Last night I was chatting in a Delphi chatroom, when I exited and saw an announcment for a Ted Nugent chat. What luck! ~ It was supposed to start within 5 minutes (9pm). Never to miss a chance to spread the word 'Hunting is wrong!', I went into the room. Previous to that I had no idea about it.. This was purely by luck. To confirm the announcement, I went to his website. Below is the screenshot, taken Sept. 7 '01. (Any dialogue concerning me and Ted has been highlighted).
This is where the chaos starts. Hunting fans congratulated Ted on his lifestlye and stroked his already over-filled ego. (Please understand that I have nothing against Ted as a musician - anyone who is able to get into the music biz and stick around for more than a few years has something special, I just have a problem with his lifestyle - specifically, his outright disrespect for anything living, human or non).
As you can see from the first chat screenshot below, I told my friend I'd get booted. This was a given because I wasn't there to tell Ted how much I liked him, or ask questions on how to kill an animal.. I was there to make a point. My private message to Ted is at the bottom of the screenshot. It says Hi there Ted ~ How can people look up to someone who defecates his pants to avoid being enlisted, yet goes out and readily kills the first animal thats moving. Is it because the animal can't fight back? ... Just a thought.
He responds with LSD again Ladyfk, meaning the drug LSD - In an attempt to brush my concerns off, he asked if I was using drugs. (You'll notice as this chat progresses, his remarks to me become jumbled as he hurries to write a reply).
The 3rd screenshot captures Ted replying to me again - this time with his usual saying: (he types in CAPS to emphasize) KILL IT & GRILL IT!!
Also highlighted is a private message to my friend, and a response to Glock221 who told Ted we have NRA members here to. (NRA is the National Rifle Association). In response to make myself known to the general chatroom, I wrote we also have ARA's here, glock. (ARA means Animal Rights Activist).
Larry4279 picks up on my comment and replies ALF is here? to which I respond ALF isn't the only organization..... One thing thats common among hunters is that they readily bash ARAs, but don't educate themselves on it - The ALF (Animal Liberation Front) is just 1 of thousands of A.R. organizations worldwide. Another common assumption is that every A.R.A. belongs to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) - again, untrue. Many people (myself included) don't belong to one particular organization.. we just support animal rights in general, and help out where needed.
At this point, I was still saving screenshots, but accidently over-wrote approx. 3 of them. What you missed was a comment by Ted, saying something like vegetarians will die because we'll eventually run out of vegetables. How lame... I wrote back with And people for hunting will die a slow death - at least, until the heart attacks and high cholesterol get them. This statement is true - if you refer to my 'Vegetarian vs. Meat-Eaters' page, you'll see the facts. The risk of heart attacks & high cholesterol greatly increase according to your meat consumption. Ted is getting flustered by now and types out eat mer which is supposed to mean eat me. (He corrects this soon after).
Chris25870 adds his 2 cents people who are against hunting have forgotten their heritage and how the settlers survived in this great country of ours. I let this comment go since I was concentrating on Ted. My answer now is 'Things have changed and people have evolved. We no longer need to live in caves, invent wheels, or hunt animals to live. It's a very primative way of thinking. We now use computers to communicate, pay bills online, drive in cars and live in buildings... we should all also adopt a vegetarian (or vegan) lifestyle. If not for the animals, than for our health. Remembering our heritage is what museums are for'.
My answer to Teds eat me statement is sorry Ted - I only eat plants. Again, true!
Shadowcop (who eventually banned me from the chat when Ted wanted to ignore my valid complaints) jumps in There's a FOOD CHAIN... we're at the TOP... DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!. Again another message to my friend follows, as I explain why Ted is getting touchy (remember, the messages I sent him were private so the chatters could only see his response). Ted comes out with whack em & stak em for sure and than Im killin 10 xtra deer this week just for ladggutter to which my response is Name-calling, huh? wow ~ Thats mature. What else could I say to someone who avoids my questions and gets sarcastic instead?!
By this point the chatters had had enough of me and my differing views on life and death. Ted complained to the moderator because he couldn't handle my honest questions and I got booted. In about a minute, I returned under another alias Tigereye1 (from my old Delphi account). Steamdiva catches onto my ploy Tigereye is Ladyglitter. Sensing that I didn't have much more time until I got kicked out, I fired off another message to Ted for_the_animals@hotmail.com - take it up with me there. No response from him.
Steamdiva writes again Tigereye... play nice or GO EAT A SALAD. How cute. Chris25870 reappears with salads go good with a nice venison roast and I get one final sentence in (whats wrong, Steam? Can't take both sides of the story?) before I get kicked out again and banned.
That's it. Even though I was thrown out pretty fast, at least I got the word out that Hunting is wrong. It's not everyday you get the chance to speak with Ted Nugent and I think I made the best of it on such short notice!
