We all know that pigeon shooters are cowards. It's not just that they massacre birds for the sheer pleasure of destroying life, but that they hide what they do from the public, for fear that their vile actions would cause them much deserved public humiliation and shame.

A major aspect of SHARK's anti-pigeon shoot operation has been to publicly expose individual shooters (see our website Operation Bright Light).  Sometimes finding out the identities of shooters is easy, like Jack Godwin, who put his name on his jacket. For the most part, it's a time consuming process to track down individual shooters. While we may have pictures or other leads, without names it's a tough job.

That's why we are absolutely delighted to announce that, thanks to Joseph Solana, owner of the Wing Pointe canned hunting dump, and his Manager Cindy Neel, SHARK now has the names and email addresses of more than 270 pigeon shooters!  

Turns out that in a recent email, which was forwarded to SHARK, Ms. Neel put everyone on her list in the "To" section, meaning all 270 + names were visible to all.

Some of them we recognized, like Rich and Jean Pieros, who already have a page on Operation Bright Light. Ken Hassis is there as well, and he used his Miller Ford business email address. If you remember, we protested outside Miller Ford in Lumberton, NJ, because Ken would drive cars with dealer plates and wear his Miller Ford jacket to pigeon shoots. Guess he hasn't learned that associating his business with pigeon shooting is a bad idea. 

Thanks Joe! Without you, we may have never known the names of all those pigeon shooters!

Thankfully, Ken's not the only one who used their business email. There's more too; a Judge in California who used his official email address, two guys using their federal government email accounts and so much more.  

This truly is a gold mine of information and we can't thank Joe Solana enough for collecting it all in one place for us.

All that trust he built up with his clients, all that information, all those people who most likely had hoped that no one would ever know their name. And let's not forget all those animals they brutally slaughtered for fun.

It's time that everyone knew who these people are and the sick things they do to animals. That is exactly what SHARK is going to do.