Dan Duncan, Houston’s richest man, has laid claim to a new, more auspicious title: Houston’s richest poacher.
According to today’s Chron, the 74-year-old oil tycoon whose name appears in record books for hundreds of big-game kills, gunned down a moose and a sheep from a helicopter in Russia – and now could face criminal charges in America.
Dedicated hunters generally hate poachers since picking off a deer from a pickup truck can hardly be considered sport.
Duncan shot a freaking sheep from a freaking helicopter!
We can only imagine how he bagged all those lions. – Todd Spivak
This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2007.
