Comfortably seated in your chair, you turn on the computer, enter a hunting field, adjust your mouse on a deer which is grazing quietly and click. The deer falls on the ground. After a few days, a courier rings the door bell, bringing the deer’s corpse, sent by the owner of the virtual hunting land. These animals do exist, having implanted a cip connected to an online stage, therefore, when the hunter presses “the trigger”, the cip emits an intense electric signal which kills the animal. This is the essence of the “online hunting”, business started by a Texan – John Underwood, who did not know how to make good use of his animal populated 133 hectares field.
The investment was of almost 20.000 dollars and a “season ticket” worth thousands of dollars yearly. Good bargain! “This technology offers the hunting possibility for the persons with handicaps or soldiers in missions abroad. Also, the participants are protected for the possible attacks of the animals and safe from the possibility of unintended shooting of another hunter, aspects which have to be first considered before the ethical ones” declares Underwood when the Animals Protection Association revolted against these practices.
After Underwood, probably because the business was so successful, other Americans started similar projects. Last year, another Texan, John Lockwood, launched a site that permits ”users” to kill antelopes, wild boars and other animals which were staying on his property of 80 hectares in San Antonio. Of course, the obtained trophies were sent home immediately after a tax had been paid. Problems may occur, too. Thus, during an online hunt meeting, a user found online at 70 km distance, shut a wild boar while he was grazing at Lockwood’s ranch. But, the wild boar was just injured and the owner of the ranch had to go into the woods to find and kill the wounded animal.
Like I was saying before, this practice started a lot of contradictions within the governmental institutions of
Even the passionate hunters argue over the online hunting, because every person comfortable seated in front of a computer can shoot with accuracy the animals that are practically in semi captivity, without a need to walk many kilometers through forests, plains or swamps.
“We consider that sick ideas spread fast and we wish that online hunting to be interdicted in
i sincerely hope John Underwood and his entire family are killed in an horrific accident, sick bastard.
how fucking stupid, i wanna know what crippled soldier wants to trigger random animals deaths with a click of his mouse and get enjoyment out of it….it’s not online “hunting” it’s online slaughtering, there’s no fun to it, there’s no game, there’s no oneness with nature, there’s no hunt. fuck this bull shit and fuck texas!
This could potentially become much more than an animal rights issue. Many would-be murderers are deterred by the fact that the police, or even some civilian near their target, would shoot back. The true measure of someone being what they would do if they were convinced they were safe from consequences, and the myriad ways of making oneself hard or impossible to trace online, I feel its only a matter of time before some disgruntled player clicksnipes a groundskeeper.
Also, police surveillance cameras in public places have been criticized as ineffective as the police have no physical presence there. Now, since we trust police with guns, and the police control the cameras, I feel people will try to arm those cameras next. Yes, its Orwellian, but not impossible or even implausable given social attitudes today.
Either way, the idea of armed telepresence truly frightens me, and will only become more widespread as this proves to be a successful business model. The idea of murder by game or website is a recurring theme in fiction. Now it will quite likely become reality.
you peta guys got to stop the crap with the lame titles like killem all. sure this kind of online thing is crap, but gimme a break.
are you kidding me? whoever started this crap needs a good kick in the nutsack. the sad part is, you think you came up with a good idea. newflash pal, you’re a fucking moron!
fucking crazy bastards!!! I wish John Lockwood had a cip implemented on him too!!!
Sounds kind of cool. I wonder if they could butcher the animal afterwards and send meat so there is no waste. :)
Just when you think mankind can’t sink any lower … we do.
I’ve read about something like this before years ago, liveshot.com invented by a physically handicapped man. I never thought it would take off, let alone become the science outlined in this article.
It’s one of the lamest things I’ve ever heard of. If for some insane reason you have to kill animals for pleasure, at least do it properly.
This is a prime example of what sadness our world is coming to… what will be next, i wonder. These people need a good smack in the face. Maybe someone should implant a chip into them, then someone can sit at a computer and give them fatal electric shocks at the click of a button. Ok, so maybe not fatal, but just enough to hurt a hell of a lot, so it takes a good 10 or more clicks before they die…
Wonder how long is gonna b before this type of thing is deployed in Iraq ?
HAHAHAHA!!! AWESOME!!!