November 11, 2020
On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at approximately 6:15 a.m., fire and rescue personnel from St. Mary’s and Charles Counties responded to the 43000 block of Medleys Neck Road and Poplar Hill Creek Lane in Leonardtown, for a high angle rescue with an injured hunter in a tree stand.
Crews arrived on the scene to find an adult male hanging upside down by his safety harness, approximately 30 feet up the tree.
Firefighters from Leonardtown, Valley Lee, Hollywood, Seventh District, NAS Patuxent River and Waldorf operated on the scene with rescue equipment to lower the victim to the ground.
The victim was then transported to an awaiting ambulance approximately a quarter mile away by UTV 5.
Crews reported the hunters stand malfunctioned and collapsed. Luckily, he was wearing a safety harness which saved him from a 30+…
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Exposing the Big Game 
While the hunter showed some smarts placing his stand three stories above the ground, he made a huge mistake tethering himself with a so-called safety harness. Just like wearing a mask ensures a person will get COVID-19 or suffocate to death, the heavy safety-harness guarantees that it will pull the hunter out of his chair, breaking legs and leaving him twisting in the wind. He would have saved himself and emergency crews a lot of trouble by following standard practices to avoid supposed “safety” equipment. Think about how many people have drowned because they couldn’t release their seatbelt after driving off a bridge into a river. “Safety” is for suckers and losers! Hunters have rights and need to ignore government mandates and advice!