@vtgrad2003 Well, I do know a couple of guys who use kayaks but they are relatively intelligent for Louisiana duck hunters. Neither of them shoot from the kayaks. They hunt in marsh areas where they can't get their larger boats in close. The kayaks are to get from the boat to their duck blinds further in the marsh where the water is usually less than 12 inches deep.
@PappyJoe That makes sense; here though, on Belews Lake, hunting from shore is prohibited and there are no blinds--it's common knowledge here so these guys knew better. That said, I can certainly see where in situations like you described, a kayak to get out to your blinds is certainly necessary.
@vtgrad2003 Really? They can't hunt from shore is strange in my opinion. Then again, I know of areas for deer hunting where you can only hunt from deer stands, still or stalking isn't allowed.
Yeah, I'd never do it, its a no win scenario, they're hard enough to manage on there own.
While I have laughed at the plucky bastards who fish at sea in kayaks, the fools who do not cut their lines and allow themselves to be dragged 3 miles out deserve what they get.
I guess it's also a sign of my age as my tolerance with regard to suffering fools has seriously declined,.
@vtgrad2003 I have heard of people that duck hunt out of a kayak, but not me, I bought a boat to stay out of the water. Actually I have not duck hunted much.
It's
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Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby
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this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a
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Well, I do know a couple of guys who use kayaks but they are relatively intelligent for Louisiana duck hunters. Neither of them shoot from the kayaks. They hunt in marsh areas where they can't get their larger boats in close. The kayaks are to get from the boat to their duck blinds further in the marsh where the water is usually less than 12 inches deep.
That makes sense; here though, on Belews Lake, hunting from shore is prohibited and there are no blinds--it's common knowledge here so these guys knew better. That said, I can certainly see where in situations like you described, a kayak to get out to your blinds is certainly necessary.
Really? They can't hunt from shore is strange in my opinion. Then again, I know of areas for deer hunting where you can only hunt from deer stands, still or stalking isn't allowed.
I have heard of people that duck hunt out of a kayak, but not me, I bought a boat to stay out of the water. Actually I have not duck hunted much.
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I think I've been laughing for like 23 min 😂🤣
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Right on brother!
I think the winner had played that game before.
I think the winners are the men standing around watching.
• SEVENTH PLACE
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.
• SIXTH PLACE *
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
• FIFTH PLACE *
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish
• FOURTH PLACE *
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun
• THIRD PLACE *
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
*SECOND PLACE*
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses.
• FIRST PLACE *
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her$1,750,000.
PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.
Now that is funny!
@Zouave
Be strong, you gotta do it