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Date Posted: Thursday, November 24, 05:45:24pm
Author: b
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serious deer hunter

borrowed this from my hubby's RR board...thought you all would get a kick out of it.

This from the Post Star, local Glens Falls paper.

Hunter refuses to get out of train's way

By DON LEHMAN

Updated: 11/22/2005 8:52:09 PM

KINGSBURY -- To some guys, deer hunting season means everything.

A Towpath Road man who was hunting shortly after 4 p.m. Monday was
arrested after he refused to get off train tracks for an oncoming
train because he was preparing to shoot a deer.

Rather than get out of the way, 68-year-old Terrence T. Bruno put
his hand up to halt the train as he lined up a shot at a whitetail
deer, police said.

Washington County Sheriff Roger Leclaire said the train was able to
apply its brakes and come to a stop before it could strike Bruno.
Bruno then stepped off the tracks, allowing the train to resume its
trip.

"You've got to be a pretty serious deer hunter to do something like
that," Leclaire said.

Bruno was charged with trespass by Canadian Pacific Railway Police,
said Supt. Joseph Bender of the railway police. He also was charged
by state Department of Environmental Conservation police with not
carrying a hunting license.

Bruno was arrested after a crew on a CP Railway work train reported
that a man was on the tracks with a rifle and he refused to move.
The train stopped after it passed him, and he remained on the tracks
as the railroad crew called police.

Work trains carry materials and equipment used by railroad repair
crew, and are smaller than freight or passenger trains, Bender said.
Had it been a freight or passenger train, it would not have been
able to stop in time and may have jumped the tracks and/or hit
Bruno, he said.

Bruno apparently owns property on one or both sides of the tracks
off Towpath Road in Smiths Basin, police said.

David Winchell, a spokesman for the DEC, said Bruno had apparently
been warned earlier in the day about hunting on CP Railway property.

Washington County sheriff's officers arrived to find Bruno on the
tracks and took him into custody nearby without incident, Leclaire
said.

It was unknown Tuesday whether he managed to shoot the deer he was
apparently targeting.

Bender said CP Railway has had problems with hunters using its local
tracks and the access roads adjacent to them.

"All hunters should realize this is off-limits," he said.

Bruno was released pending prosecution in Kingsbury Town Court on
the non-criminal charges of trespass and not carrying a hunting
license.

No one answered the door at Bruno's home Tuesday morning, and no
listed phone number could be found for him.

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