As if he hasn’t had enough exposure, PT2
by James on Dec.07, 2008, under Laptop Theft
GUILTY PLEA: Hastings man Dawson Bliss, who poached a stag then filmed himself and two companions carrying it, has been ordered to pay reparation.
Turns out he was true to his word for once:
Video stag-hunter fined for poaching
A filmmaker who poached a stag then filmed himself and two companions carrying it has been ordered to pay reparation.
Dawson Bliss, 52, of Hastings, appeared in Hastings District Court yesterday to plead guilty to charges of hunting on private land without the owner’s authority and of filming on conservation land without a concession.
The charges relate to a clip in The Trophy Hunters video, featuring Bliss’s son Beaudene, 27, and Cameron Young, 28, shooting a 12-pointer stag on Teme Station in the Waihopai Valley, near Blenheim, on April 1 last year.
They took turns filming each other carrying the head back into department land. Daniel Le Brun, of Teme Station, said the stag was bred to release into a fenced safari park on the property so hunting customers could easily take home trophy heads. He believed it was worth $8000.
Bliss, who disputed the figure, returned the head to police for valuation.
Judge Geoff Rea fined Bliss $500 and ordered he pay court costs of $130. He also ordered reparation to Mr Le Brun of $1875 – one third of the animal’s estimated value.
Beaudene Bliss was convicted last week and ordered to pay his share of reparation. An arrest warrant has been issued for Young.
Taken from the Dominion Post.
December 17th, 2008 on 11:32 pm
Dawson sucks
April 6th, 2009 on 8:38 pm
This Bliss guy is a shocking poacher and con artist, he makes himself out to be a big time hunter and tells people how to hunt, when all he does is poach game parks, films himself and his foolish mates shooting a ” Trohpy deer” and saying how hard it was to get, which from what I have been told was just a little walk down a hill for him.
He’s a fraud and a disgrace to New Zealand hunting fraternity
April 6th, 2009 on 10:39 pm
Ain’t that the truth. I’ve found many a “bitching” about him on NZ Based hunting forums, but they all misteriously seem to disappear in due time…
Wouldn’t surprise me if Dawson and his hench men are sending the same bullshit threatening letters/emails to them that they have been to me.