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None as famOus as BAT Masterson....

How'd those crows taste j0j0?

Just a minor skirmish due to preditory nature of some board members. Apparently there is only one "casualty".

Don't be so thin skinned. Life's too short to take other people's opinions so seriously, especially when they have no bearing on your life.

Sooner or later everyone winds up in a shouting match/disareement with someone else or others. Been there, been through it with another poster here on this board. It's no big deal, so don't take anything personally and don't hold a grudge. It's not worth it.

Hren,
We know how wierd an internet blow-up is. This medium is simultaeneously very intimate and impossibly distant. I hope you hang around.

You can always come back under a new nom de' fusil and nobody would be the wiser.

Attention bat-o-phile members of Doublegun BBS!!! Look to Texas for your new mission!!


Bat infestation forces Texas Southern students out of dorm

Associated Press

Last update: September 19, 2007 – 8:35 AM

HOUSTON — Bats took over a university dormitory, forcing more than 200 students into hotels and worrying health officials, who now fear the students could have been exposed to rabies.
Videos posted on the Internet show students swinging a broom and a tennis racket as several bats fly about in a dormitory hallway at Texas Southern University. One student, 19-year-old Jason Smith, said he killed dozens of bats but didn't know of anyone who was bitten.

"When we saw the video, we knew we had a problem," said Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the city of Houston's health department.

Health officials asked students who had been in Lanier Hall East to meet with them this week to determine whether any would need rabies vaccinations.

Texas Southern officials, meanwhile, are trying to rid the dorm of the bat infestation, said university spokesman Terrence Jackson. It wasn't clear how many bats were in the building. Exterminators went to the dorm on Monday.

Rabies is a viral disease most often transmitted through a bite from an infected animal. It attacks the central nervous system and, if untreated, can lead to paralysis, difficulty swallowing and death.

I have visions of young Jason Smith being dragged out to the quad and drawn and quartered.

I sat on the sidelines on this one. Didnt really see the big emotional problem but thats me. Anyway, my thoughts now that you have chosen to depart the site.

Dont be so hasty. You are reacting without thought as quickly as those that you criticize. Just like all of us has at one time or another in our lives have done something we shouldnt have or shot something out of season, on posted land, went over the bag limit, shot our firends birds to make his limit etc. etc. We all tend to forget our previous transgressions and are quick to snipe at those who speak of their actions (good or bad) . Believe me, I am not perfect and I am not real tolerant but sitting on the sidelines of this diatribe, I can only say nto not let them wear you down. Those that are quick to call the DNR or other authorities when they dont even live in your state need to examine their own lives and deeds.

Dont cut your nose off over this and dont make the same error twice. Temper your posts with forethought.

Jeff,
A couple of things for you to consider:

When online try not to take things so personal. I am assuming that you are under thirty because of your intense responses. Take a step back and calm down before responding. There are always a few loud voices that try to get you worked up s0me dO it just f0r fun.

Keep your responses polite (no ranting or cursing) and factual. Fighting back only causes people who cant defend their actions to resort to personal attack.

Read over what you write before you hit the submit button. Check for spelling errors. Everybody makes some mistakes but try to keep them to a minimum. I know that is hard to do when angry but its important.

The responses to your thread were stunning and Im sorry you went through it and that you were turned in. There are a lot of people on here with common sense, who avoid posts that stray from the subject matter(doubleguns). There isnt another website that comes close to the excellent info available here.

To those afraid of the environmentalist nuts, you are wrong about fueling their fires. They will use legal hunting if they cant find something more controversial.

Stick around, calm down, find something related to guns to talk about and contribute to the good information here.
Ross

Herb, you're an American in a wonderful state contributing to a board comprised of mostly Americans of conservative views.

I'm a Canadian left-winger in a "socialist" country whose opinions elicit a few jabs, heart-felt and sincere.

That's life. There's no one on the board I wouldn't invite to our home. My notion of Hell would be everyone thinking like me.

Uhhhhhh? I wouldn't say no bearing. Did you happen to miss the part where someone took it upon themselves to call the Conservation Police on Jeff?

An argument on a bulletin board is one thing, going to the real life authorities (before you have all of the facts) is another. I do not think that it is fair to say he is being thin skinned.