Basically, you log on, wait around for a deer (or whatever) and then start clicking furiously. Apparently right now you can shoot targets but not animals, but that’s coming soon.
According to their Web site, there’s someone watching to make sure you don’t kill anyone or anything that you’re not supposed to.
Is this baffling to anyone else? I thought the whole point of hunting was to actually have to go through the ritual of getting suited up, spending hours in the cold while wearing deer shit so they won’t detect you and usually going home empty-handed.
If I’m going to hunt game animals I at least owe them the respect of actually, you know, hunting the beasties.
This isn’t hunting, it’s just a disgustingly inefficient slaughtering method that’s guaranteed to result in woulded animals crawling off to suffer and die.
Man, I wish I could point to something in the article that gives it away as a hoax. There’s just something about adding “firing a loaded gun” to the list of things that can be done by anyone on the planet with an internet connection that you would think wouldn’t get past anyone’s frontal cortex. Maybe it’s the result of the light bulb going off in the guy’s brain.
My favorite part is the attendant who will retrieve the animal for you. Who wants this job? Wandering out within range of a remotely-controlled rifle that might be under the direction of any one of about half a billion people? Yeah, the boss said he’s sure the magazine’s empty – go on out there, he’s making a quick trip to the Hummer dealership.
I can hardly wait for Texas to apply this technology to their capital punishment apparatus.
Or for the first offshore porn emporium that lets you virtually/really inflict painful electric shocks on “consenting hot models.”
