There was a big uproar over supposed “Bambi Hunts”, where men “hunted” naked or near=naked women, using paintballs.
It was eventually all said to be a hoax, but I’d be very surprised if someone didn’t actually do this. If they hadn’t thought of it before this story became big news, they certainly were introduced to the idea. There certainly are enough people out there open to the idea od such sex-tinged human hunting. And it needn’t be limited to guys hunting women.
Certainly they’re still selling videos purporting to show such hunts. They’re easy to find with a search engine.
Governor Macquarie of New South Wales reportedly authorised the use of firearms by any settlers approached by natives; there are also records of advertisements being placed in local papers offering to shoot Australian natives for a fee, ignored by the local law enforcement; the same order offering the bounty you mentioned also permitted the shooting of anyone who resisted capture; raids were carried out on settlements due to such things as chicken stealing, and somtimes simply gave a number of people who were to be killed, with no concern whatsoever if those killed were the same as those accused.
I’m sorry, but there are far too many records of random killing of Australian natives to simply hand wave away as ‘didn’t happen’.
Ahh, I think what I read must have been a mention of those newspaper ads. Any idea when the last ones existed? I had a fuzzy recollection of “around 1970”, but I could be way off.
Not sure, not in the 1900s though- 1970 was IIRC when Native Australians gained full legal rights, but I’m pretty sure any quasi-legal killing stopped quite a long time before then.
Apparently African Pygmies were regarded as subhuman and hunted by rebel and loyalist militias during the Congolese Civil War. Their flesh was believed to have magical properties by some factions, while others used cannibalism to extend their food supplies. Albinos also have a string of rotten luck, with Tanzanians targeting them to such a degree that many have fled to islands in Lake Victoria. The body parts of an albino can fetch hefty amounts on the black market, due to the belief that they are very powerful in magic.
If that’s true I’m sorry for spreading misinformation, but I’ve read that he did indeed hunt his victims from other sources. I forgot the man’s name, so I googled “Alaskan serial killer hunter”, clicked the wiki article, skimmed it to see it was who I was thinking of, and then posted the link.
Even if he didn’t actually hunt his victims (I think he likely did, but it may be up for dispute), I think it gets the OP a bit closer to what he’s looking for than bushmen raiding each other, etc like the rest of the discussion seems to be going for… my take on the OP is he/she is looking for good ol’ boy modern hunters who are searching for “the most dangerous game of all”.
Each one of these organizational groups organized legal roving search-out-and-murder bands. To me that sounds like human hunting. I left out the Soviets and the Chinese, of course.
Again, that doesn’t explain what your point was - by which I mean the reason you started you post with “So?”, since I never said anything to contra-indicate that it happened elsewhere.
Surprised no one mentioned this yet, but one historical case of “human hunting” is that of John Colter, a member of the Lewis & Clark expedition who was later captured by Blackfoot Indians in 1809:
I registered to this page just to ask you (and probably correct you) : do you mean Marshall (the politician) or did you meant MARTIAL law?
Of course they have two totally different meanings. You just pronunce them in a slightly similar way
Astrid1, welcome to the boards. Since Blake last posted in 2016, I am pretty sure he is not going to respond, or be concerned about the correction. He clearly intended “martial” law. We prefer that old threads in General Questions only be revived to provide new factual information, not to make minor corrections to 8-year old posts. Therefore I am closing this.
