Okay, that last bit was me reading Gentry’s tiny mind. What does a wanna be country singer do for a hobby? Why play at being hunter and kills a captive bear named Cubby. I don’t think barring him from hunting is really punishment since he’s not a fucking hunter in the first place. I say they drop him in a hungry grizzley den greased up with bacon fat.
From CMT: Country singer Troy Lee Gentry admitted Monday that he shot and killed a domesticated black bear in a 3-acre penned area and not in the wild, as he had claimed when he registered the animal with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Gentry pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Duluth to the misdemeanor crime of submitting a false hunting registration form after killing the bear.
Gentry, 39, of Franklin, Tenn., a member of the country singing duo Montgomery Gentry, had been scheduled to stand trial starting Monday but reached a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
He agreed to pay a $15,000 fine and forfeit the mounted bear, the bow he used to kill the bear, and all hunting, fishing and trapping privileges in Minnesota for five years.
The singer admitted that he set up a hunting stand in a 3-acre pen that was surrounded by an electric fence. [U.S. Attorney Michael] Dees told the court that Gentry had registered the bear as being shot in the wild six miles east of Sandstone.
People forget how much trouble real bear hunting is: you have to go in the woods, wear special clothes, walk for miles carrying heavy things, and then you may not find a bear in the first 20 minutes. Really inconvenient.
Perhaps Mr. Gentry should try his luck during the annual polar bear migration around the Hudson Bay. From what I have read, the chances of Bear gets Gentry or \gentry gets bear are about 50/50. Maybe Tobie Keith could go too. Of course, maybe the bears couldn’t stomach them either.
Joe
I say get it as a small cub and smother it in it’s sleep…just in case the lille fuzzball doesn’t actually want to be killed. Who eats bear anyhow?