Dear Friends,  

We are writing this from the woods behind the Wing Pointe canned hunting resort in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

Today was the first day of our live streaming of a pigeon shoot, and it worked better than we had hoped. While originally scheduling two hours, we went twice as long. Not only were we able to broadcast the horrors of pigeon shooting, we were also able to live stream an incident when slobfather Joseph Solana, owner of Wing Pointe, had a Pennsylvania State Police Officer hand deliver a letter to us that said Wing Pointe had a helipad. I guess that's Solana's way of telling us he doesn't want our oktocopters documenting his live pigeon shoots. It was a joke as we know the FAA law, and it's on our side, but it was shocking to see a Pennslvania State Police Officer act as a private messenger for Solana at taxpayers' expense.  Rest assured we flew our copter soon after to show our resolve. All of this was live streamed - something that's never happened before.

After that in another act of desperation, somebody at Wing Pointe shot our Oktocopter.  Unlike the first oktocopter which they shot down and to our knowledge is still in a tree at Wing Pointe, this one was able to make it back to us. We called the Pennsylvania State Police to returned to Wing Pointe so we could file a report.   

Fox 29 was here with us filming the shoot, our live stream and our aircraft as it was shot by someone at Wing Pointe. This will make for a great story and it should run today at 5 pm.  Check it out. And please check-out the live stream 

live stream - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pigeon-shoot

and share it with everyone as you never know what will happen!

We will be here today until the end of the pigeon shoot documenting the cruelty.  We will be back all day tomorrow and Sunday.  The live streaming will be starting at 9:00 am EDT until 11:00 am EDT or until our battery power runs out both days.

Check our Facebook page for updates.

What You Can Do

If you want to help us this weekend fight this shoot, please email media@sharkonline.org.

Don't forget to contact D.A. John Adams and politely ask him to do the job he was elected to do and take action against this cruelty!

 DA John Adams

Phone: 610 478 6000

da@countyofberks.com

As we mentioned earlier this week, Matie Kropp wrote a great article in The Reporter on the CFD rodeo and the animals they injured and killed.  CFD General Chairman submitted a garage piece attempting to refute the cruelty of the rodeo.  

Please go to these two articles and post your comments.