a search of his farm on the outskirts of the village of Grosspriel turned up hundreds of deer antlers and other game trophies — and about 100 guns Archives

By GEORGE JAHN This picture provided by the police department of the Lower Austria province shows weapons they found in the farm house of gunman Alois Huber in Grosspriel, Austria,…

Tagged: a search of his farm on the outskirts of the village of Grosspriel turned up hundreds of deer antlers and other game trophies — and about 100 guns, a welcome guest at birthday parties who gladly helped out when asked for a favor. "He was a quiet, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Vienna. Additionally, Alois Huber was a brazen outlaw even before he went on a murderous rampage that left four people dead. Not only did he poach game illegally in the middle of the night, analyzing Huber's motives without knowing him is difficult. Speculation runs freely. But psychiatrist Reinhard Haller says his rampage could have been linked in part to a romantic view of himself as a, and killed himself with a gunshot to the head. It was one of the worst multiple slayings in Austria's postwar history. Villagers are baffled by the shocking violence — and say Huber led a double life., Austria (AP) — In Austria, ballistics, blind the game so that it stands still and then shoot. That is pathetic." No one in Grosspriel or the cluster of surrounding hamlets about 70 kilometers (40 miles) west of Vienna suggests that Huber u, by cellphone, Carlos Nelson, Cascade Media Group, CMG, describing Huber's suicide as "an expression of his determination not to accept defeat." Some of Huber's last words as police closed in support that image of a defiant outlaw proud of his illegal shoo, different kinds of game and their diseases — and a host of other disciplines. Police followed up on more than 300 reported hunting violations last year. Among licensed hunters, Exclusive, GROSSPRIEL, he violated one of hunting's most sacred rules: Kill for meat, Herbert Huthansl, Huber's illegal hunting turned to murder: He embarked on a shooting rampage that left three officers and a paramedic dead. Then he set his farmhouse bunker full of trophies on fire, hunting deer and wild boar is a hallowed way of life, hunting traditions, in comments cited by the daily Kronen Zeitung. "They're not going to get me.", in what investigators now consider attempted murder. In past centuries, Instagram@ cascademediagroup, it was a "struggle to see who is better, just hours after Huber's charred body was found. "Nobody imagined that he could be so without scruples and so aggressive." But Huber had good reason to keep his passion a secret: Poaching is severely , Kansas City, latest news, leaving the childless widower with no close family. Those willing to talk about him after the trauma left by his rampage still don't believe that he was the man leaving the headless carcasses of deer , news, not just the trophy of the wild animal's head. Huber shot countless deer in the forests outside Vienna, one that follows age-old codes of honor and requires a license bestowed only after passing rigorous exams. In that exalted world, pleasant person who never did anyone any harm, poachers in Austria were often seen as cunning Robin Hood-like figures outwitting the noble owners of lands that they illegally hunted on for food. Now, rogues are held in the highest contempt. Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck says that police moved in on Huber after monitoring phone calls in which he acknowledged being the illegal tr, said Grundboeck, sawed off their antlered heads to mount at home — and left their decapitated bodies to rot in the underbrush. Until this week. Police had gotten wind of Huber's nocturnal poaching and went to confront, says expert Roland Girtler, some "drive in the night with SUVs in the forest, The Game Changer, The Wave of the future, twitter @whatsupkansascity, Whats up Kansas City, www.61a.162.myftpupload.com

a search of his farm on the outskirts of the village of Grosspriel turned up hundreds of deer antlers and other game trophies — and about 100 guns

AUSTRIAN HUNTER’S OBSESSION TURNS TO MURDER