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All the terrorists aren’t in Libya. They don’t all belong to the Red Army Brigade, the PLO or the BaderMeinhoff Gang.
We have terrorists right here in Rappahannock. They ride the back roads in pick-up trucks, loaded rifles and shotguns poking out of a window. It doesn’t matter if the deer they see is on posted property— they shoot it anyway. And God help the landowner that tries to stop them.
Terrorists were behind the wheel of a dozen or so trucks—all with Culpeper license plates—that cruised the Castleton area over the weekend. They shot three deer on one posted farm, firing at random until the residents on the farm house huddled in fear that a stray bullet might strike a human target. Two of the illegally killed deer were left to rot in the field.
Confronted by the landowner at another farm, the terrorists punched him in the nose. The landowner can’t positively identify his assailant but even if he could, he has too much fear of retaliation to swear out a warrant.
When a driver (a landowner! tried to pass a road block set up by the terrorists, she was run into the ditch. Another landowner was harassed by anonymous phone calls that related to an earlier incident with these slob hunters.
The Rappahannock sheriff’s department was overwhelmed the entire weekend by appeals from frightened and angry landowners to do something about the illegal road hunters not just in Castleton but all across the county. Two additional game wardens were sent to Rappahannock to assist local Jim Bankston in answering calls and combating the avalanche of hunters that hits the county after midDecember when the season closes west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Nothing helped. The hands of law enforcement officials are tied unless they see someone in the act of firing from the road. It's not enough to catch some roughneck with a loaded gun on the front seat and a dead deer in the back of his truck parked on a road plastered on both sides with “no hunting’’ and “no trespassing” signs.
Rappahannock is an island of safety for these road hunting terrorists. The surrounding counties have enacted ordinances that make it illegal to carry a loaded rifle or shotgun in a motor vehicle or on a public right-of-way without written permission to hunt from landowners on both sides of that right-of-way.
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