Halfway down the Danube

Never, never forget!

You know, after doing some digging, I wonder if the Husting in Diana Shooting Club v. Husting wasn't Paul Oscar.

It's a weird but classically Wisconsin story. The current Horicon Marsh state and national wildlife areas used to be leased by two hunting clubs, the Diana Shooting Club and the Horicon Shooting Club. (The land leased by the Horicon Shooting Club eventually became part of the Federal wildlife refuge, while the land leased by the Diana Shooting Club became the state wildlife area.)

Now, Husting was a member of one of the two, but I haven't been able to find out which one. But if this Husting is the same Husting as in the court case, I'm guessing that he belonged to the Horicon Shooting Club.

Why is the aforementioned case important? Because it established the principle in Wisconsin state law that navigable waters are owned by the public, and thus hunting and fishing in those waters must follow the same statutes as hunting and fishing on public land, and not private land.

On the other hand, there are still Hustings who live in the area. So it might have been some ne'er-do-well (but NOT trespassing) relative.

Incidentally, while Husting was the first Wisconsin (and American) political figure to be killed while duck hunting, he was not the first one to be shot. Wisconsin Governor and popular humorist George Peck was a regular at Horicon Marsh, and as Robert Personius, manager and historian of the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, recounted it:

"The daughter of the club manager recalled an incident which illustrates Peck's ready wit. One day the girl and her sister were shooting at bottles thrown into the marsh in front of the club-house as the governor watched from the porch. A shot pellet bounced off a bottle and struck Peck on the cheek. He made light of it, however, and that day wrote in the club log book: 'Erna Kliefoth hit 3 bottles and one governor.'"

Ah, my people. The Kliefoths are still in Wisconsin too.

(Doug, Claudia, Wisconsin is calling you: 'Join us. Join us!' Can't you hear it calling? I can.)

Ah, hunting mishaps. How common is that ... Particular surname in Texas anyway? Cause if there's a relation between the two it would be pretty funny. He certainly hasn't written about it on his blog yet.

Patrick, I have the Maxim gun and he has not.

It's most common in Mississippi in the States, Brighton in the UK, and South Australia in the Not-Enough-Brown and Pleasant Land. There's a theme here.

Hm. I take it those places share some similar charactoristics?

BTW, that typo was on purpose.

Good spelling is a charectoristic of the radical left.

I'm sorry you had to politecise this conversation.

Ah, the memories.....

Bunny Suicide fanfic: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=99427643&size=m

Oh yea, I went there.