Reply #25: Next ask me....

[MrBenchley]

"For two days now, I've been asking why its "wrong" to hunt. The only reply that I've heard is that "because you shouldn't do it for fun". I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. Unfortunately, that refers to a very small amount of the population and specifically, NOT ME AT ALL."
Yeah, we know, you're doing it out of your strong sense that animals were secretly asking to have bullet holes....

"Out of curiousity, could you provide me a link to where a lost hunter is blamed for starting the wildfires?"

Sure. Wonder if he had fun while he was out...

"CEDAR FIRE
Acreage: well over 150,000 including 25,000 within the city of San Diego.
Structures burned: 150 in Scripps Ranch, 10 in Tierrasanta, 368 spread across Ramona, Lakeside and East County.
Deaths:At least seven. Four died in Lakeside, and three died on the Barona Indian Reservation. Two other people taken to trauma centers died of fire injuries but it was not clear from which fire they were transported.
Injured: 2 firefighters, several civilians
Firefighters on scene:1000+
Aircraft: 2
Containment: None
Start: 5:37 p.m. Oct. 25 between Julian and Ramona
Cause: Authorities believe a hunter set signal fire when he got lost."

http://appalachia.outdoors.org/bbs/messageview.cfm?catid=4&threadid=4069

"CEDAR FIRE, San Diego County: 14 people dead, 2,232 homes, 22 commercial properties and 566 outbuildings destroyed, 280,293 acres burned. Death toll includes one firefighter. Started Oct. 25, apparently by lost hunter setting a signal fire. Contained. "

http://www.nctimes.com/special_reports/fire2003/

"The Cedar fire, raging in the dry foothills 30 miles east of the city of San Diego, has grown in four days from big to bigger to biggest - the most destructive fire in the history of California. And yesterday it claimed the life of a fire fighter and critically injured two others.
The fire, which may have started after a lost hunter lit a fire to draw attention to his location, has consumed 233,192 acres, 960 homes and displaced thousands."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/nation/7134530.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp