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Here Tripp, Tripp, Tripp..here boy...Has Tripp been a bad boy?  Yes he has....

Tripp Winfield...I mean Isenhour, has been charged with cruelty to animals after repeatedly driving balls at a Red Shouldered hawk and killing it while filming his television show, Shoot Like a Pro.

The 39-year-old golfer, became so incensed by the bird’s squawking at the Grand Cypress golf course near Orlando, Florida, that he reportedly declared: “I’ll get him now.”

The golfer, who was ranked No 152 on the PGA Tour last year, first attempted to take on the bird from a distance of 300 yards. He gave up after ten minutes, but when he attempted to resume filming the hawk took flight and alighted 75 yards away in the branches of a pine tree. Witness-es told investigators that the screeching, now louder, inspired Mr Isenhour to direct more drives at the bird.

His tenth attempt proved deadly, and the animal toppled from its perch 30ft to the ground. David Leadbetter, a noted golfing coach who did not witness the episode, told the Orlando Sentinel that the odds of hitting the bird were one in several thousand.

His sound engineer, Jethro Senger had become so racked with guilt – reports suggest that he had nightmares about dead animals – that he felt compelled to inform authorities about the incident.  Mr Senger said that he was shocked by the incident, which took place on December 12. “The bird was on his back, bleeding from his nostrils, his mouth was opening and closing slowly and it was looking up at me as people ran over,” he told wildlife officials. “I saw its eyes slowly close and I was pretty sure that the bird had died.”

His written apology, released by the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour, states that he is an animal lover. “As soon as this happened, I was mortified and extremely upset and continue to be upset,” he wrote. “I want to let everyone know there was neither any malice nor deliberate intent whatsoever to hit or harm the hawk. I was trying simply to scare it into flying away.”

Scare it into flying away...shake the tree asshole...not drive a 100MPH golf ball at its head.  You can shoot a ball into a cup from 200 yards away and you didn't think you could hit a bird the size of a football several hundred feet away?!  Bitch. 

According to reports, Dave Winfield has been in touch with Tipp asking to team up during this years celebrity golf tour.

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