The hunters have since apologized, saying they made a mistake, and have agreed to hand over the hide for a traditional Mi'kmaq ceremony.

Hot DAMN but I hope they're selling tickets to the 'ceremony'. I've never bought a pay-per-view event in my life but I'd make an exception for that.

George Orr wrote:

When I was a lot younger than I am now, and living in NC, there was an albino stag roaming around the country.  I heard some hunters talking about it and, not coming from a hunting family and being unforgivably ignorant, made a remark about how a white stag was not going to live very long once hunting season started.  I was corrected quickly, sternly and at length by the hunters in the group.  I've learned a good deal more about hunters' culture since then.

Same for me.  I'm also from a non-hunting family, and NYC sure hasn't got much in the way of hunting culture and traditions.  But by the time I got out of high school, I learned from various popular culture sources that there existed a kind of hunters' taboo against killing an albino animal.  I find it hard to believe that at least one of those morons wasn't entirely ignorant of it.  But even so, it takes an especially profound kind of stupidity to slaughter an animal one just has to see in order to know without a doubt is extremely rare.

George Orr wrote:

These guys are worse than idiots, and not just to the "indigenous population."  I bet they wind up having to change their names and move to some other town.

Since they so happily posed for pictures that will function quite nicely as "wanted" posters, they'd better get some plastic surgery while they're at it.

George Orr wrote:

When I was a lot younger than I am now, and living in NC, there was an albino stag roaming around the country.  I heard some hunters talking about it and, not coming from a hunting family and being unforgivably ignorant, made a remark about how a white stag was not going to live very long once hunting season started.  I was corrected quickly, sternly and at length by the hunters in the group.  I've learned a good deal more about hunters' culture since then.  These guys are worse than idiots, and not just to the "indigenous population."  I bet they wind up having to change their names and move to some other town.

I can't see anything happening to these guys.  I used to go to a range out in Pungo, VA.  One week I stepped in the door and found a trophy case with a mounted small white deer.  More like a fawn. I mentioned that it looked a little small, and was told that the shooter claimed it was at least a year old.  I don't see how he could tell.  I asked one of the counter guys, and he just shrugged and said, "Yeah well, someone would have bagged it eventually."

As someone who loves the hunt, this kind of thing makes me sick. It's not like they are lacking in brown meese to shoot. Those 1200 lb rats are everywhere (but in my freezer...)