Third hunter is expected to survive
WESTPORT, Mass. (AP) –
Authorities have identified two duck hunters who died and a third who was hospitalized after they fell into the frigid waters of the Westport River when their boat capsized.
The office of Bristol District Attorney Sam Sutter said 53-year-old Steven James of Marshfield and 55-year-old Robert Becher of Cromwell, Conn., died Tuesday.
The surviving hunter was identified as 51-year-old Gregg Angell of Westport. He was taken to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I., and is expected to survive.
Westport Harbormaster Richard Earle said the hunters’ skiff was found overturned at about 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert Simpson said the water temperature was about 35 degrees and the air temperature was about 8 degrees at the time.
The district attorney’s spokesman said the deaths are not considered suspicious.
The deaths remain under investigation.
http://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/3-hunters-found-after-boat-capsized-conditions-unknown
Exposing the Big Game 
That’s too bad…might teach people to leave Ducks alone! 😉
Let’s hope.
“The deaths remain under investigation”… do they suspect ducks may have something to do with this tragic dumb-and-dumber-incident?
I’m hearing ducks being shot at by these types as I write this…
A very depressing story (that one of three is expected to survive).
I’d be satisfied with 2 out of 3 of the duck hunters shooting out in the bay here right now.
In any thread regarding wolves in which both sides participate, there is likely going to be a reference to Bambi or Disney as the training ground of wolf advocates, usually introduced by the protectors of elk, deer, wimmin & chirren. What I cannot understand, however, is why the hunters get a free pass on their Warner Brothers basic training: Bugs, Elmer, Wiley Coyote, and Looney Toons. Certainly, these intrepid hunters, while accusing wolf-humpers of thinking that wolves are frugivores, show total belief in their Looney Tunes training that guns and bullets, and even long cliff-falls, are only a temporary inconvenience to the recipient. Acting as heroic ‘toons in their fantasies of being conservationists and being sole-saviors of wildlife (and arbiters of vermin), they operate as if “Everybody knows, you can’t kill a ‘toon.” However, they fail to understand that Judge Doom’s DIP (the stuff that can kill ‘toons from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”) has an equivalent in the real world of physical consequences–in this case, a dip in the Westport river, but in most cases, a dip-shit shooter blasting away at rustles and shadows.
The deadly DIP claims two more Elmers. Don’t despair, tomorrow will have another episode.
RIP. Rest In Purgatory.
Hooray for the ducks! Now if only such an accident would happen to those Duck Dynasty knuckleheads.