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Illegal hunting still happening on Ebenezer Church Rd.; where is the law?Tue, 12/11/2007 - 5:34pm
By: Letters to the ...
For more than a year now I have been begging the marshal’s office and the Sheriff’s Department to enforce Ordinance No. 94-01 adopted on Feb. 24, 1994. This is a law that was enacted when a 14-year-old boy was killed in the woods by his home. He was mistaken for a deer and shot by an idiot with a high-powered rifle. We have one of these in our neighborhood. He refuses to abide by this law even after being cited by the state game warden for shooting a deer out of season. The law against shooting a high-powered rifle on fewer than 25 acres is a county law, [but] he wasn’t cited. This man continues to shoot his high-powered rifle on five acres of land. This endangers anyone living a mile away since these bullets can travel a long distance, and are capable of going through walls to kill someone. Last year in Douglas County a young woman was shot by a stray bullet; she died at her desk. Must we have another tragedy here in Fayette County before the laws on the books are enforced? How many times must a property owner call the marshal’s office, and the sheriff’s office before this man is arrested and made to obey the law? Is it too much to ask to just be safe in your home and not have to worry about someone shooting deer in an area where it is prohibited? [Two weekends ago] this man shot at a deer about 6 a.m.; two shots were fired before daylight. This past Sunday he was out firing away during the daytime; eight shots were fired. This man could be cited for disturbing the peace (that is on the books, too, under the noise control ordinance) and then cited for breaking the law by firing a high-powered rifle on five acres of land. Mr. Saul is a hunter, and each and every night a herd of deer is across the road from us. Should he want to break the law, he certainly could, and would love to shoot a deer that near to home. However, he respects his neighbors, and respects the law; therefore he travels 125 miles to hunt on thousands of acres that have been designated by the state of Georgia for hunters. We have lived in this county since the 1960s and I would beg for each and every law-abiding citizen to call the sheriff’s office and the marshal’s office and demand that these laws on the books be enforced and not just a good old boy warning be issued. We don’t want another tragedy to happen in this county; we need laws to be enforced and a hefty fine each and every time a law is broken. When it hits the wallet, then I am sure it will stop. P.S. A neighbor was shooting a high-powered gun across the road from me. On Wednesday, the buzzards have found a dead deer with a bullet hole in the carcass no more than 25 feet from a very busy Ebenezer Church Road and about 200 feet from my front door. What does it take to wake someone up to the danger that everyone is in as long as this man continues to shoot on five acres of land, 25 feet from the road? James B. Saul and LeGay Saul Fayette County, Ga. login to post comments |