Attention Deer Hunters! posted 3/3/2009 7:09:51 PM | 6 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: deer hunting, safety, families, grief

luvmycats

A thread was started because of the results of a law suit I filed 3 years ago. I never thought I would file a law suit, I think there are way too many sue happy people in this country, but I changed my mind when my family, and I were affected.

The reason I did it was because I wanted the tree stands and "Safety Harnesses"

OFF THE MARKET!

Now a bit more of the story that some of you already know.

Oct. 15 2005 my family and I went camping/deer hunting at the property that my husband had bought for this purpuse, and to later build on when our kids were out of school. It was just perfect 10 acres, on a small lake, mostly wooded. We built a large shed for storage, and an outhouse. (My step daugther and I insisted on this.) We began mowing and clearing it, made a beautiful camp. My family only lived about 5 miles away, instead of 80 where we lived, so we had lots of family get togethers there around the camp fire. We built a small pier, so my nephew would have to step in the mud to go swimming!





Ok, enough of that. What happened on the 15th is what caused me to later file that suit.

My husband and I had woken up around 2:00 in the morning, and talked till about 4:00. When the alarm went off at 5:30 for him to go hunting, he said he was too sleepy. We went back to sleep until around 9:00. Got up had breakfast, and he decided to go ahead and go. (knowing they would be bedded down and he probably wound't see anything) But, being excited as this was the first time he was able to hunt on his own property...

He promised to be back in camp at 5:00. He took 2 bags of snacks with him, and headed for his tree. My son (15 at the time) went fishing. My daughter and I went to investigate some of the woods we hadn't had time for before. We came back to camp, and I started supper. At 5:00, I said "Tim, its time for supper, where are you?" 5:15: "I am starting to get pissed." 5:30: "I asked my son to go drag his butt out of that tree, I didn't care how much fun he was having." (he was the only one that knew exactly where he was) He came running back to camp screaming "MOM COME!" "MOM COME!" He coudn't say anything else. Of course I knew something was bad wrong, so my brother and I jumped in the truck to go. The kids got there before we did. When I came up over the hill and looked down, I seen my husband hanging from the tree. All I could do was fall to my knees screaming his name. I yelled at the kids to run to the neighbors and call 911. I began walking down the hill, but my brother stopped me. I think I knew then that he was dead, but couldn't accept it.

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