Police said members of a shooting party made up of families opened fire when Christos Constantinou, 49, moved through the undergrowth.

They are thought to have been confused by the fact the victim was disguised in dark goat skins, which are used to camouflage and to mislead their prey.

The groups had fanned out in pairs of two to track down an animal for the traditional festive dinner when the accident happened.

Police in the northern Greek town of Nemea, Chalkidiki, said Mr Constantinou was pronounced dead upon arrival at hospital.

Two unidentified men, aged 25 and 28, were detained and were being questioned.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...ead-during-hunt.html

Well how stupid can you get dressing up in animal skins , Thats taking camo one step further and really asking for what he got.

Regards
Alf

IIRC, the death toll of hunters in Italy alone this last season was around 35.

Just goes to show how well "policed" the UK is at times.

to be exact the antis say 38.

To be correct:
The following lines describe the considered hunting mortals accidents cases:
Decessi 2009 inseriti per errore nelle stime della caccia:
· infarto o altri malori N° 11 coronary or illness victim 11
· incidente automobilistico N° 1 car crash victim 1
· caduta N° 1 mortal fall from a rock 1
· omicidio volontario N° 1 murder 1
· un ferito contato fra i morti N° 1 (Cerveteri, 05 gennaio 2009) a wounded counted as dead 1
· un disperso per una notte considerato morto N° 1 (Pordenone, 01 ottobre 2009) a mdth (missing during the hunt) 1

The above lines are used in Italy to fight against hunting activities.

Excuse me, I hit the post now button too early.
The death toll of hunters in Italy alone this last 2009 season (in 55 hunting days distributed in 16 weeks) was 22, sadly always too much, but the accident toll on the road in 2009 year have been 5371 victims during the Saturday nights, when the people go to dance.

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Originally posted by Steve Malinverni:
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· un ferito contato fra i morti N° 1 (Cerveteri, 05 gennaio 2009) a wounded counted as dead 1

Bit of a bummer if its only a flesh wound.

quote:

· un disperso per una notte considerato morto N° 1 (Pordenone, 01 ottobre 2009) a mdth (missing during the hunt) 1

What the just lost someone? Was he beamed up by aliens or something?

You're right of course 22 or 38 in 55 days is way too high a mortality rate.

Oh those greeks, always trigger happy The death count in Italy is not bad in comparison to Cyprus (no offence Fallow Buck I'm not saying all Cypriots are bad)