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There's a joke (I first saw it in late 2002, on an office door of my old county extension office) about how easy it would be for rednecks (sometimes a specific state is mentioned, sometimes not) to find Osama bin Laden and take down al Qaeda. It usually says something like, "Just tell them the following things: 1) There is no "bag limit". 2) They're responsible for Dale Earnhardt's death. 3) They hate Jesus. 4) [Something I forget]. This will be accomplished within a week." It's a little tired by now, but still kinda funny.
It takes on a whole new meaning, with this post I found (via the Daily Dish):
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters.
Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay.
But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan’s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
The commenters raise some very good points against this idea, but it's still interesting.
It takes on a whole new meaning, with this post I found (via the Daily Dish):
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters.
Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay.
But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan’s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
The commenters raise some very good points against this idea, but it's still interesting.