Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Idaho rancher killed by deputies over a wounded bull.

Lol...all cops are bad and everybody who owns a cow is good.

Just found this on the "Idaho New Republic" blog, sounds very credible:


"The entire operation was an ATF sting. All parties were undercover agents; the deputies, the occupants of the Subaru, and even the Bull... (he was REAL undercover) all agents.
The entire thing was staged to draw the rancher out of his house to assassinate him. The wife set it up, and her "heart attack" is just a ruse to protect her true identity...yep, she is a long term undercover agent who married the rancher 27 years ago when the investigation started..."

He deserved to die. That's how this'll go. Wait and see.

pre-emptive. Good. Well met.

It takes away from everyone saying repeatedly that we should wait for the facts - because they won't matter.

I'm still waiting to see if the police are a problem for you in your area.





Travis

It's common knowledge that cows have INCREDIBLY good judgement of character.

You really can't make this schit up.

Only on the Campfire can you find idiots that will "stand with safariman in a firefight to the death", who readily give out their personal information willy-nilly to unknown people for the most ridiculous of reasons, and yet who believe that facts aren't needed to determine what happened in an incident like this situation.

Waiting for the facts seems far beyond the pale and perhaps beyond comprehension around here.

Maybe he did.

One cop had injuries from the conflict. Did he shoot himself or crap his pants?

facts don't matter.

Despite the annual number of fatalities caused by police remaining the same since Ford, with only a fluctuation depending on whether or not the President is R or D (360 per year versus 380 per year, average), what really matters is inciting total dumbphuckery based on social media drama that all of them are caused by jack boots, and the number - despite being the same - is rising exponentially.


Get with it.

"Somebody said he was the kind of guy that wouldn't back down, and I think that would be a good euphemistic way to put it," said Dale Fisk, who said he had known Yantis his whole life. Fisk is also the editor of the local paper, the Adams County Record.




Hmmm, kinda sounds like the "you ain't shooting my prized bull, I don't care about no Subaru driving folks bleeding" scenario fits more and more.

ISP investigating. Emergency crews on the scene; likely witnesses there. Possible other witnesses if any other vehicles were around.

Can't wait for those pesky little facts, though; HAVE to assume that a county with maybe 10 deputies that has never had an officer-involved fatal shooting is somehow home to "Rambo-cops" and "SWAT teams" that are just itching to kill someone over any perceived slight at all.

Question: who is liable in this type of accident in Idaho?

The rancher who owned the bull for failure to have it fenced in, or the driver of the auto for failure to avoid it?

That was covered earlier, driver.

Discussed earlier.

In a free range state, the driver is at fault.

Idaho qualifies.

here:

IDAHO CODE GENERAL LAWS
TITLE 25. ANIMALS
CHAPTER 21. ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE

25-2118. Animals on open range -- No duty to keep from highway
No person owning, or controlling the possession of, any domestic animal running on open range, shall have the duty to keep such animal off any highway on such range, and shall not be liable for damage to any vehicle or for injury to any person riding therein, caused by a collision between the vehicle and the animal. "Open range" means all uninclosed lands outside of cities, villages and herd districts, upon which cattle by custom, license, lease, or permit, are grazed or permitted to roam.

A couple articles mentioned that a dispatcher calledYantis to inform him he had a bull out in the road that was hit. At least one article stated the dispatcher requested he come and help take care of the situation.

One might have even intimated that the dispatcher asked him to help put the bull down.

ok, thanks. Couldn't really bring myself to go through all 3 pages of this.

Really thought someone would have found a way to blame the initial accident on the cops.

Looks like this 2 me. If I wanted my bull moved....cowdogs,horses,birdshot,ropes, stock trailer would be needed. To euthanize bull, 22 mag to 30 30 would be needed. To piss off cops high powered rifle, wife, nephew and or what not. Risk of richochet too great with high velocity weapons. Obviously he should've stayed home.