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Golfing too well or RIP Noisy Hawk

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:09 pm

PGA Tour Golfer Isenhour Charged With Intentionally Killing Noisy Hawk With Golf Shot

Thursday , March 06, 2008

AP
ORLANDO, Fla. —
PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour was charged with killing a hawk on purpose with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335774,00.html

Film at 11
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:23 am

The PGA should pull this guys card.

I may regret having said this and I said it.
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#3 Post by mrkelley23 » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:25 am

This sounds exactly like a lot of the attitudes I used to hear on the golf course while caddying. IOW, 30 years ago.

It sounds a little Zoeller-ish, doesn't it?
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#4 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:33 am

mrkelley23 wrote:This sounds exactly like a lot of the attitudes I used to hear on the golf course while caddying. IOW, 30 years ago.

It sounds a little Zoeller-ish, doesn't it?
Fuzzy is a funny bird - I hope he would never do such a thing. It sounds like a group of 15 year olds were out there and teenage brain got in gear and it just snow-balled.
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#5 Post by mrkelley23 » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:37 am

peacock2121 wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:This sounds exactly like a lot of the attitudes I used to hear on the golf course while caddying. IOW, 30 years ago.

It sounds a little Zoeller-ish, doesn't it?
Fuzzy is a funny bird - I hope he would never do such a thing. It sounds like a group of 15 year olds were out there and teenage brain got in gear and it just snow-balled.
I agree -- but that to me summarizes Fuzzy when he disengages his brain and just has his idea of old-fashioned fun. Like making watermelon jokes about black people. 99% of the time I think he would be a fun person to hang out with. But I wouldn't do it because of the other 1%. Same with Bob Knight, but in a much different way. And it's probably closer to 80-20 with him.
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