Internet hunt

English Noun The practice of hunting animals by controlling a firearm over the Internet. en March 3, 2005 The Economist Virtual adrenalin https://www.economist.com/united-states/2005/03/03/virtual-adrenalin Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the first internet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job. https://web.archive.org/web/20230727001024/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2005/03/03/virtual-adrenalin 27 July 2023 en March 20, 2005 The Telegraph Toby Harnden Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1486050/Hunters-queue-up-to-shoot-live-animals-over-the-internet.html The next internet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope. https://web.archive.org/web/20241204215926/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1486050/Hunters-queue-up-to-shoot-live-animals-over-the-internet.html 4 December 2024 en January 30, 2009 https://www.laramieboomerang.com/news/virtual-hunting-shot-down/article_40e2d885-b86a-5317-b276-9f9b8285f017.html Laramie Boomerang Virtual hunting shot down Carrie Haderlie During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow. https://web.archive.org/web/20200620204723/https://www.laramieboomerang.com/news/virtual-hunting-shot-down/article_40e2d885-b86a-5317-b276-9f9b8285f017.html 20 June 2020 en February 4, 2011 Park Rapids Enterprise https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/sports/495085-north-dakota-bill-aims-prohibit-hunting-internet North Dakota bill aims to prohibit hunting via Internet The bill also bans hosting an Internet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by an Internet hunt. 19 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200621234404/https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/sports/495085-north-dakota-bill-aims-prohibit-hunting-internet 21 June 2020 An Internet-based scavenger hunt. A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempted doxxing. en June 4, 2006 CNN From flash mob to lynch mob https://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/06/04/flashmob.lynchmob/ One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!" 19 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200621090326/https://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/06/04/flashmob.lynchmob/ 21 June 2020 en May 12, 2017 Daily Mercury https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/naked-shark-straddler-sparks-internet-hunt/3176969/ Naked shark straddler sparks internet hunt 19 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200622044224/https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/naked-shark-straddler-sparks-internet-hunt/3176969/ 22 June 2020 en Internet