Webcam hunting...if you are this lazy about hunting, just go to the supermarket like the rest of us.

[FLPanhandle]

http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/rob-pavey/2011-01-14/only-georgia-internet-controlled-shotguns-linked-web-cams





Log on. Zoom in. Bang.

It sounds like something from a science fiction movie.

Creepy as the concept might be, someone actually built an Internet-controlled network of web-accessible cameras and shotguns aimed into a food plot on a Georgia Power Company right-of-way last fall.

According to a bulletin from the Georgia Information Sharing & Analysis Center, "three shotguns were set up on a platform and linked to a web-accessible camera system that allows the guns to be fired via an internet connection."

The expensive Benelli shotguns appear to be chambered for 3-inch shells and fitted with magazine extension tubes that increase their capacity from five to as many as eight rounds. Such a system, if fully operational, could direct substantial - and deadly - firepower.

The bulletin, circulated by the Office of Homeland Security, went on to say that the guns were trained toward a food plot, and that their likely intent was for hunting in an area known to be infested with feral hogs.

"At this time there is no evidence to suggest that such equipment was established for any purpose other than illegal hunting activity," the bulletin said.


I'm all for gun rights, but I don't think webcam hunting is covered by the 2nd.

[spanone]

1. now that's some lazy fucking hunters

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. That is truly creepy

[Hello_Kitty]

3. Remote controlled shotguns. What could possibly go wrong?

:wow:

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I'm sure it's not only illegal to hunt that way, but leaving a loaded gun unattended also illegal.

And leaving such expensive guns unattended is also stupid.

[yourout]

5. What next your own personal UAV with Lahat Laser Guided missiles?

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ZEEJVnFWTyxSbM:&t=1

[Fumesucker]

6. Somebody has seen The Jackal a few too many times...

Just such a setup was used in that movie for an assassination attempt.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Increases the chances of a wounded animal getting away and then

dying slowly in horrible pain.

Bastards.

[spanone]

8. or a wounded person....

[lpbk2713]

9. Do the power company workers get hazardous duty pay?

Unfuggenbelievable.

[old mark]

10. I went to the supermarket, but they got really pissed when I shot the turkey

in the freezer...Fucking wimps...


mark

[Codeine]

11. My first thought;

"Dude! Free shotguns!"

[petronius]

12. I read a few years ago about a hunting ranch that set something like this up

so that disabled hunters could operate the rifle from home. As I recall, there was somebody physically at the site to verify the legality of the animal being targeted, as well as to track and kill wounded animals...

[Ezlivin]

13. Hunting and pecking

That guy hunched over his smartphone? He might be hunting, not texting.