One of the features to be shown during this year's Tribeca Film Festival is First Winter, which is also known as the fest's "hipster apocalypse movie" because it features Brooklyn hipsters stranded in a remote country farmhouse. Now, as the festival draws near, it turns out that the film crew didn't have a license to shoot and kill two deer! And the hipster film crew killed the deer outside of deer hunting season! more ›

Forget giant rats or pizza-loving, petting zoo poseurs: feral boars are just (300) miles away in sleepy Peru, New York, feasting on apples and other crops and copulating like, well, pigs that start having sex at the age of six months. “There’s a real sense of urgency,” Ed Reed, a biologist at the DEC tells the Times. “Once the pigs get established, they are very difficult to eradicate completely.” When will Governor Cuomo follow Texas' lead and allow us to kill them with automatic weapons from helicopters? more ›

Environmental groups have sued to stop New Jersey's six-day black bear hunt after 589 of the animals were killed last year. An appeals court is scheduled to hand down a ruling tomorrow, as the season begins on Monday. "The back bear policy is full of scientific flaws, self-contradictions and outright fabrications," Doris Lin, director of legal services for New Jersey's Bear Education and Resource Group tells CBS. The bears should probably pay whoever is lobbying for the coyotes in Trenton to reduce their sentence to sprinklers. more ›

Knowing that your food came at the expense of another animal's life is the eternal plight of the omnivore. And though it's impractical to hunt for your own meals in the city, New Yorkers must come to terms with the deed often done for them like anyone else. But given the option, could you kill your own meal? Some New York Yelpers have and lived to tell the tale. more ›

CIA Director Leon Panetta gave a sobering interview with ABC's "This Week" yesterday, in which he said the US has had no solid intelligence on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts for years. While being interviewed on the program, Panetta summarized the difficulties with the war in Afghanistan, and with the hunt for bin Laden, saying that the last "precise information" US officials had on the terrorist leader was in "the early 2000s": "Since then, it's been very difficult to get any intelligence on his exact location. He is, as is obvious, in very deep hiding ... He's in an area of the tribal areas of Pakistan." But in that case, maybe the CIA should be outsourcing their intelligence to the Osama Hunter. more ›

Guess what: Pakistani authorities have conducted psychological tests on the American man apparently on the trail of Osama bin Laden who was arrested near the Afghanistan border. Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 50-year-old Colorado resident, was found armed and a source told the AFP, "They are asking him a lot of things, especially about the sword and dagger that look like ceremonial weapons. He said he wanted to kill Usama but killing Usama with a sword and dagger is not child's play. Carrying a pistol and such a long sword is definitely a crime but we need a lot more clarifications." more ›

Cops have arrested a plumber and his wife, as well as their unemployed son and his roommate, after finding an impressive weapons arsenal in their Sheepshead Bay home. Confiscated from the apartment—located opposite an elementary school—were 10 handguns, two assault rifles, nine shotguns and nine rifles as well as a two airguns, a machete, three daggers, a hunting knife and an umbrella with a blade in its handle. According to NY1, they were known for being “gun enthusiasts.” more ›

Senator Chuck Schumer may feel more at home riding his bike around Prospect Park and chilling with Jay-Z at the Pool Parties, but when it comes to the people's business, he's ready to grab a gun and kill some pheasants. This photo was taken during a recent hunting trip with Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who ended up as the Senate's last holdout on the health care bill. Of course, both men swear they didn't talk business during their male bonding weekend, but that's exactly what Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia claimed about their little hunting trip in 2004, weeks after the Supreme Court decided to hear the Sierra Club's lawsuit against Cheney. more ›

The second day of hunting season claimed one more life than anyone would have hoped for when a toddler was accidentally shot and killed inside her grandmother's trailer in Swan Lake. Edward Taibi of Howard Beach was arrested on charges of second-degree manslaughter after a stray bullet from his .300 Magnum rifle went through the trailer and struck sixteen-month-old Charly Skala in the chest. more ›