{"id":758620,"date":"2019-10-26T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758620"},"modified":"2019-10-26T08:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T12:52:05","slug":"hunt-the-hunters-wisconsin-deer-stands-vandalized-with-anti-hunting-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758620","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hunt the Hunters&#8217;: Wisconsin deer stands vandalized with anti-hunting messages"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>It is an absurd idea that there is sport in lying in wait for an unsuspecting animal to stroll by and then blowing it away with a high-powered weapon. People who do this sort of thing are despicable and need to be stopped.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MICHAEL BARTIROMO:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;For the second time in just weeks, deer stands in Wisconsin\u2019s Dunn County were discovered vandalized with messages targeting the area\u2019s hunters, including one message which read, \u201cHunt the hunters&#8221;&#8230; The Dunn County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed that the second deer stand \u2014 located in the Township of Dunn \u2014 had been spray-painted with the message, as well as what appeared to be the logo for the Animal Liberation Front.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Animal Liberation Front, or A.L.F., has since told Fox News the organization was &#8220;very pleased&#8221; with the development. &#8220;The North American Animal Liberation Press Office was very pleased to hear about the destruction of multiple hunting stands in Dunn County,&#8221; the A.L.F. said in a statement to Fox News. &#8220;It is an absurd idea that there is sport in lying in wait for an unsuspecting animal to stroll by and then blowing it away with a high-powered weapon. People who do this sort of thing are despicable and need to be stopped&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The activists responsible for the Dunn vandalism had also damaged &#8220;several trail cams&#8221; that might have caught their actions, police wrote on Facebook. This marks the second such incident in Dunn County since late September, when vandals took down a deer stand in the Township of Sherman, spray-painting the structure with the words \u201cAll hunters are bastards,\u201d as well \u201cA.L.F&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Groups affiliated with the A.L.F. have claimed responsibility for similar damage to hunting structures in the past. Most recently, suspects in France downed over a dozen hunting stands \u2014 or up to 22, as reported by the A.L.F. \u2014 in Brittany earlier this month, according to French outlet Ouest-France&#8217;.\u00a0<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/hunt-the-hunters-deer-stands-wisconsin-vandalized-with-anti-hunting-messages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RTOXjyaVEEA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHAEL BARTIROMO: &#8216;For the second time in just weeks, deer stands in Wisconsin\u2019s Dunn County were discovered vandalized with messages targeting the area\u2019s hunters, including one message which read, \u201cHunt the hunters&#8221;&#8230; The Dunn County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed that the second deer stand \u2014 located in the Township of Dunn \u2014 had been spray-painted with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,20,21,22],"tags":[27,32,35,37],"class_list":["post-758620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-morality","tag-cruelty","tag-free-living","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758625,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758620\/revisions\/758625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}