“I ain’t trading in my family’s safety just to save on a little gas / And I’ll pray to God any place, anytime / And you know I’ll pick up the phone if Uncle Sam calls me up / You do your thing; I’ll do mine.”
Ain’t nothing like patriotism and god to keep your career in gear if you’re a country singer. And macho stuff like hunting down a bear with a bow-and-arrow helps, too. Unless someone discovers you killed the bear — in a cage. Oh, and it was a tame bear named “Cubby.”
Troy Lee Gentry, half of the country music duo Montgomery Gentry, has been charged with killing a tame bear and then making it look as if it was a hunting trophy, authorities said on Wednesday.
According to an indictment unsealed this week, in October 2004 Gentry paid $4,650 to shoot the “trophy-caliber” bear named “Cubby” at the Minnesota Wildlife Connection in northern Minnesota, which advertises itself as a place where animals can be photographed in the wild.
After using a bow and arrow to kill the animal inside its pen, Gentry and the owner of the preserve tagged the bear and registered it with the state as if it had been killed in the wild. A videotape was edited to make it appear that Gentry had hunted down the bear.
Country music is a bit like Nascar; it’s been polluted by the big money. I’ve felt for years that the simple minded, good old rough and tumble good hearted goofball image was a bit contrived.
It’s kind of like rap; dumbed down so the simple minds can dig it.
But classic rock still kicks ass.
What is he going to do next? Run for federal office?
Very funny. I remember a Far Side cartoon to this effect…
at least he could have done it with his, um, bare hands.
He should run for office because he’d probably win with the “joke” vote…just like the current governor of California.
People voted for him because they were like “lol, wouldn’t be funny if he were governor and we could call him The Governator” or something”. So people voted for him just as a joke and before they knew it, he was the actual governor!
Yeah, right next to Dick Cheney.
“I ain’t gonna spare the rod / Cuz that ain’t what my daddy did / And I sure know the difference between wrong and right / You know, to me it’s all just common sense / A broken rule, a consequence / You do your thing, I’ll do mine”
I bet he feels like a real man now.
Wonder if C&W radio will give him the same treatment they gave The Dixie Chicks? Or will being a sadistic, juvenile a-hole will just pass for “gittin a little crazy after knock’in back a couple”? This guy should be dipped in honey and dropped off at Grizzlyland.
I’m puzzled by what the “SPORT” is in killing any animal like a bear… unless you do it bare handed in a loin cloth… well maybe that’s going a little too far… but really – c’mon!
I just don’t get “hunting” lions, and tigers… and bears… OH MY!
Whats wrong with people wanting to kill a beast with a weapon… for sport.
It’s not like they were going to haul the bear back to camp and cook it and eat it… if they did… maybe i could respect that…
I’m just confused by this bizzare behavior… and I’m a red blooded Southerner.
If this is true I would have one thing to say… SHAME!
I grew up in rural Kansas and I still think that hunting for trophies is sick. If you kill it eat it that was our motto.
If people had to eat what they killed…there’d be a lot fewer wars.
Typical redneck.
Guess he got tired of tipping cows.
Hey I have new lyrics for his little Macho neocon song!
I vote for George W Bush, ‘cause that wot my Daddy done./And I’ll never forget what he told me after molesting my sister some./He said “Son don’t let them commie fagot liberals go take away our rights.”/”To watch NASCAR, kill a captive ‘bar and slap yo moma ’round right!”
Think he’ll like it?
In the words of Bevis and ButtHead.
What a butt munch.
If convicted, will he lose his “Good ole boy” status?
He needs to go to jail so he can write prison songs.
These singers and others like him — Toby Keith for example are nothing more than inbred hilljacks who cater to the same.
Let the courts give him a second chance, put him in a cage with a “real” bear and that bow and arrow. Bow hunters only wound their prey, then follow the blood trail till they find the dead beast. Try that inside a cage and see which beast dies, this guy is an embarrassment to country music.
What a piece of shat. He should be put in a cage and shot. Pussy.
What a useless piece of cowardly crap. Hope he gets jail time.
RIP Cubby.
By reading that article I just realised two things:
1.- I have found a new found respect for Ted Nugent.
2.- Young adult, middle class, suburban Italian Americans who wear Sean Combs/JayZ clothing and talk like 50cent from New York just became more credible…
i’m to pissed off to comment.
Heh heh. What a pussy.
But hey, he’s one of the few CW guys who doesn’t wear a leather cowboy hat 24/7 so folks “won’t know” about their cue-ball-shiny pates, so I guess he must be a Real Man.
This reminds me of the Carl Hiaasen novel, “Sick Puppy”. Rich guys get to shoot “wild animals” as trophies, but because they are lousy shots and have paid, they get to take potshots at lame, ex-circus animals tethered in a field. If only this idiot ended up like the people in the book!
Country music is for people who hate music.
All this quoting from Montgomery Gentry’s song “You Do Your Thing” but no one picked up on the last verse:
“You ain’t gonna be my judge
‘Cuz my Judge will judge us all one day…
You do your thing, I’ll do mine”
Who cares if he killed a bear in a cage? People to things much more inhumane than this but no one makes a fuss about that stuff. Is Mr.Gentry your idol? Why do you people obsess about him; just because he makes more money than you, he’s famous and you just go to your 9-5 job? Why dont you all go worry about things that actually matter?