re: Reelfoot Lake Duck hunters murdered

Can y’all quit derailing the thread with this stupid arse argument

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The state has the burden of proof, not the defendant you arse-ignorant fricking pisspot.

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You obviously have no clue how much power a juror has.

But hey, go around executing all the trespassers you want.
I hope it works out for you like you say.
I was trying to protect you from yourself but i see you are a lost cause.

This is horrible news. Hope all the facts come out.

A buddy and I were hunting Catahoula Lake a few years back in a blind that belonged to a guy he knew. I figured we were in a random blind- public land so we would just leave if asked by the owner. My buddy’s friend came roaring up in his boat yelling to get the frick out of his blind. He was joking just to mess with us but it got me thinking I’d rather hunt in my own spot I found than risk a confrontation in a random persons blind.

Ciceroing is a time honored tradition on Houla and works if the person vacates said blind when asked.
RF is a CF of houses and as many spinners as one can hang. There has to more to the story to provoke the action but said action shouldn’t have taken place.

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Man. You might be the dumbest person I’ve ever seen on this site. And that’s quite and accomplishment

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You should see his poli board posts. The guy is an unrepentant Q follower who has been lecturing everyone about how they weren't doing enough "work" to be worthy of commenting on political posts.

He's one of the intellectual political elites of the poli board. He's also one of the smartest people he's ever met.

shite like this makes me happy we don't have ducks like we used to. I haven't shot at a mallard since 2006 and these days I'm damn glad I haven't seen them. Massive hoards of idiot assholes follow ducks everywhere they ever dare pass.

Apparently the lake brings out the devil in mankind. Pretty good article on the fight between locals and big landowners over access to the lake.
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The people who made their living fishing felt threatened. One of them, Tom Johnson of the Obion County community of Hornbeak, was quoted by the Union City newspaper as saying:

“(God) saw that we couldn’t make a livin’ farmin’, so he ordered an earthquake, an’ the earthquake left a big hole. Next he filled the hole with watah an’ put fish in it. Then he knew we could make a livin’ between farmin’ and fishin’. But along comes these rich men who don’t have to make no livin’, an’ they tell us all that we must not fish in the lake any mo’, ’cause they owns the lake an’ the fish God put theah foh us. It jus’ naturally ain’t right, strange; it ain’t no justice.’”

Many of the fishermen and their friends began making “nightrider”-type raids of their own against the West Tennessee Land Co. The wave of terrorism went on for about seven months and, as so often happens with lawlessness and terrorism, soon became an instrument of vengeance against people who may have had nothing to do with the West Tennessee Land Co. Crops were burned, docks were burned, men and women were taken from their homes and beaten.

The trouble peaked on Oct. 19, 1908, when Quenton Rankin and R.G. Taylor, two attorneys associated with the land company, were taken from a hotel in the community known as Walnut Log. Rankin was hanged from a tree and shot. Taylor escaped into the swamp amid a storm of bullets and was presumed dead. He survived by hiding under a cypress log for 24 hours.

Tennessee Gov. Malcolm Patterson called out the Tennessee National Guard. Working together with law enforcement officials from several states as well as hundreds of volunteers, they rounded up about 50 suspects. In January 1909, a jury found eight of them guilty and handed six of the eight the death sentence. The verdicts and the sentences were, at the time, hailed as a triumph of law and order, since the attorney general, judge and jury were all reportedly receiving threats during the trial.

“The conviction of these men,” said the Memphis Commercial Appeal, “marks the turning point of nightriderism toward its decline.”

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Yeah...Boys on the lake didnt take kindly to strangers and govt people back then....lol

But, its also the home town of the 19th Commadant of the USMC. He was a tough SOB

Here’s a local thread about the situation. Seems a few folks on that board know the kids and the shooter

Reelfoot waterfowl board