny that they died on their way to a killing for fun mission.

[Goodsoulette]

Oh and to answer your question properly, no I dont think it is ironic, unless the helicopter crash was caused by pheasanrs.

[country_boy]

I thought that too, would be ironic if a flock of them caused the crash, or even ganged up and pecked a hunter enough to disarm him and with a bit of team work, shoot the chopper down. Now that would be ironic!

[jedimistress]

Only the other day someone here was rejoicing the death of the Doctor who drove into Glasgow airport.

Why is it ok to do that and not this?

The pheasant's life was cheap to the hunters so why should their lives be anymore important? A pheasant has one and when it's gone it;s gone, so do humans. There is no greater thing you can take away from anything than its life.

[Goodsoulette]

teehee, I dont see you on here very often countryboy but you are one of my favourites.

[Shadow Man]

Jedi,

A group of men going on an off to shoot a few birds to feed themselves and their family or even make a few bob and feed someone else,

OR

A group of evil, hate-fuelled camel humping, child abusing, women raping, Allah lovers intent on killing innocent holiday makers all because they live in the free west.

Mmmmmm, I am struggling to spot the difference there too.

[Goodsoulette]

jedi, I truly believe you are wrong as the pheasants life wouldnt have been cheap to the hunter, He would have eaten it. For thousands upon thousands of years people have eaten meat and shooting a free range pheasant is far less barbaric than poultry farming methods of those enjoying a KFC weekly.

I personally would never rejoice the death of anyone or anything and am very grateful for the food I eat. If the person that rejoiced the death of that doctor is on this thread saying its wrong to rejoice the death of a pheasant hunter then you have a point, if not then you dont!

[country_boy]

cheers GS - like your approach to meat, or flesh as it's now called!!

[Goodsoulette]

Its the west country way I think.

[jedimistress]

Most of the pheasants now are NOT free range. They are reared battery style, then released for the shooters when they become a certain age. 35 million a year was the last reported amount.

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/phea sant/ALL///

So now what will you reply when you talk of the joys of free range? Probably just the same as you would previously as that is your line of thought. You shooters and hunters always come out with the same garbage...I love animals but....blah blah blah.

They stand even less chance as they either die by the gun, or having not really adapted to the wild in their formative years, I'd expect some would just die.