Gamers to kill for real?

[Cass]

A Texan hunter wants to give computer gamers the chance to kill things for real with the click of a mouse.

John Lockwood has already hooked up guns to the internet to let people shoot targets on his Texas ranch.

Now he wants to let fans shoot live game through his website, live-shot.com, reports the New York Post.

Mr Lockwood intends to have the remote hunts running early next year with virtual hunters paying up to £40 an hour.

They will be be able to use their computer mouse to operate a camera and rifle pointed at a game feeder set up to attract animals.

Hunters would have to pay more if they kill an animal - up to £1,000 for a buck deer, although there is no guarantee they will see any game.


http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1194672.html?menu=

[koan]

Too bad the animals wouldn't have a chance to kill the hunters. I'd like to give them a little mouse and target range full of hunters. What sport that would be.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by >>^..^<<

A Texan hunter wants to give computer gamers the chance to kill things for real with the click of a mouse. ( ... ) They will be be able to use their computer mouse to operate a camera and rifle pointed at a game feeder set up to attract animals.]

Cor, how really, really sporting (*not*). Why not have a point'n'click in a slaughterhouse, instead?

Originally Posted by >>^..^<<

Hunters would have to pay more if they kill an animal - up to £1,000 for a buck deer, although there is no guarantee they will see any game.

Why no guarantee? Can't this person build a small wire enclosure with feed in it, and introduce farmed deer, removing the carcasses as needed? Perhaps it would be better to actually shoot a tethered animal, to make success more likely. Maybe, on second thoughts, pehaps a large land-mine under the feeder would be more certain.