CJ Van Posted October 16, 2018 Posted October 16, 2018 Reading through the comments it looks like some people here made the conclusion that the mountain biker was mistaken for something else and was shot at. Nowhere in the article does it states that this is the case. It says in the article: "The victim was perfectly identifiable and was on a well-used but hard to access mountain track......" Read the article on BBC and you will see they mention that he was killed by a stray bullet. Maybe we should read through the facts a bit more in detail before we jump on social media with our opinions and conclusions...... Being allowed to hunt in an area that is also used by mountain bikers or any other person of the general public, that is idiotic.
lechatnoir Posted October 16, 2018 Posted October 16, 2018 Reading through the comments it looks like some people here made the conclusion that the mountain biker was mistaken for something else and was shot at. Nowhere in the article does it states that this is the case. It says in the article: "The victim was perfectly identifiable and was on a well-used but hard to access mountain track......" Read the article on BBC and you will see they mention that he was killed by a stray bullet. Maybe we should read through the facts a bit more in detail before we jump on social media with our opinions and conclusions...... Being allowed to hunt in an area that is also used by mountain bikers or any other person of the general public, that is idiotic. ^^^ this... one or the other, not both... FFS!!
BigDL Posted October 16, 2018 Posted October 16, 2018 Killing for sport is reprehensible.What about killing for food?
Grease_Monkey Posted October 16, 2018 Posted October 16, 2018 Reading through the comments it looks like some people here made the conclusion that the mountain biker was mistaken for something else and was shot at. Nowhere in the article does it states that this is the case. It says in the article: "The victim was perfectly identifiable and was on a well-used but hard to access mountain track......" Read the article on BBC and you will see they mention that he was killed by a stray bullet. Maybe we should read through the facts a bit more in detail before we jump on social media with our opinions and conclusions...... Being allowed to hunt in an area that is also used by mountain bikers or any other person of the general public, that is idiotic.Makes alot more sense. The article I read just mentioned the shooting, not the circumstances around it. But yes, a shared hunting/public space is idiotic.
eddy Posted October 17, 2018 Posted October 17, 2018 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7511062/brit-cyclist-mark-sutton-34-shot-dead-raped-sister/
Kranswurm Posted October 17, 2018 Posted October 17, 2018 Killing for sport is reprehensible. You should meet my kitties...
Odinson Posted October 17, 2018 Posted October 17, 2018 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7511062/brit-cyclist-mark-sutton-34-shot-dead-raped-sister/ I utterly despise clicking on a link that takes me to a rag like The Sun. Irrespective, if what the family is claiming is true, then it seems karma did get him in the end.
Grease_Monkey Posted October 17, 2018 Posted October 17, 2018 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7511062/brit-cyclist-mark-sutton-34-shot-dead-raped-sister/Fook. One wonders in the current climate how much of this is true (not saying it did or did not happen). If it did happen as the article suggests then Karma bit the guy in the ass.
Duane_Bosch Posted October 17, 2018 Posted October 17, 2018 Being allowed to hunt in an area that is also used by mountain bikers or any other person of the general public, that is idiotic.Agreed BUT. There's been hunting in that area for hundreds of years. The hunting takes place in the inter season when there are very few residents and even fewer Mountain Bikers around. I've been there in September and there's almost no one around. I saw precisely 2 Mountain Bikers. In the summer there's up to 7000 in Morzine & Les Gets alone. Also. The area where the guy was shot (Montriond) is quite remote by European standards and has only one official MTB trail that runs right next to the road and leads out on to a walking path right next to the lake. It's likely that he was shot on an illegal trail well away from where mountain bikers are generally found. There's little to zero enforcement of property boundaries and people do abuse this. Especially the mountain bikers. This just sounds like a very tragic coincidence and hopefully there isn't a crazy knee jerk reaction like banning hunting and/or mountain biking in the area.
No Hare Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 He ran the Wild Beets Kitchen vegetarian restaurant. The French vegetable revolution has begun! on a more serious note: good luck to all that has been effected by this incident.
Lance Roberts Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 https://www.news24.com/World/News/british-cyclist-killed-in-alps-was-a-monster-mother-says-20181017
leeubok Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 For those interested, I started a new topic to discuss the merits of hunting:https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/179018-hunting-yes-or-no/ And that’s only the human deaths.Hunting belongs in the cave man era and should be banned. How many hunting related deaths would you need to have a winning argument? In this day age hunting is not a necessity, especially not in France or any other first world country. You called?As fate would have it, I’ll actuall be protesting the opening of the hunting season this weekend in The Netherlands. ✌Hunting is both cruel and unnecessary and needs to stop. To manyAnother topic and many OTHER threadsDon’t need a PhD to know hunting accidents and traffic accidents have one common denominator.... HF This isn't the thread to have that specific discussion. If you're interested in having that discussion, feel free to PM me. I'm always open for a constructive discussion on these topics. You could also head over to one of the hunting threads. None of them really discuss the ethics/positives/negatives of hunting, but you could probably steer it in that direction.
SwissVan Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 https://www.news24.com/World/News/british-cyclist-killed-in-alps-was-a-monster-mother-says-20181017You can choose your friends but you cannot choose your family..... indeed a crazy world
IH8MUD Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 https://www.news24.com/World/News/british-cyclist-killed-in-alps-was-a-monster-mother-says-20181017 Die "Huisgenoot" is green with jealousy now . . . . .
Headshot Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 I have only spent a week in the alps, but I saw almost no wildlife whatsoever. The sound or sight of birds was a complete rarity. No animals besides cows and maybe horses, I forget. I see from a goggle that there are some wild animals, maybe wolves and boars and mountain goats, but I didn't see anything like that. I suspect that a French hunt is probably an exercise in frustration for the participants. The alps are strange - not like our mountains at all. There are roads and tracks everywhere as well as little chalets in the middle of nowhere. Very different to the environment where hunting happens here. I always imagine a dry and hot karoo farm with lots of buck and almost no people for hundreds of km.
DJR Posted October 18, 2018 Posted October 18, 2018 .............Headshot......headshot.........why does make me wonder where you were.........have you got a good alibi?
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