My dad sent me this, don't know how true it is but it sounds like something they would do.
This is a week old, but it's hilarious. From the the local Columbus newspaper: Associated Press Nov 2001.
If you are familiar with PETA, then you are aware of the fact that they will do almost anything to protect animals. This year's efforts to save Ohio's deer from the annual statewide gun season backfired.
For safety's sake, hunters in Ohio are required by law to display at least 400 square inches of hunter's blaze orange on their person when in the woods. Capitalizing on the fact that hunters do not usually shoot orange, PETA recently bulk purchased blaze orange vests and have been affixing them to live-trapped deer in Youngstown suburbs. According to PETA spokesperson Katie Reese, a total of 405 vests were successfully put into circulation prior to this week, with additional specimens still being caught and vested.
Youngstown entrepreneur Guy Lockey, of Guy's Outdoors, has spit in the face of PETA by offering rewards for the returned vests this week. Hunters who successfully bag a vested deer receive $5 and a chance for a random and biggest animal award.
As of Tuesday, 308 of the vests had already been recorded as bagged wwith most of the hunters registering for Mr. Lockey's drawing.
"It's so easy, you can see them coming a mile away" said one first year hunter after checking in his first spike.
ODNR officials are worried that the poorly thought out plan by PETA might get somebody shot instead of saving the deer. "Hunters have turned their plan upside down, we're just hoping that nobody gets hurt and are hoping that none of the vested animals get tangled in brush" said an unnamed ODNR official. "PETA has really outdone itself this time."
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