Letter: Hunting column took some pot shots

Re: “Within city limits hunting is a no-no,” Anita Brenner’s Around Town column, Nov. 13. The first paragraph in Brenner’s column opens with “Camouflage-clad hunters armed with bows and arrows park on our streets and sneak onto our city trails.”

The column goes on with disparaging remarks about those “clowns” and invaders with a “room temperature-IQ” and warns us to “wear bright orange when you walk your dog in the morning. Add some blinking lights” unless we want to be mistaken “for a buck.” The column continues with innuendoes and ambiguous remarks ending with a final paragraph, “There is no excuse for hunters invading our city and breaking its laws.”

I am in total agreement with our city code prohibiting shooting the bow (or any other weapon) on city-owned property. Has anyone seen any arrows being shot on city-owned property? or “...killing our local deer,” or “shooting a doe with a bunch of arrows,” as stated in the column?

This column appears to have been written emotionally with bias, void of facts with a fear factor thrown in to rile up us natives.

Roy Dill

La Cañada Flintridge