04.21.12
Tough week for Ted
Fined $10,000 and 2 years probation for illegally bagging a black bear in Alaska. That makes two convictions in two years, making someone who constantly brags about being a great hunter, a hunting scofflaw in practice.
Rocker and wildlife hunter Ted Nugent has agreed to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in southeast Alaska.
Nugent made the admission in signing a plea agreement with federal prosecutors that was filed Friday in U.S. District Court.
The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island days after wounding a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear.
According to the agreement, first reported by the Anchorage Daily News, the six-day hunt was filmed for his Outdoor Channel television show, “Spirit of the Wild.” In the hunt, Nugent used a number of bear-baiting sites on U.S. Forest Service property, according to the agreement.
The document says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the federal Lacey Act.
Nugent, identified in the agreement as Theodore A. Nugent, agreed to pay a $10,000 fine, according to the agreement, which says he also agreed with a two-year probation, including a special condition that he not hunt or fish in Alaska or Forest Service properties for one year. He also agreed to create a public service announcement that would be broadcast on his show every second week for one year, the document states.
“This PSA will discuss the importance of a hunter’s responsibility in knowing the rules and regulations …”
Ted went spastic the last time he was convicted, in California for illegal baiting.
In about a month he’ll be on some obscure good ol’ boy hunting show raving about the tyrannical government and how he was framed.
From the archives — Scofflaw Ted’s previous hunting conviction.
This one will be tough to blame on the enemy within, commies, Mao ZeDongs and Saul Alinsky’s, though. But there’s always PETA.
Ted often brags about playing for the US armed forces. In the last five years, part of his shtick has been portraying it as part of a noble obligation to support our warriors.
Just in the news, he’s been booted off an Army gig:
Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army post’s Facebook page.
“After learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation,” it’s Facebook posting says.
Paranoid Ted promptly blamed the President. It’s never Ted’s fault:
Nugent, whose performance at Fort Knox has been canceled, blamed Obama. “I really believe that it was the President. I believe that the President said that when he went to the Memorial for these heroes, that Ted Nugent wouldn’t be allowed in the same area.”
This blog predicted the NRA rant would hurt Ted — business-wise — if it made big enough news. And it did. Try as he might, Ted just can’t call a visit from the US Secret Service a barbecue social.
Piling on, since there’s not a guy who deserves it more, here’s an old joke tune on Ted — “Chainsaw Rally” — a satire on “Cat Scratch Fever,” referring to an old accident he once had on reality tv.
