ANIMAL WELFARE: YouTube video shows men illegally shooting ducks out of season

Update 8 August 2009: Three Saskatchewan men arrested in connection with YouTube duck shooting video

What’s wrong with people?

Someone posted a video showing poachers callously shooting ducks out of season. Some of the shooting even takes place from a car window. Apparently, one of the poachers originally posted the video on YouTube. However, the original account has been closed, but the video has been preserved here. You can watch the video below, but it’s very graphic and disturbing.

There’s a Facebook group aimed at finding these poachers, and the group has contact information to report these guys. From The Gazette:

Wildlife officers and hunters are beating the bushes for three unidentified young men seen on a YouTube video, giggling while gunning down ducklings from a parked car.

The four-minute video, which boasts more than 20,000 viewings in four days, shows the trio committing a number of crimes as they blast away at ducklings and other protected waterfowl in a pond — believed to be somewhere in rural Alberta or Saskatchewan — while cracking jokes.

“I was disgusted,” said Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation executive director Darrell Crabbe. “It doesn’t look like they have been out of the evolutionary tree very long. These yahoos didn’t show any ethics at any level.”

Warning: “Video contains profanity and possible graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised“