50-year-old Knoxville man now recovering in Montgomery Co.
By WHAG
A 50-year-old man is in the hospital after a hunting accident near the Monocacy River in Frederick County Saturday evening.
According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police, Patrick Knight from Knoxville, Md. was hunting near the 2800 block of Monocacy Bottom Road, when we fell nearly 20 feet from his tree stand and landed on his back.
Frederick County Fire and Rescue, as well as Carroll Manor Fire Company, brought Knight by air boat to the nearest access point for him to be taken to the Suburban Hospital in Montgomery County.
Knight is currently in the hospital with severe injuries.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police are continuing to investigate.
Exposing the Big Game 
He’d be alive & kicking if only he stayed home.
The hunting season here in Italy opened 2 weeks ago and we already had many hunting accidents. Stop hunting and nobody gets hurt
Echoes of Captain Paul Watson: “I love hunting accidents and every time I read or hear of some Ignorant nimrod who shoots himself, or falls out of a deer blind, or who blows himself up with a stick of dynamite, I think, ah, another Darwin Award, and the world is just a little safer for the victims.”
Quoted in Jim Robertson, “Exposing the Big Game,” p. 4.
I thought about including Captain Watson’s quote in this post. Thanks for beating me to it.
I hope this waste of space lives with pain for the rest of his useless life.
“was hunting when he fell nearly 20 feet from his tree stand and landed on his back.”
That sounds like some really exhausting hunting. Now I guess they’ll all go out and destroy some tree stands to make up for the injury to this gentleman. Good!
Yeah, they’ll have to euthanize a few trees.
I’ve always wondered who picks up the bill for rescues like this. I’m not sure I want to know, as I’m already sickened by the story. An image came to me as I read: the killer plummeting out of the tree stand and landing impaled on some sharp spiny broken tree. Wishful thinking, I guess.
Actually I got a call (from Idaho!) asking for a contribution to a group who goes out in the fall to rescue hunters in trouble. Boy, did they call the wrong person!
That’s a good one.