Hunters shoot, activists shout

AUBURN - With a Bible in his left hand, Bill Atkinson quoted scripture Sunday to explain why he thought it was wrong to participate in this past weekend's controversial crow hunt.

Wearing a black fedora and a long coat, Atkinson, 51, a member of the First Love Ministries in Auburn, said it doesn't take going any further than the Ten Commandments to show his disdain of the two-day event that downed 380 crows - "Thou shall not kill."

"It's incredibly shameful that they are killing these birds. It's got to come to an end," he said. "Personally, I'm glad the crows are here. So what, they mess on sidewalks."