Seriously?

So I see the news tonight, and one of the top stories is about Trip Isenhour, the pro golfer on the Nationwide tour. He hit a hawk with a golf ball and killed it. Here is a link.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-golfer-birdkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns

From a few hundred feet away, he kills the bird. Problem is, the bird is a protected species and he was aiming at it for screwing up his game during a TV shoot of 'Shoot Like a Pro.' For starters, he is an idiot for doing this on camera. What in the hell did he think would happen if he actually hit it? He'd get a high five from the crew? Moron. But that is not the point of this post. The animal rights groups are freaking out and calling for him to be suspended, fined, imprisoned, tortured, etc, etc. My favorite piece of the story is this:

Jethro Senger, a sound engineer at the shoot, said hitting the bird was “basically like a joke to (Isenhour).”
“He just kept saying how he didn’t think he could have hit it, which I think is a stupid thing for a PGA Tour golfer to say,” Senger said. “He can put a ball in a hole from hundreds of yards away, and here he is hitting line drives at something that’s, I don’t know, a couple hundred feet away?”

Really? You think that just because he is a pro golfer that he can hit a freakin bird from a few hundred feet away? How many PGA Tour pros can put the ball in the hole from a few hundred feet away? There is a reason why pitch-ins from 120 out are on the SportsCenter top ten every time they happen.... because they rarely happen!!!! Senger needs to get a better view of reality, which is the odds were that this bird was safe and sound from getting hit. It was pure luck (actually bad luck) that it got drilled in the head.

Anyway, I just find it amusing. Don't get me wrong, I love animals. But is this really a big enough story to find its way to the front page of the national news? Find me something a little more relevant to our lives as Americans.