This is hard to believe, but soon there will be a Web site where you can shoot animals from the comfort of your home. The gun is computer-controlled!
More after the jump.
Here's how Lance Ulanoff describes it in his
PC Magazine column:
For all that's good online, and there's a lot of it--blogs, IM, Internet mail, commerce, community--there's also a wealth of very bad ideas. The latest one is a mindblower. People are actually preparing to use the Internet to hunt live game. No, you did not misread that last sentence. Lazy-assed hunters (those so fat that they can't get their beer bellies out from behind their computer keyboards) could eventually be able to see live animals on their display screen and then shoot a remote rifle to blow them away.
The actual site,
Live-Shot.com, comfortingly describes this service as something to help people with disabilities:
We are currently working on a very comfortable, ADA compliant blind which will house the LIVE-SHOT shooting system. Once this and the perimeter fencing are completed, we will be able to offer a unique computer assisted hunting opportunity. Disabled and handicapped hunters, as well as others who would like to try this type of hunting, will be able to use our system.
Everybody in the computer industry is trying to come up with the next "killer app," but this takes that term a little too literally for my taste.