First of all, JMHO, I would say "喜欢打猎的朋友可要小心了" couldn't reflect the whole issue. Actually, all the wilderness users (hunters, anglers, campers, hikers, bird watcher, ATV riders...etc) should execute caution in the great outdoor, especially when the hunting season opened, mating season of big animals (deer, bear...etc) and there are always coyotes and wolves too!

Futhermore, I would like to post the original English version of the news, since the above Chinese heading had already assumed the 老妇被一名猎手误当猎物开枪打死。

That was a very bad assumption since the woman might be killed by stray bullet, ricochette, misfire...I'm not saying anything for the careless HUNTER, but according to the news I read, [quote]...The cause of death(of the woman) is yet to be determined. [/quote]

[quote] TOSORONTIO WOMAN DIES IN HUNTING ACCIDENT
(Adjala-Tosorontio Twp, On)

On the 6th of November 2006 at approximately 2:45 p.m., Nottawasaga OPP officers rushed to the scene of a reported hunting accident with a seriously injured a woman in the Simcoe Forest west of the 2nd Concession of Adjala-Tosorontio Twp, just north of the 5th Sideroad.

When Paramedics and police located the woman approximately 500 metres into the bush area, her vital signs were absent. Marianne Schmid, 67 years old of the 3rd Concession of Adjala -Tosorontio was reportedly out for her daily walk in the same forest as she did every day when the incident occurred. Next of kin have been notified.

Nottawasaga O.P.P. Crime Unit are continuing the investigation under the direction of Detective Inspector Larry Reesor of the O.P.P. Criminal Investigation Branch.

The cause of death is yet to be determined. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 at the Office of the Chief Coroner in Toronto.[/quote]

[quote]

Woman killed in hunting accident
Nov. 7, 2006. 07:51 PM
LINDA NGUYEN
STAFF REPORTER

A 60-year-old hunter has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and careless use of a firearm after a woman was killed Monday in a hunting accident, police say.

Marianne Schmid, 67, was found with a single gunshot wound to her stomach in Simcoe Forest in Adjala-Tosorontio Township, a 45-minute drive north-west of Toronto.

Police responding to a 911 call about a reported hunting accident found a woman about 500 metres in the bush area with no vital signs, Nottawasaga OPP said.

It is believe the woman was out on her daily walk when the accident occurred, police said.

Fredrick Paul Thomas, 60, of Keswick, Ont., will appear in a Bradford court on Dec. 21. [/quote]

The victum's family seems like decent people. They are not calling for gun bans or hunting bans or demanding to meet with the Prime Minister. They are not calling it an accident either. You can see the different of the Engish version and Chinese version of a same story...

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Wary hiker killed in woods
Criminal negligence charge laid
Forest near Tottenham a favourite spot
Nov. 8, 2006. 07:30 AM
JIM WILKES
STAFF REPORTER
The Toronto Star

Marianne Schmid loved to walk the leafy paths of the lush public forest near her home west of Tottenham.

But the 67-year-old hiker never made the daily trek during hunting season, her family says, because she was wary of hunters shooting at deer or wild turkeys that amble through the pines a 45-minute drive north of Toronto.

Schmid didn't know hunting season had begun on Monday, and, despite wearing a red sweater and jeans, was shot dead by a hunter who thought she was wild game wandering the woods that afternoon.

Her husband, Walter, who was worried when she didn't return home, took his 2-year-old grandson for a ride to find her and ended up identifying her body in the back of an ambulance by the side of the road.

Police last night charged a Keswick man with criminal negligence causing death in the incident.

"She was my everything," Schmid said yesterday in the stone and wood home he and Marianne built themselves in the late 1960s, even as she was pregnant with son Toby, now 36.

"It's stupidity," he said.

"We'll never — never — recover what was destroyed by that one shot."

Schmid said his wife had phoned the OPP just last week, "because she had a scare with someone shooting" in the forest.

He said she stopped walking in the forest when hunting season began each autumn. But because the dates of the season change from year to year, they didn't realize it began on Monday.

He said she had encountered bow hunters earlier this fall, when their hunting season was in full swing.

"But they shoot at closer range, so they can see their targets more clearly."

Officers from the Nottawasaga detachment of Ontario Provincial Police were called to the Simcoe Regional Forest late Monday afternoon to answer a call about a woman who was injured. They found Schmid dead from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, deep in the forest off the 2nd Concession of Adjala-Tosorontio Township, north of Highway 9, a few kilometres east of Mono Mills.

"I keep hearing that this was a tragic hunting accident," said Schmid's son, Toby. "This wasn't an accident.

"A tree falling on her would be an accident. I thought the cardinal rule for responsible hunters was that you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger."

Walter agreed.

"We don't understand how anybody could confuse her with a deer," he said, standing on the second floor of the family home, at the end of a long driveway that winds through a woodlot of pine, cedar and fir on the 3rd Concession.

"We're not against hunting, but this is not a hunting accident."

Walter came to Canada from Germany in 1957 and Marianne followed the next year, even though she was too young to emigrate alone under German law.

"She snuck away to Canada to marry me," he said, summoning a small smile. "We built this house together. She cut the stone herself and carried it up a ladder when she was pregnant to build the chimney.

"We still had big plans, very big plans. Everything we did was because of her."

Schmid said his wife drove to the forest each day for a hike along the path that loops through the trees. He took a video of her playing in the fallen leaves with 2-year-old grandson Max just moments before she put the youngster down for a nap and headed off for her walk on Monday.

"She was wearing a red turtleneck sweater — red of all colours," Toby said. "She left her coat behind because it was such a nice day.

"And they make it mandatory for hunters to wear orange vests."

Walter said his wife was "a real jock."

"I couldn't keep up with her," he said

Toby said his mother was an avid scuba diver, hiker, skier, kayaker and windsurfer.

"She could leave young punks behind on the water — myself included," he said.

The last fatal hunting incident in Ontario was in December 2004, when a 62-year-old hunter shot two men as they set up decoys near Kohler, outside Hamilton.

The hunter apparently mistook them for ducks, despite the bright orange hat and coats they wore, required under Ontario law.

Hunting accidents in Ontario have dramatically declined over the years — there were just two in the province last year and neither was deadly.

But Robert Pye, spokesperson for the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, said the fatal shooting is "deeply disturbing ... it's just a shocking incident."

"Hunters in Ontario are required to have a minimum of 20 hours of firearms and hunter education safety training and over a million people have gone through the training (in the past 50 years)," Pye said.

"That's why we are so shocked, because hunting has enjoyed an incredible safety track record, particularly the last 10 years or so. The safety record for hunters has been near flawless for the last three or four years."

A Ministry of Natural Resources official noted the deer hunt in the area where Schmid was shot is designated a so-called "controlled hunt" where hunters can only use shotguns, firing slugs rather than pellets, or black powder weapons whose projectiles don't travel as far as a bullet fired from a high-power hunting rifle.

Frederick Paul Thomas, 60, of Keswick, faces charges of criminal negligence causing death and careless use of a firearm. He is to appear in Bradford court Dec. 21.

FILES FROM RICHARD BRENNAN AND VICTORIA KENT [/quote]

[quote]因为她知道猎人的子弹不长眼睛[/quote]???What's this means?

The guy who pulled the trigger deserve a long jail time and no hunting and guns for the life time, but painting all the responsible hunters with a board brush is as irresponsible as the accused killer!<!-- / message -->