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8 July 2008
POTTER VALLEY, Calif
Woman Shoots Herself While Trying to Kill Mice.
A Mendocino County woman who was
trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up
shooting herself and another person.
The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum
revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of
her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff's
officials said.
But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it
struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman's kneecap,
bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old
man in the trailer and grazed the man's groin before ending up
in his coin pocket.
Authorities did not release the shooting victims' names.
The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.
We are proud and privileged to pay tribute to Countryside
Campaigner and Master of Foxhounds David Latham who sadly
died recently whilst travelling through India. David, who
lived in Cornwall, drowned in a swimming accident in the
Arabian Sea off Goa while celebrating his 30th wedding
anniversary with his
wife Jo.
David was an extremely well known and admired figure in the
hunting world and was the south west chairman of the
Countryside Alliance for many years. In 1997 he was
instrumental in organising the march from Penzance to London
as part of the protests against the hunting ban...
West Yorkshire pilots lost control in bad weather.
A father, his son and two friends were killed after their
helicopter crashed in appalling weather, moments after trying
to make an emergency landing, investigators said...
Peter Patrick, 68, from Arkholme, near Carnforth, Lancashire,
was with his son, Anderson Patrick, 37, of Askwith, West
Yorkshire, who was at the controls of the helicopter, along
with their friends, Gary Priestley, 39, of Hipperholme,
Halifax, West Yorkshire, and Tim Newburn, 39, of Brighouse,
West Yorkshire. Mr Patrick Snr, a successful businessman, had just
started his retirement and was a former Master of the Vale of
Lune Hunt in Lancashire andale Hunt in Yorkshire...
All four men had set off on August 3 last year on a
hunting trip to Scotland aboard the Robinson R44 II Raven
helicopter.
Walker still unconscious after fall.
One of the country's top jockeys had not regained consciousness last
night after a
pig-hunting accident in Taranaki that left him fighting for his life.
Michael Walker, 24, was carrying a pig during a hunting trip in Okau,
northeast
of New Plymouth, on Tuesday when he tumbled down a 10m bank.
Richard Lower Dies at 78; Transplanted Animal and Human
Hearts.
Dr. Richard R. Lower, whose daring heart surgeries on animals
in the 1950s helped pave the way for the first successful
transplant of a human heart in 1967, died on May 17 in Twin
Bridges, Mont. He was 78.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his family said.
As a surgical resident at Stanford University in 1959, Dr.
Lower transplanted part of a dog's heart to a second dog,
which lived for eight days, shattering a previous survival
record of seven hours. He was working with Dr. Norman E.
Shumway, who became a towering figure in cardiac surgery and
eventually oversaw the transplanting of 800 human hearts.
One innovation was to leave in place sections of the
recipient heart's upper chambers, which shortened the
duration of the operation. But when an infection took hold,
Dr. Lower and Dr. Shumway euthanized the dog and drew a
prescient conclusion: that difficulties in transplants would
no longer be technical or tied to problems in surgery so much
as to conquering infection and the patient's immune response.
Dr. Lower (pronounced LAU-er) continued to experiment with
animal transplants after moving to the Medical College of
Virginia, in Richmond, in 1965. A rush to apply the procedure
in human cases of severe cardiac disease and malfunction was
inevitable, and a South African surgeon, Dr. Christiaan N.
Barnard, performed the first successful human heart
transplant in 1967. Dr. Barnard had visited Dr. Lower's
laboratory in 1966 and studied the Shumway-Lower approach and
technique.
Fatal fall out hunting.
An 84-year-old huntswoman suffered a fatal fall from her
horse when it tried to jump a barbed-wire fence, an inquest
heard yesterday.
Sheila Castle fell headfirst after her horse collapsed on its
stomach in front of other members of the Dunston Harriers, of
which she was senior acting joint master.
Mrs Castle, of Hellesdon Mill Lane, Norwich, was passionate
about horse-riding and hunting and was one of the oldest
active masters of the hunt in the country.
The hearing in Norwich was told that the retired teacher was
experiencing difficulties with her horse, Indi, at the
Dunston Harriers event at Snetterton on February 10.
Witness statements, read by Greater Norfolk coroner William
Armstrong, described the horse twice refusing to jump. "She
looked fairly cross with Indi when he refused a second time,"
said witness Rebecca Burgess.
She added that the horse veered towards a wire fence and Mrs
Castle didn't make any attempt to stop him jump it. "The
horse came down on his stomach and she fell headfirst on to
the ground," she said.
Another witness, Alexander McKinnon Smith, said that on the
third attempt at the jump, Indi had veered off and "tried to
go through a barbed-wire fence".
The horse managed to get up and run away and did not touch
Mrs Castle once she was on the ground.
Mrs Castle was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University
Hospital, where she later died of head injuries. Mr Armstrong
recorded a verdict of accidental death.
At the time of her death, Stephen Vincent, chairman of the
hunt, described Mrs Castle as an "insti-tution" who had been
with Dunston Harriers for more than 35 years.
A mother of three sons, she was a vociferous campaigner
against the ban on fox hunting.
On Boxing Day last year she led the hunt from Wymondham
Market Place after a speech in which she thanked the crowd,
farmers and landowners for their support.
BIG BEAR CITY- A bear attacked and killed an animal trainer in Big Bear on Tuesday afternoon. The San Bernardino County Fire Department confirmed a call came in around 2:40 p.m. from Predators in Action, Inc., indicating there was a bear attack. Sheriff's deputies from the Big Bear Lake Station went to Predators In Action, at 43676 Eagle Rd., responding to a report of an animal attack. San Bernardino County Fire personnel were first to arrive on scene, where they confirmed the death of a trainer working with a bear. According to authorities, three trainers were outside the facility in a fenced-in area training a 5-year-old grizzly bear. The bear lunged at one of the trainers and bit him on the neck. The trainer, 39-year-old Stephan Miller from Canyon Country, died at the scene. Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Phelps said the bear was a 5-year-old male named Rocky. The Predators in Action Web site says Rocky is 7-and-a-half feet tall, weighs 700 pounds and appeared in a scene in "Semi-Pro" in which Will Ferrell's character wrestles a bear to promote his basketball team. Pepper spray was used to subdue the bear and there were no other injuries. The bear was confined at the animal sanctuary. The Department of Fish and Game will decide the bear's fate after an investigation, Tiffany Swantek, a spokeswoman for the Big Bear Sheriff's Station, told the San Bernardino Sun Tuesday. Randy Miller is a stuntman and the operator of Predators in Action. Stephan Miller is Randy's cousin, said San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beavers. Predators in Action Inc. trains exotic animals such as lions, tigers and leopards for films and photo shoots. The Web site for the company described itself as having "a perfect safety record with absolutely no accidents or mishaps."
The Belle Plaine man who fatally shot his 8-year-old son in the chest while turkey hunting Saturday did not have a license to hunt. Anthony Klaseus, 39, paid $3 to enter a lottery and was drawn for a license. But he failed to buy the $18 license to hunt legally, said Sibley County Sheriff Bruce Ponath and authorities from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. It's one of the most common violations, said Mike Hammer, DNR education coordinator in the enforcement division. The DNR can cite violators directly only if they're caught in the act, he said, but can investigate cases after the fact and forward them to the county attorney's office for possible charges. Ponath said the license violation is part of the larger investigation, which his office hopes to complete in seven to 10 days. Klaseus was hunting with his son, Hunter, in a Sibley County farm field. He told his son, Hunter, to stay put as he snuck into nearby woods, but the boy followed. His father mistook him for a turkey and shot him with a 12-gauge shotgun. Both were wearing camouflage gear, which is legal for turkey hunting. Ponath said one of the property owner's sons has said Klaseus didn't have permission to hunt there. Authorities are investigating whether another of the owner's sons may have granted permission. Hunters can hunt on private, non-agricultural land without asking permission if the property does not have "no trespassing" signs posted or if they have not been told by the owner to stay off. Klaseus does not have any hunting or fishing violations on record, according to the DNR. Hunter's funeral was held Wednesday. He would have turned 9 next week.
Hunter falls to death from cliff while setting turkey blind. A turkey hunter fell to his death in
southwest Spokane County, apparently while setting up a blind
on a 40-foot cliff.
Sheriff's deputies say the 71-year-old Cheney man left home
Saturday or Sunday to assemble the turkey blind. A neighbor
became concerned when he failed to return by Monday afternoon.
The neighbor found the man's body about 5 p.m. at the base of
a cliff on the east shore of Badger Lake, south of Cheney.
Deputies say they found a hammer near a stake by the edge of
the cliff, indicating the man was driving the stake into the
ground and lost his footing, became dizzy or fainted.
Two die in Spain from human form of mad cow disease. Two people have died in Spain from variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease,
the health department of the regional Castilla-Leon government
said on Monday.
The Carlos III Institute, which specializes in epidemics, said
it had logged three deaths from vCJD since 2005, including
those announced in Castilla-Leon. A health department
spokesman from the northern region said one person had died of
vCJD 15 to 20 days ago, and one in late December or early
January.
Juan Jose Badiola, the director for Spain's National Reference
Centre for Transmitted Spongiform Encephalopathy, said there
was no cause for alarm. "It is most likely that both victims
contracted the disease more than eight years ago," Badiola
said in a report by Europa Press.
The European Union in January 2001 banned the use of animal
and bone meal in animal feed in order to prevent the spread of
mad cow disease and vCJD. The National Health Service in
Britain, where several deaths from vCJD have been reported,
says on its Web site that similar infections take between 15
and 20 years to become active.
Mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, first
emerged in Britain in the 1980s and has been found in herds in
several European and other countries. Scientists believe it is
transmitted through infected meat and bone meal fed to cattle
and may cause vCJD in humans.
Boat capsizes in Canada seal hunt, three reported dead.
CAP-AUX-MEULES, Canada (AFP) -- A fishing boat carrying seal
hunters capsized Saturday in ice-covered waters off Canada's
east coast, a fisheries department official said, with
Canadian media reporting three dead. According to seal hunters
working in the region, the accident left up to four people
dead, but officials could not immediately confirm the toll.
Canadian media reported that rescue teams recovered the bodies
of three sealers and were continuing a search for a fourth...
Conditions are treacherous this year, with several boats
caught in ice up to 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) thick on the
gulf.
21 March 2008
Polk County, FL.
Turkey Hunter Mistakenly Shoots, Kills Camouflaged Man In
Tree. A camouflaged hunter sitting in a tree
was accidentally shot and killed Friday by another hunter
trying to shoot a turkey, according to the Polk County
Sheriff's Office.
Investigators said Michael Shane Hasting, 40, was hunting with
his 6-year-old son at the River Ranch Acres Hunt Club Friday
and spotted a turkey.
Hasting fired at the turkey and moved forward to see if he hit
the bird. He then discovered that he accidentally shot Randall
Williamson of Pompano Beach. Williamson was in the wooded area
sitting in what is known as a squatter's chair and wearing
camouflage clothing and mesh over his face, according to a
Polk County sheriff's news release. He was also holding a
camouflage shotgun...
Man accidentally shot with arrow while hunting.
A Northland man had to wait in dense bush for over an hour
while emergency services tried to reach him after he was shot
with an arrow while goat hunting this morning.
The 24-year-old man was hunting with friends for goats in
dense bush near Wellsford, when another hunter accidentally
shot him in the chest...
Jury Convicts Teen for Hunting Accident.
A jury has convicted a Lamoille County teenager for shooting
another hunter.
Police say 18-year-old Eric Patch was bird hunting in Hyde
Park two years ago, when he shot another hunter out of a tree
stand. Andy Gates was hit with at least three-dozen pellets.
He survived.
Patch told police he thought Gates was a partridge.
A jury convicted Patch on aggravated assault charges. That
carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. No hunter has
ever gone to jail in Vermont for a non-fatal hunting accident.
Father shoots son in hunting accident.
A 25 year old man was killed yesterday when he was hit by a
stray shot, believed to have been fired by his father, during
an organised hunt in woods in Valdeazores, near Los
Navalucillos in the province of Toledo at around 4pm
yesterday afternoon.
Over the last three months, three hunters have been killed
and a fourth seriously injured in similar incidents.
On the 24th November a man was killed near Tarragona during a
hunt in which the victim's father was also participating.
Two weeks before that, a 58 year old man was injured in Osuna
(Sevilla), the same day that two men accidentally shot
themselves with their own weapons in separate accidents in
Castellón province.
An 84-year-old huntswoman and "stalwart of the countryside"
who campaigned tirelessly against the hunting ban died Sunday
morning after falling from her horse.
Sheila Castle, who pledged in December to ensure that hunting
survived long after the politicians who banned it, was badly
injured while out with Norfolk's Dunston Harriers for whom
she was acting hunt master.
Witnesses said her horse, Indi, shied at a jump and became
entangled in barbed wire.
Mrs Castle was airlifted to hospital in Norwich after the
accident near Snetterton on Saturday lunchtime, but doctors
said that her chances of survival were slim and her life
support machine was turned off at 10am yesterday.
Friends said that although her husband Bill, aged 83, a
retired dentist, and three adult sons Winstone, Laurence and
Henry, were still numb with shock, they took comfort from
knowing that their mother had died doing what she loved."There aren't many of us who get our dying wish but that was
Sheila's," said family friend Helen Yallop. "To be following
the hounds, in the hunting field, it's what we'd all wish
for."
She said that Mrs Castle, from Hellesdon, Norfolk, had been
determined to keep the sport going after the ban.
During a speech to a record number of supporters who turned
out on Boxing Day last year, Mrs Castle said: "I can assure
you that we intend to stay and we shall be here long after
the politicians have written their memoirs."
Margaret Wilkins, whose daughters grew up hunting alongside
Mrs Castle, said: "We are all terribly sad but Sheila would
not want that. Instead, we will plan a huge hunt meet next
week to remember her the way she would have wanted. She will
pass into local legend."
Rider, 49, dies after hunt fall.
A Shropshire man who fell from his horse while out on a hunt
has died in hospital four days after the accident.
Mike Slater, 49, was airlifted to hospital with a spinal
injury after the accident in Norton in Hales, Market Drayton,
on Saturday.
He was riding on a legal trail hunt with the North
Staffordshire Hunt, his family and friends said in a
statement.
Mr Slater ran Aston Manor Liveries with his wife Debbie. He
died in hospital in Staffordshire on Wednesday. He had been
involved in another riding accident in 2003, but made a full
recovery...
Quorn senior joint-master Joss Hanbury suffers neck injury.
Quorn senior joint-master Joss Hanbury was admitted to
hospital with a severe neck injury after a heavy fall while
hunting with the Quorn on Monday, 28 January, near Old Dalby.
Joss, also well known as a leading team chase rider, suffered
the fall over a timber fence and was taken by ambulance to
the Queen's Medical Hospital, Nottingham, where he was
admitted for surgery. Joss has been joint master for 10
years, and served six years in a previous Quorn mastership.
Two men shot while hunting, one dies.On January 19, 35-year-old Matthew Curenton died after
fellow hunter and best friend Matthew Riley, 31, shot at a
deer that stopped in the road between the pair. Riley was
about 800 feet from Curenton. They were on a private hunting
lease in Calhoun County. The .308 caliber rifle bullet struck
Curenton in the chest. Riley preformed CPR on Curenton until
EMS personnel arrived. Curenton was taken to Calhoun-Liberty
County Hospital where he was pronounced dead...
There have been four hunting accidents in Northwest Florida
since the beginning of the hunting season in October.
Saturday's fatality marks the first fatal accident in the
state this year.
A tracking dog apparently stepped on a loaded shotgun in the bed of his owner's pickup truck, firing a fatal blast into the man's thigh during a goose hunt, officials said. Perry Alvin Price III died at a hospital Saturday from severe blood loss from his femoral artery shortly after the southeast Texas accident. According to Chambers County sheriff's investigators, Price was hunting on a lease near Stowell, about 60 miles east of Houston, when he shot down a goose. Price, 46, then set the gun in the back of his truck and was about to open the tailgate to release his tracking dog when the shotgun fired, investigators said. The blast penetrated the truck's tailgate before hitting Price. Paw prints from the dog, a chocolate Labrador retriever named Arthur, were found on the muddy shotgun, Sheriff Joe LaRive said. Daniel Groberg, Price's hunting partner, said he tried to stop the bleeding with clothing before driving him to seek help. "It's the strangest case that I've seen," LaRive said. "We couldn't talk to Perry and Groberg was at the front of the truck when he heard the shotgun blast and didn't see what happened."
Armed robber is shot dead after hunting rabbits.
A VIOLENT armed robber with extensive underworld and
drug-smuggling connections was shot dead as he returned from
a trip hunting rabbits yesterday morning...Detectives were
uncertain of the motive behind the murder of Lynch, which
happened shortly after midnight. A lone gunman approached a
minivan carrying Lynch and five others who had just returned
for a day's rabbit hunting in the countryside outside the
town...
Hunter's Body Found In Pond.
A Kewanee man is dead after an apparent hunting mishap in
Peoria County Friday. Search crews pulled the body of
64-year-old Gary Zarvell from a Brimfield pond late Friday
afternoon.
Authorities say Zarvell received permission to hunt geese on
the property...On late Friday morning the property owner noticed
a capsized boat on the pond....Investigators believe Zarvell went
out on a rowboat to recover the geese and somehow flipped the
boat over and drowned...
Abattoir transporter driver dies at the wheel. Fond tributes have been paid
to a Llanelli grand-dad who died at the wheel of a lorry. David Williams, of
Bryn Morlais, is thought to have suffered a heart attack just before colliding
with a First Cymru bus in Maesteg...The 62-year-old had been driving a lorry
carrying lamb back to Dafen abattoir TWM, where he had been employed for 40 years...
Teen dies after being shot by member of hunting party. A grandfather fatally shot his
18-year-old grandson in northwestern Waushara County during
the opening weekend of Wisconsin's nine-day gun deer-hunting
season, a warden says.
David R. Ruck from the Saxeville area died at a Neenah
hospital after he was shot Sunday morning, Sheriff David R.
Peterson said...
Ruck had been shot in the upper leg and inner groin, Peterson
said, adding that the shooter said he mistook Ruck for a
deer.
The sheriff's department and state Department of Natural
Resources were investigating...
Man Shot Accidentally While Hunting In Berlin.
A 51-year old East Berlin man was taken by Life Star to
Hartford Hospital Friday morning after being wounded in the
lower left leg while deer hunting off Beckley Road in Berlin.
Police said the man was in a heavily wooded area on private
property with his stepson and a friend.
Police said they believe his stepson accidentally shot him.
Minn. hunter hospitalized after weekend shooting in N.D.
A Minnesota hunter was reported in guarded
condition at a Fargo hospital after being shot in south
central North Dakota over the weekend. Authorities said Ron
Mehl, 37, of Eden Prairie, was shot in the chest Saturday
while he was with a hunting party in a corn field near Lehr.
Melrose hunter dies in fall from tree stand.
A hunter from Melrose, Minn., died after
falling 20 feet from a deer stand, authorities said.
According to the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office, Anthony
Vossen, 47, fell Saturday morning when the strap holding
his portable deer stand broke.
4 Hunters Shot in Minnesota Deer Hunting Opener.
At least four hunters were shot and one killed in Minnesota
during the opening weekend of the deer season. Local police
are investigating all of the shootings and all appear to be
accidental....
Associated Press: Bull rider dies after being stomped by bull.
A 21-year-old professional bull rider from Missouri died
after being stomped by a bull he had just ridden.
Joshua J. "Cody" Brunner of Warrensburg, Mo., died Saturday
night after he was stepped on by a bull in a United Rodeo
Association event, Topeka police said. He died after being
taken to Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka.
Autopsy results released Monday by the Shawnee County
coroner's office said the cause of death was "blunt force
injuries." Brunner had completed his eight-second ride and was injured
as he dismounted the bull. He was sixth in earnings for the
season, with $1,537 heading into the URA finals Saturday.
Elbow Lake deer hunter is shot in chest and dies.
An Elbow Lake, Minn., hunter died after he was shot in the
chest on Saturday, the opening day of the firearms
deer-hunting season.
The 60-year-old man, whose name was not available Saturday
night, was "posting," or waiting for deer to emerge, as
others in his hunting party flushed them out of tall grass in
a slough area about a mile and a half southeast of Elbow
Lake, said Grant County Sheriff Dwight Walvatne.
A Tama man was injured when hunting dogs stepped on his gun.
Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said James Harris, 37, was pheasant hunting with a group about three miles north of Grinnell
when the accident happened.
Officials said the group had shot a bird and when Harris went to retrieve
it, he put his gun on the ground and crossed a fence. As he crossed the
fence, hunting dogs stepped on his gun causing it to fire.
Harris was shot in the lower left leg.
He was treated at Grinnell Medical Center and later transferred by
helicopter to University Hospitals in Iowa City. His condition has not
been released.
The investigation is continuing.
15 October 2007
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
A bear attacked and injured two elk hunters in Jamtland, northern Sweden, where a hunter was killed by a different bear last week. The men were flown to hospital by helicopter but their condition was not known. Police are hunting the animal.
Angry mother rhino kills poacher in Kaziranga.
A poacher responsible for killing
several rhinos in Assam's Kaziranga National Park met his end
when a female rhinoceros with a calf gored him to death when
he went on another hunting mission in the protected area.
Gaonbura Ronfar, alias Babu, a resident of Koliabor
sub-division of Assam, was killed by a female rhino on Sep 23
inside the Kukurakota forest range on the fringe of
Kaziranga, an official disclosed Friday. 'It took almost 10
days to conclusively identify the person,' range ffficer of
the park Ekramul Muzid said.
Gaonbura Ronfar reportedly entered the Kukurakota reserve
forest at night along with an accomplice, who belonged to the
Paite community of Nagaland, to hunt rhinos, a protected
animal. An angry female, which had a calf along with it,
attacked the two men in self-defence. While Ronfar died on
the spot, his accomplice managed to escape.
'We searched for his body in the Kukurakota forest range for
four days but we couldn't find it. We established his
identity through our intelligence network,' he said. Ronfar's
accomplice passed on the message of his death to his family
through a local youth. But his family members kept his death
a secret, fearing public anger. Villagers have been made
aware of the need to protect wildlife and report poaching
activities to the authorities.
Muzid came to know of the incident and started a probe.
Initially, Ronfar's family members insisted that his death
was due to natural causes, but on further questioning they
confessed the real cause of death. Ronfar had been arrested
for poaching in 2003, but was released due to lack of
evidence. Rhinos are hunted for their horn, wrongly believed
to be an aphrodisiac, and for their skin, which is also used
in some traditional systems of medicine.
A Tillamook-area man died this afternoon while
bow hunting after falling 250 feet down a rocky cliff, police
said. Timothy Lee Harrison, 46, was hunting with his brother,
William Harrison, 50, on private property about three miles
north of Trask River Road when he fell to his death...
Mad cow takes life of teacher at C-EL.
Classes at Chester-East Lincoln School will be cancelled Thursday following the death late Saturday of learning disabilities teacher Connie Albert from a human form of mad cow disease. A C-EL school board meeting scheduled for this evening will go on as planned.
Albert began showing symptoms of the disease about three months ago when her vision began to be impaired, according to her brother, Bob Thomas, who is also Logan County coroner. Thomas said spinal fluid sent to a lab in Columbus, Ohio, confirmed the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease after doctors, first at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and then Memorial Medical Center in Springfield were stymied. Thomas said a doctor at Memorial finally began to suspect mad cow disease and called in an associate from another hospital who had a patient with the disease. The disease is extremely rare in the U.S., literally a one in a million chance of contracting the disease. Thomas said the only time his sister has been out of the country was a trip to Canada about three years ago.
Also, the disease has a very long incubation period, up to 40 years.
Albert was 57 at the time of her death. Albert tried working for a bit, but once the diagnosis was made, she went to hospice for care, Thomas said. She came home once the end was near.
The disease is always fatal and kills by eating away the brain. With the more common human form, the brain becomes spongy, perforated with holes. Thomas said health officials would not know which form of the disease Albert had without an autopsy, but the family has decided against performing the procedure. As the disease in his sister progressed, Thomas said, dementia set in."She would go round and round in circles, and couldn't find the bathroom. At the end, she didn't know my name." Albert, a teacher since 1973, began teaching at Beason Grade School in 1984 and transferred to C-EL in 1994. She was married to Jack Albert, had two sons, Frank Yeates and Casey Albert, both of Lincoln, and a daughter, Bridget Yeates, also of Lincoln. She was the daughter of Robert and Emogene Thomas.
An Australian woman
was killed by a pet camel given to her as a 60th birthday
present after the animal apparently tried to have sex, police
said Sunday.
The woman, whose name was not released, was killed Saturday
at her family's sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, 350
miles west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, state
police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory said.
The 10-month-old male camel — weighing about 330 pounds —
knocked the woman to the ground, lay on top of her, then
exhibited what police suspect was mating behavior, Gregory
said. "I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even
a sexual sort of thing," Gregory said, adding the camel
almost suffocated the family's pet goat by straddling it on
several occasions.
Camel expert Chris Hill said he had no doubt the camel's
behavior was sexual. Hill, who has offered camel rides to
tourists for 20 years, said young camels are not aggressive,
but can be dangerous if treated as pets without discipline.
The fate of the camel was not known.
The woman was given the camel in March as a birthday present
from her husband and daughter. "She had a love of exotic
pets," Gregory said.
The president of a
French bullfighting club died overnight Tuesday from injuries
sustained when he was gored by a bull that had escaped the
ring at a weekend event.
Bernard Coffin, 69, was gored in the leg by the young bull
after finding himself trapped behind the gate of an enclosure
at Saturday's bullfighting festival in Boujan-sur-Libron.
Coffin was taken to hospital in nearby Beziers and operated
on but died overnight following the operation, police said.
Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild, who helped
France's renowned Rothschild winemaking and banking dynasty
recover from the ravages of World War II, died Monday while
vacationing at his Austrian hunting lodge. He was 90.
Rothschild had been on a hunting trip at his lodge near the
alpine village of Scharnitz outside Innsbruck when he
suffered a fatal heart attack, police in the province of
Tyrol said in a statement.
He had spent the past several days hunting game with friends
in the heavily forested area...
An Oklahoma rodeo cowboy was killed this weekend when the bull he was riding fell on him, authorities said. Will Jernigan, 29, was killed at the Prague Rodeo at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. The Harrah native had been riding bulls for several years, officials said. Witnesses said the bull was jumping up in the chute before the gate was released. When it was released, the bull stepped on Jernigan and then fell on top of him. "You look up in there, and the bull's hanging up over the pen, kind of like he was trying to climb out, and he would go down and come back up, and you couldn't see the cowboy at all," said Sharon Lee. Paramedics at the scene reported that the bull stepped on Jernigan's head. He was taken by helicopter to a metro hospital where he later died. Jernigan's brothers said that he was planning to go to his high school reunion this weekend. He graduated from Harrah High School in 1997. "Everybody loved to be around him. Everybody wanted him around. He was like the life of the party. Whenever he showed up, he had everyone's attention," said Robert Jernigan. Bull riding was a large part of Jernigan's life. His aunt said she knew early on what he wanted to do. "He used to dress up as a rodeo clown for Halloween, said he really wanted to ride the bulls," said Barbara Bloyed.
Jernigan started in high school and won a state championship in 1997. However, family members said his other love was his new wife and family."He just wanted to put a good show on for his son that he had for the summer," said Robert Jernigan. "He was supposed to quit bull riding, but his son had come up and he wanted to show him what Daddy did." Jernigan is survived by his new wife. They were married in May. He is also survived by his 8-year-old son and 4-year-old stepson. His wife learned last week that she is expecting another child.
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Teenager dies after friend shoots him in head on hunting
trip.
Tragedy struck in the Sussex countryside when a student was
accidentally shot dead by his friend A teenager died after
being accidentally shot in the head by a friend while out
shooting. Student Alex Bailey, 18, was hit while hunting
pigeons with two friends on farmland in Southease, near
Lewes, East Sussex.
The trio were shooting at birds from a hide when Mr Bailey
was accidentally shot. His parents, Andrew and Sandra, said
they were all experienced huntsmen who held current shotgun
licences...
The death of Riccardo Ghiazza, who became infamous after a 2003
conviction for torturing baby elephants, will help to raise awareness
about the wildlife trade in South Africa.
Ghiazza, believed to have been on his way home, was killed on Saturday
night when he crashed his black Mercedes SLK on the R512 near
Hartbeespoort Dam. He died instantly from head injuries.
Ghiazza made news headlines in 1998 when secretly filmed footage of
mahouts employed by his company, African Game Services, brutally abusing
baby elephants was screened on television.
Some of the methods used included starving the young elephants,
depriving them of sleep and dragging the animals around in circles while
anchored to an adult elephant.
Ghiazza was believed to be functioning as a wild animal trader until his
death.
Lorca man killed in hunting accident-
A 36 year old man was shot dead late on Monday in a hunting
accident which took place in the Zarcilla de Ramos area of
Lorca...
EFE reports that the victim, named as J.L.C. from Lorca, was
accidentally shot by his uncle, 60 year old J.L.G., who
mistook him for an animal. They were on a night hunt for wild boar.
Turkey hunter shot in face- BUSHKILL TWP. A 44-year-old Wind Gap man shot in the face Friday after being mistaken for a turkey was airlifted to St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill....officials said the victim was shot on the right side of his face while he was in a stationary position calling to turkeys just off state game lands... It was said the victim was wearing eyeglasses that shattered and a face mask that had quite a few pellet holes...the victim took a majority of the shot, which came from about 19 yards away.
A schoolboy who climbed over a fence into a crocodile
enclosure and taunted the animals with sticks and a catapult
was dragged into the water and eaten.
The nine-year-old, whose family name was given as Liu, and
three friends sneaked into the crocodile park at the Silver
Beach holiday resort at Beihai in the southwestern Guangxi
region on Friday. The children shot at the animals with
catapults and beat them with sticks.
The official Xinhua news agency said: “One of the irritated
crocodiles bit Liu's clothes and dragged him into the water
where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.” His companions
then raised the alarm. Investigators searched for the missing
boy and decided to check inside the crocodiles. Snipers used
pork to lure them out of their pool and shot dead the first
animal to lumber on to the bank.
Inside it they found human remains that were confirmed to be
those of the boy. The crocodiles were still being bred, even
though their performances at the park were stopped several
years ago and the pool had been sealed off for auction.
The park's owner had hired a keeper to take care of the
crocodiles, but it was unclear why the man was not at the
enclosure when the boys broke in. The manager and the keeper
were being questioned by police.
Animal welfare has long been a low priority in China, where
many zoos have for years provided bare and often squalid pens
for animals that spend their entire existence in the public
eye. Even at the Beijing Zoo, the prized pandas must now be
cordoned off well out of reach of visitors. People have in
the past tossed food wrapped in plastic bags into their pens
which destroyed the digestive system of at least one of the
endangered animals.
The latest scandal to attract public attention came last year
in Shanghai when a city zoo cancelled its "Animal Olympics”
after shows featuring boxing matches between kangaroos and
their keepers, bears fighting and riding bicycles and an
elephant tug-of-war drew unwelcome publicity. The event was
cancelled after animal rights groups posted reports and
pictures on the internet.
A Knoxville man is in serious condition after being
shot by a member of his own hunting party.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says Rick Dailey, 47,
was shot by William Snyder while turkey hunting in the Chuck
Swan State Forest and Wildlife Management Area on Saturday.
TWRA says Dailey had a turkey decoy sticking out of the vest
he was wearing. Officials say Snyder accidentally shot Dailey
because he thought he saw a turkey. Paramedics took Dailey by
Lifestar to U.T. Medical Center to be treated for puncture
wounds to the neck, face, and upper body.
This is the second East Tennessee Hunting accident in just
two weeks.
Bullfight Gone Wrong: Madator in Serious Condition-
Spanish matador Fernando Cruz was
gored twice during the fourth bull fight of the Fallas
season. A 1,200 lb bull gored Cruz in two places.
A second bull fighter was also injured celebrating the same
festival.
Cruz was competing in the fourth bull fight of the
traditional Fallas season in Vallencia when things went
horribly wrong.
The 21-year-old from Madrid was gored twice - once in the
buttock and once in the scrotum. He was carried out of the
arena and underwent emergency surgery in a hospital. His
condition is described as serious.
Bears eat keeper who took their bile- A Chinese man has reportedly been killed and eaten by six bears in Shulan , Jilin province. Han Shigen earned a living by extracting bile from the gall bladders of his captive live bears, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua. He was attacked on Monday morning while cleaning the animals' cage, Xinhua said, quoting the Beijing News. Xinhua said the animals were so enraged that two hours passed before it was deemed safe enough to remove his body. Many parts of the bear, including the brain and spinal cord, have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine. The most coveted part is the bile within the gall bladder, which can often be more expensive that the equivalent weight of narcotics. Bear bile can fetch an estimated $1,000 per kilo in Asian markets. The bile is extracted in an excruciatingly painful process which involves slicing into the animal's flesh and "milking" the substance with a tube. The bile is then used for everything from hair shampoo to wine, as well as medicinal treatments for various intestinal and cardiac-related complaints.
A northeast Ohio farmer was attacked by a cow and died a day later of a fractured skull suffered when his head hit the ground, authorities said. The cow charged Steven Walker, 55, on Monday and knocked him down inside a barn on his farm in Lexington Township , said Rick Walters, a Stark County coroner's investigator. Walker was pronounced dead Tuesday in the intensive care unit of Mercy Medical Center in nearby Canton. Investigators plan to interview Walker's 8- and 13-year-old grandsons who witnessed the attack, Walters said. The cow might have become agitated as Walker moved one of her calves.
Loss goes beyond limb for man hurt while hunting- Russell Stough feels constant pain in his right arm...The thing is, most of his arm isn't there. It stops just above where an elbow should be. "They call it phantom pain, where the brain thinks the arm is still there," said Stough, 33, whose right arm was amputated last month after a freak hunting accident. On Dec. 14, Stough of Brandon was hunting...Stough ran out of shotgun shells and went to his hunting partner for more. His partner was retrieving a goose at the time, and as Stough approached, a flock of geese flew overhead. As Stough and the other hunter crouched down, the other hunter laid down his shotgun... Then a dog the two were hunting with stepped on the trigger, and the gun went off less than six inches away from Stough. The blast hit him just below the elbow of his right arm...Doctors couldn't save the arm, so it was amputated above the elbow...Stough said coping with the loss of his limb has been difficult for the family and 'Just sitting here having my arm exposed makes me uncomfortable...I can't even look at myself in the mirror. It makes me break down."
Millersburg man killed by own rifle in Ariz. hunting
accident- A Millersburg man was shot and killed by
his own high-powered rifle while varmint hunting in the Cedar
Springs area oon Monday.
Milan M. Hershberger, 24, of 2789 County Road 600, was
declared dead on arrival by an emergency response crew from
Pima.
Hershberger had been hunting with his traveling
companions...The group first arrived to bow hunt javelina on
Dec. 31...After killing their limit of javelina, a type of feral
hog,
they proceeded to hunt varmints such as coyote or fox...
Hershberger was out on an outcrop of rocks when he noticed a
fox coming his way....As he raised the shotgun, the rifle
fell off the side of cliff and hit butt-first at the bottom
of the 12-foot drop. The impact caused the rifle to go off,
and a round hit Hershberger.
The bullet entered under his right arm and exited out the top
of the shoulder, shattering the shoulder and his brachial
artery. Hershberger attempted to return to where his
companions were and shouted, "I'm hit!"...By the time
response crews from Pima arrived, Hershberger had bled out
and resuscitation efforts were in vain.
PM's top aide shot dead in hunting 'accident'-
Police in Ukraine are investigating the death of one of the
country's most powerful and controversial politicians in what
is said to have been a hunting accident. Yevgeny Kushnaryov,
described as "the right-hand man" to Ukraine's pro-Russian
Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych, died this week after being
shot by one of his hunting companions. Mr Kushnaryov and nine
other hunters were stalking wild boar in the heavily wooded
east of the country when tragedy struck...One version of
events has it that Mr Kushnaryov and his friends were on
their way home when they saw a wolf and leapt from their cars
to shoot at it. In the frenzied firing, he was shot.
A Jacksonville man was shot and killed accidentally by his brother while the two were hunting- While the two were on the family's Washington County property Wednesday, 24-year-old Christopher Bland climbed out of a tree stand. Apparently Bland's brother,
Joseph Bland, 22, who was standing about 55 yards away, thought his brother was a deer and shot him, the spokesman said.
Man's Homemade Mole Killer Kills Him Instead- A German retiree who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden killed himself instead, police said Thursday. Uwe Werner, police spokesman in Stralsund north of Berlin, said the 63-year-old retired construction foreman was found dead in the garden of his weekend house in Zingst next to a 380-volt cable and metal spikes rammed into the ground."The moles survived," Werner said, noting the voltage was enough to run a cement mixer or heavy-duty power saw. "It was in any event an unorthodox method to try to get rid of moles."
Fatal Hunting accident in Wichita County- Around 7:30 Saturday morning three men from the Dallas
area were duck hunting by the Scales Ranch near Lake Buffalo.
Investigators say one of the men`s rifles accidentally
discharged hitting 52-year-old Kerry Lynn Mason in the head.
He died at the scene...
A British farm worker needed hospital
treatment after being attacked by a herd of pigs, Norfolk
police said Sunday.
The 51-year-old man was knocked over by a sow at a Norfolk
farm in eastern England, prompting the rest of the herd to
attack him. "It seems that when he fell, he was attacked by
one of the sows and then the other pigs joined in," a Norfolk
police spokesman told Reuters...
One of the Westcountry's best-known farmers - a top huntsman - has died after being attacked by one of his own cattle. Raymond Burrough died on Boxing Day after he was attacked by a bull calf on December 15. He was the Master of the East Devon Hunt, but was also heavily involved in the local Young Farmers' group, the church and parish council, and his death has rocked the community at
Whimple village in East Devon... Mr Burrough had just bought the bull calf at Exeter livestock market when the tragic incident happened. It is understood that the animal attacked him in a shed at Gateshayes Farm, where he lived and worked with his wife Margaret. He was taken to hospital with internal injuries, which proved fatal. Last night, his grieving widow was preparing his funeral, which is due to take place on Wednesday morning.
A 38-year-old Houston man was shot and killed in what appeared to be a hunting accident Friday in Waller County. The incident was one of two hunting-related shootings that occurred in the suburban Houston area. In Liberty County, a 12-year-old boy was shot in both legs while squirrel hunting.
Waller County Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Nichols said the man was duck hunting with four other people when he was shot in the head about 8:35 a.m. .
A Greeneville man died Saturday morning in an apparent hunting accident in South Greene County, authorities said. Larry Broyles, 49, was hunting with his son in woods behind Parrish Drive...Later the son found Broyles lying in the woods with a single gunshot wound to the chest. Huffine said investigators believe Broyles dropped the rifle, which discharged when a branch snagged the trigger.
Jasper man found dead after hunting accident- A Jasper, Ind. man was found dead at Patoka Lake Reservoir
Wednesday night, after he apparently fell from a tree stand
and suffocated while he was hunting.
Brian D. Beckman, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene after
friends and family discovered his body at about 10:15 p.m.
Indiana Conservation Officer Tom Jahn said emergency
responders arrived about 15 minutes later, finding Beckman
hanging inverted from the platform of the tree stand. Jahn
said the exact cause is somewhat unclear since there are no
witnesses, but that it appears something caused Beckman to
slip from the stand and catch his foot in the platform
railing.
Beckman was then unable to free himself, and he reportedly
suffocated while hanging upside down. The official cause of
death is listed as positional asphyxiation, which Dubois
County Coroner Bob Veatch characterized as the weight of
Beckman's body pushing against his diaphragm and suffocating
him.
Murder of 5 hunters stuns Greece- Greek authorities are investigating
one of the country's most mysterious murder cases after a
family of hunters was killed over the weekend while pursuing
their hobby in the plains of central Greece. Police said the
five men, aged between 17 and 33, had each been shot at least
twice in what appeared to have been an execution-style
killing on Saturday in the woodlands of Kalyvia, 280
kilometers (175 miles) northwest of Athens...
Firearms, tree stands pose hunting dangers. Two Wisconsin hunters died in gun-related incidents so far this fall. A 51-year-old Vernon County woman was killed Nov. 7 when she was struck in the chest by a blast from a 10-gauge shotgun while duck hunting with a 50-year-old man. The gun was pointed in her direction when a dog stepped on the trigger.A 19-year-old man died last Saturday while hunting in
Wood County during a deer drive when his hunting partner, a 20-year-old man, thought he saw a deer and shot the victim in the chest.
2 Michigan men die in hunting-related accidents- Two Michigan deer hunters died in accidents this week,
including a man who fell out of a tree and an apparent victim
of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources
(DNR) has a warning for deer hunters as a recent rash of
falls from tree stands killed one hunter and paralyzed
another. Hunter Duane Alcott of Evansdale broke his back in
his fall near Brandon last month.
Kentucky hunter drowns while transporting deer by boat- A hunter fell out of a boat in which he was
transporting a deer he had killed and drowned on the Barren
River Reservoir in south-central Kentucky, authorities said.
Hunter injured in Assunpink shooting accident- A Middlesex County man suffered an eye injury Tuesday when he was struck in the face with shotgun pellets while hunting in the state Assunpink Wildlife
Management Area, according to State Police.
Hunting Death-A weekend accident claims the life of an area hunter. The
accident happened just south of Nevada in Vernon County. The
victim was hunting with two other family members. The body
has been sent to Springfield for an autotopsy.
A hunter fell out of his loft bed and died
after being impaled by an ornate metal chair, authorities
said.
James Frank Schuey Jr., 42, of Worthington, died early
Saturday at a camp in Washington Township from a massive loss
of blood, according to Coroner Robert T. Bower.
Hunter fatally shoots himself near Detroit Lakes- An 18-year-old hunter is dead after
accidentally
shooting himself near Detroit Lakes.
Becker County Sheriff Tim Gordon says the man was hunting by
himself 12
miles north of Detroit Lakes when he slipped on ice covering
a small pond.
The man's rifle went off - striking him.
Man drowns while hunting geese-Daniel Jonathan Shaw, 54, died Wednesday
when the canoe he
was in tipped over in a gravel pit pond. Shaw was hunting geese
in West Elgin Township at the time of
the mishap.
Emergency crews responded but could not save him.
