Chopper drops 4 rhino poachers

This article is a couple of weeks old, but has some more information about GPS use and a red-and-white helicopter that sounds like it refers to Dawie Groenewald and the Out of Africa gang.

Sounds like they never heard of the old adage, "Don't s**t where you eat".

These people wouldn't know how to stay cool if you packed them in ice. I suppose they thought their bad ass persona would intimidate all their neighbors.

Good luck on trying to intimidate the Boere for very long!

Cheers,

~Alan



Marietie Louw-Carstens, Beeld

Johannesburg - A helicopter with a covered registration reportedly dropped off four suspected rhino poachers in the Roedtan area in Limpopo on Tuesday.

André Snyman of the crime fighting initiative eBlockwatch said the red-and-white helicopter circled over various game farms in the area.

It was seen over the Morgenson farm in particular.

According to Snyman, the helicopter landed at some stage and dropped off four suspects.

A rhino cow was shot dead and her horns sawn off in the area about two weeks ago.

The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) met with farmers in the Roedtan area on Friday to establish a network to catch rhino poachers.

Farmers and trackers fine-combed the area on Tuesday.

During the EWT meeting, farmers and owners of game farms said they have a huge problem with helicopters flying over their farms in search of rhinos. Such helicopters have also been spotted in the Thabazimbi area.

Riaan de Jager of Limpopo's department of environmental affairs said they are working closely with the Civil Aviation Authority to catch the guilty parties.

Faan Coetzee of the EWT said the poaching syndicates use GPS devices to determine where on the farms the rhinos are.

I was hoping that subject title meant that a chopper, with a gunner, killed 4 rhino poachers.

Perhaps we need to take up a collection to purchase stinger missiles for some of those farmers? That'd cut down on chopper use!

Sorry to dash your hopes. I just copied the headline without thinking about it, but it was probably the intention of the newspaper to give that impression to get people to read the article.

I agree with you 100% about shooting down the poacher's choppers, but as corrupt and backwards as ANC justice is in South Africa, you would probably be arrested for being a mercenary.

It would be a gift from God to drop one of these choppers, kill everyone on board, and have it full of evidence incriminating all of the guilty parties.

Cheers,

~Alan

Sounds like plain greed and the almighty buck.

Mike

Thanks Mike,

I think you have come up with a new slogan that says it much clearer so we can all understand:

"First for Plain Greed and the Almighty Buck."

~Alan

quote:

Originally posted by DLS:
I was hoping that subject title meant that a chopper, with a gunner, killed 4 rhino poachers.

Perhaps we need to take up a collection to purchase stinger missiles for some of those farmers? That'd cut down on chopper use!

I was hoping someone took 4 poachers up to say 500 feet and dropped them. SPLAT, SPLAT SPLAT, SPLAT!