Mildly Interesting

I am from a country in Europe where "hunters" are the slapstick version of rich, douchey deep state. Tons of politicians, religious figures, business people are hunting for hobby and I wouldn't bat an eye if they did it in compliance to law, common sense and rules of wildlife management. But they do not and are famous for:

• blatant poaching

• corrupting local forest management to allow for excessive shootings

• the corruption at one point has reached the country parliament and a country-wide green light was given to cull boars because several sick ones were found in one region.

• running events which have nothing to do with traditional hunting, nothing to do with wildlife management, but are instead shooting rows with random animals ran across a yard and being shot. Then their children (often as young as 7-8 yo) get to pose for instagram pics with fresh, bloody carcasses.

• shooting people (both themselves and innocent mushroom pickers) and then getting acquitted after saying "I thought that was a boar" (the phrase is a meme now, but it still works in courts from time to time)

• handling firearms in a way that would get any other person in jail (including neglecting psych checks, wrong storage, littering forests with lead ammo)