Attica man charged after hunting accident
January 22, 2014
By Erika Platt-Handru – Staff Writer The Advertiser-Tribune
An Attica man has been charged with negligent hunting in connection to an accident that injured another hunter in December.
According to court documents, Donald C. Martin, 64, has been charged with negligent, careless or reckless hunting, a first-degree misdemeanor, for an accident Dec. 3 in which a man was shot in the foot.
According to documents from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Martin had been shooting a coyote that was between him and a companion hunter when a round struck the other man in the foot. The pair had been deer hunting with other hunters when the coyote emerged from the woods.
Martin told law enforcement he believed the round had ricocheted and struck the man. The victim was transported to Mercy Willard Hospital by private vehicle where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
According to ODNR documents, Martin had been properly licensed and permitted for deer hunting.
The ODNR has recommend Tiffin Municipal Court impose a $250 fine and a one-year hunting license revocation. Martin is scheduled to appear next week for an arraignment.
Exposing the Big Game 
I had a contractor at my house not long ago. Seemed like a super nice guy. His heritage is Italian, like mine, so we had a lot in common until…and I know you know where this is going… He told me he is a hunter. That’s when my anger came out. He told me he shot a bear. I said, “Why? Why did you murder an innocent animal.” and he said, “For the food.” and I said, “Bullshit! You didn’t eat that bear.” That’s when he laughed and said, “You’re right, but I got a nice rug out of it.” My heart sank.
Oh, how I can relate to this. I HATE having to have workmen come to my home here in Hillbilly Central. First they scratch their crotch and spit, then they say, “Must got a lot of game (pronounced “gayam”) around here.” I can see their tiny pea-brains rustily working, planning to come back at a future date and murder my neighbors. So of course I always say no, there’s nothing. The one thing we have to have done every year is getting our chimney cleaned. We’ve had the most wonderful man, a Native American, for the past 7 or 8 years. But he’s retiring. How, oh HOW am I ever going to find another decent chimney cleaner?
I don’t know, but I wish you and your wild neighbors luck in finding one.
My heart goes out to you.
Why can’t these people just appreciate nature. What is it with their incessant need to murder? You know like, “Oh look there’s a deer. How beautiful.”
But what happened to the coyote? Alive, dead, wounded?
I’m hoping completely missed. These types clearly don’t hit the intended target all that often.
I think it is somewhat unfair to make a statement that all hunters fit the same profile. Some are idiots, some careless and some who likely are very dangerous. However, I would like to think there are many educated, educated and trained individuals there as well. If not we would see a lot more accidents, we see very few as far as I know in Canada.
As far as food, not sure who would eat a bear, but I suspect there are also responsible hunters who do eat all they get.
While I do not agree with it, I think it is unfair to paint them all with the same brush.
Think what you like.
Brian, if they don’t speak out against the Nimrods….the “contests” participants…the poachers….the trophy and “sport hunters”‘….trappers and snarers…. etc., then they allow themselves to be lumped in with all the rest, thus making them “all the same”.
Good point Gail.
Yeah, and not all Nazis were ignorant, thick-necked thugs. Some were refined, educated, highly intelligent, skilled managers, loving parents, fawning pet owners, and even had personal moral qualms about what they were doing to defenseless peoples arbitrarily labeled as enemies of the state. The bottom line, however, is that they bought into and were complicit in the functioning of an intrinsically evil system even if they did not personally engage in every single crime committed by the Third Reich. The true “subsistence hunter” (of which there are vanishingly few in the continental United States) with his taxes, his membership in organizations like the NRA and local fish and game clubs, and, most tellingly, his refusal to loudly and unequivocally condemn trophy and bow hunting, fur trapping, killing contests, and the like, supports and legitimates an evil enterprise every bit as morally indefensible and reprehensible as the worst genocidal regimes in history. Whether a hunter is an accurate shot or not, whether he is well trained in field craft or not, whether he obeys the law or not, whether he considers himself a conservationist or not, is quite irrelevant and a paltry excuse for being an enabler and accessory to the modern-day savagery routinely visited upon wildlife in this country.
According to documents from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Martin had been shooting a coyote that was between him and a companion hunter when a round struck the other man in the foot. The pair had been deer hunting with other hunters when the coyote emerged from the woods.
Our society doesn’t value wildlife, and it shows by these incredibly light sentences these nitwits get. He couldn’t even take the safety of his fellow hunters into consideration! If nothing else, that should merit a harsher sentence. And he wasn’t out hunting coyotes, he was hunting deer. Gotta shoot something, I suppose.
I will never for the life of me understand how a man/woman who takes an animals life can claim to be a conservationist.