Bird watchers find car windscreen smashed

James A. Tyrrell

May 1st 2010, 17:03

@Johnny Xerri. I can understand your frustrations Johnny but surely the people you have a beef with here are not CABS but your own Government. You say that innocent tourists have nothing to worry about but what was there about this car, which said CABS as opposed to tourist?

There are many people like yourself Johnny who have invested a lot of money in their hobby and I can't understand why genuine hunters like yourself are not doing more to bring to justice those who are bringing your sport into disrepute. As I said I used to be a hunter myself and although I no longer do it I don't think that gives me the right to try and stop you from doing it. As I understand it CABS are not there or certainly shouldn't be there to interfere with legal hunting. The only reason they are there in the first place is because of the rogue elements within your sport who basically blast anything and everything out of the sky, protected or not.

James A. Tyrrell

May 1st 2010, 12:16

@MARK MIFSUD BONNICI. Your point being what exactly? Lets forget for a moment that members of the CABS were driving the vehicle in question. The vehicle was a hire car so the logical assumption to make is that it was being driven by a tourist who had stopped for a moment to perhaps take a photograph or look around the area. Are you saying that if you found such a car blocking your gateway, rather than do what a normal person would do and try and find the idiot who had parked it there and ask them to move it, you would put a 50-kilo stone into the windscreen?

I used to be a hunter myself Mark so I can see things from both sides of the divide. I don't agree for example with the way the Government has treated hunters over the spring hunting issue. I know the hunters have issues especially with groups like CABS but attacks like this are playing straight into the hands of those who want a total ban on hunting. It's only a matter of time before these idiots attack some innocent tourists.

MARK MIFSUD BONNICI

May 1st 2010, 10:07

James A Tyrrell
you investigating skills falied to notice that the car is blocking a gate.

James A. Tyrrell

Apr 30th 2010, 22:05

@John Matthews. Interesting subject John but no. I'm just an ex cop trained to observe.

Sylvana Zarb Darmanin

Apr 30th 2010, 20:17

Illegalities must be condemned whether these come from poachers, birdwatchers (or rather hunterwatchers), criminals, irresponsible drivers, tax-evaders etc. To all those showing their hatred towards hunters I have this to say:

Imagine that CABS decide to extend their activity to other areas.
- A Maltese citizen decides to illegally park on yellow lines. A CABS official approaches this car, takes a photo and calls in the warden;
- Another Maltese citizen decides to throw a cigarette-butt on the floor, again a CABS official takes a photo and hands it to the police;
- A Maltese driver over-speeds while a CABS official records him on video which he then passes on to the police.

What do certain antis on this blog who might have acted illegally as mentioned above have to say! Would they invite the CABS official over for dinner and welcome him with champagne. I am sure they will react in an aggressive manner and we will end up condemning them for such a reaction!!

Dear antis, this is what you are defending. I reiterate that we have OUR Police Force who should deal with OUR illegalties!!

Sylvana Zarb Darmanin

Apr 30th 2010, 20:05

Chris Finch, the more you comment the deeper you are getting! Do my comments bother you so much that you are having nightmares about me?! A look at comments on this blog will definitely reveal who is the most civilised! The arrogance, hatred and lowerly language being adopted by the antis clearly reveal the bad element amongst certain antis! Finchy, you are still living in your world of make-belief! First you could not down the ECJ decision, then you started playing with the number of hunters, now it is "Ban hunting now." Keep on dreaming. The hunters are united and will not relent until they get what is rightfully theirs. Their families and many others will back them on this. The ECJ has provided the necessary tools for the opening of the Spring Hunting Season. It is only a matter of time till we have a Prime Minister who is capable to make full use of these tools!

Joe Borg

Apr 30th 2010, 15:39

Minn jaf...forsi kien hemm xi gamiema ghadejja fil-baxx u peress il-kaccatur ma setax johrog bis-senter wadbilha gebla u biz-zball kien hemm karrozza u laqatha u il-gamiema salvat hajjietha:-)

M. Cardona

Apr 30th 2010, 15:28

We have actually become so "civilized" as to allow rampant abuse of laws "trespassing, right to privacy, data protection" in order to enforce others. We are now manifestly so "civilized" cause we bend over to accommodate trouble seekers who instigate and cause frictions whereas they could be denied entry on account of the unrest they are provoking . We have become the ultimate "civilized" because now we have an NGO whose foreign members patrol, instigate and investigate, trespass onto and apprehend Maltese nationals on Maltese soil. Ironically, the very same Maltese soil their forefathers sought to invade and the very same soil ours defended.

On a different theme, the unfair policy redress as local and EU bureaucracy and departments become evermore infiltrated by the anti-hunting faction, further fuelled by one sided presentation of facts (fomented by biased news hungry media), unequal access to the policy making structure (both on the local and EU sphere), and net-worked and fund supported anti-hunting stratagems, may be leading to a general feeling of injustice as arbitration to these opposing opinions is so evidently imbalanced. Possibly, hence these alleged improper reactions.

Furthermore, CABS members are not bird-watchers but simply anti-hunters as their name evidently implies!

MARK MIFSUD BONNICI

Apr 30th 2010, 14:10

CABS is also a BIRD PROTECTION organization. Which in short means it is out to protect Birds. Nothing wrong with that one would say. However whether the birds in question can be legally shot in accordance with EU regulations make no differnece to CABS.

In fact their name CABS end in "S" since it refers to "SLAUGHTER". So the hunting of any bird that can legally be hunted also meets their opposition. How anyone can consider their evaluation of the situation in Malta as being unbiased is beyond comprehension.

CABS in fact stated that they will not relent in their activities until "MALTA BECOMES A HUNTING-FREE ZONE" now how does that sound to all hunters that observe the law?

EXTREMISTS HAVE NO PLACE IN A DEMOCRACY.

Chris Finch

Apr 30th 2010, 14:07

It is unbelievable that the hunters first of all deny that any illegal hunting ever takes place, and now when faced with conclusive photographic evidence, deny that this windscreen was smashed with this big rock. Look at the marks on the bonnet.

These continued incidents, their denial and refusal to condemn them by the hunters are really showing us the mentality of these people.

Come on government, please this is 2010. Ban hunting now. OK there will be between 7 and 10,000 people (depending on whose figures you believe and Sylvana, I am including you in the 10,000) who will be upset, but they will get over it. For the sake of the other 440,000 (No Sylvana this figure doesn't include you) civilise our country.

Charles Muscat

Apr 30th 2010, 13:58

Was it meant to be a meteorite?

Anthony Formosa

Apr 30th 2010, 13:33

I do not really know who is under attack if the hunters or the CABS., looking at the picture and with little common sense one can observe at least to things against physics, the stone should have stopped from sliding with the windscreen wiper, and the other thing is that I expect that a 50 kg stone (Tal-Franka) should leave some debris on the ground with such an impact.

James A. Tyrrell

Apr 30th 2010, 13:22

@Francis Buhagiar. The stone did not bounce as such. It was thrown against the windscreen which is as you know is laminated. The windscreen broke absorbing the impact and the stone fell backwards onto the bonnet. It then slid down the bonnet as can be seen from the scratches hit the road and by the look of it turned end over end once.

Francis Buhagiar

Apr 30th 2010, 10:53

I ask, how come a 50 kilo stone bounced two meters away from the car and haven't finished inside the car?
Frans Buhagiar.

N.Lawrence

Apr 30th 2010, 10:48

So the vandals damaged property, OWNED BY A MALTESE. The vehicle was not owned by CABS. Just goes to show the lateral thinking employed by these, err--- people(?)

Lawrence Fenech

Apr 30th 2010, 10:27

Forsi kien xi ghasfur jittajjar fil-baxx.

I Cassar

Apr 30th 2010, 10:00

“Police units alerted by CABS arrested two alleged poachers”. Why don't we ever hear that the Police managed to apprehend poachers by it's own accord. Are our police forces so complicity inept.

As to the smashed windscreen well if it was not the aliens.....

@ CABS. Thank you from most Maltese for your contribution in protecting our natural heritage. Keep it up.