{"id":141,"date":"2003-11-24T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=141"},"modified":"2016-10-17T18:12:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:12:32","slug":"2tag-murdered-by-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/2tag-murdered-by-poachers\/","title":{"rendered":"2Tag: Murdered by poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always prepare ourselves when hunting season begins every year.  Prepared for the inevitability when 2-Tag would never come back home again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/2tag3-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" border=\"1\"  alt=\"Baby cubs, two summers ago\" align=\"right\" \/>He was named 2-Tag when he was a frightened little cub two years ago, separated from his mommy and caught in a bear trap.  When the game warden tagged him, he didn&#8217;t realize he was already tagged in the other ear.<\/p>\n<p>He was sent off several times deep into the woods hundreds of miles away.  He always made his way back home.  Where he belongs.<\/p>\n<p>He stayed here with us in the community as our playful 300 lb &#8220;problem child&#8221;, terrorizing the dumpsters every morning looking for breakfast.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe was loved, and he wouldn&#8217;t hurt a soul.<br \/>\n(Well, last year he did several thousands of dollars worth of damage to a home, ripping off their siding and part of their kitchen wall down to get to water.  Hey, nobody&#8217;s perfect.)<br \/>\nWe thought he would be safe in our private community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/2tag1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" border=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/2tag2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" border=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/2tag4-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, two poachers proved us wrong.<br \/>\nThey shot him and his buddy, Goliath.  Waiting for them at the dumpsters for an easy kill.<\/p>\n<p>Now before I hear from some asshole drunk biiiiig &#038; tough overly-macho hunter with a big (compensating) rifle who&#8217;s going to chime in on &#8220;The necessities of hunting&#8221;, let me enlighten you on a few facts in this case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They were in a private community.  That&#8217;s against the law.  Not to mention a stray bullet could have hit a kid walking to the bus stop, or a passing car on the main road.<\/li>\n<li>Kill all the fucking deer you want in a few weeks.  Personally, I can&#8217;t stand them<\/li>\n<li>Something should be considered a &#8220;sport&#8221; when both sides realize they&#8217;re in the game, and both stand somewhat of a chance of winning<\/li>\n<li>Just zip it.  I don&#8217;t want to hear it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He and Goliath are the bears from &#8220;<b>My Cat Puddy<\/b>&#8220;. The pictures above was from when he came by for Samantha&#8217;s birthday party in May.  He smelled the food and the cake, and came running (even trying his darndest to climb in a window, as I guess we, uhm, forgot to open the door and let him in with the house full of guests from New York&#8230; he did get a hat though.).<\/p>\n<p>He was family.<br \/>\nHe was loved.<\/p>\n<p>The spineless illegal hunters were blocked by neighbors as they attempted to drag them across the road where it&#8217;s legal gamelands.  They were held there until security, the game warden and state police could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite worth it now, was it?<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the fines and possible federal charges they&#8217;re facing, it still doesn&#8217;t make the kids (and grownups) stop crying&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I just want my fucking bear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was loved, and he wouldn&#8217;t hurt a soul. 2-Tag, a young, playful bear (and my friend) was murdered today by poachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pocono-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2Tag: Murdered by poachers - SoApBoX<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/2tag-murdered-by-poachers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2Tag: Murdered by poachers - 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