Mad Trapper not a Canuck

[Canuck_Buck]

The infamous Mad Trapper was, among other things, an American or Scandinavian who was in his 30s when police shot him dead nearly 80 years ago, according to scientific analysis of the Arctic outlaw's remains.

DNA analysis has shed new light on the identity of the Mad Trapper, also known as Albert Johnson, who rose to infamy in the early 1930s for killing an RCMP officer, sparking a five-week manhunt through the northern wilderness before he was shot dead.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2009...3207:b22163898

"Albert Johnson grew up in the northern United States or northern Scandinavia," producer Carrie Gour told CBC News, adding that scientists found this out by analyzing isotopes in Johnson's teeth.

....any relatives down there?[8D]

[bawanajim]

The story is just another example of a government employee with an ego bigger than his brain.

[Lanse couche couche]

Wow, they have really refined DNA testing if they can prove that someone lived above or below a particular border.

Did they make a movie based on this guy years back. It had Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin and had a bunch of Canadian lawmen and bounty hunters chasing an outlaw trapper thru the snow.

[Canuck_Buck]

I think I saw that movie, but the ending was such that they let him go.

This method of DNA testing they are creating the documentary about is the real reason for the show right?

[boysda]

ORIGINAL: Canuck_Buck

I think I saw that movie, but the ending was such that they let him go.

This method of DNA testing they are creating the documentary about is the real reason for the show right?

it's a crime to shoot canadians?


was he over his bag-limit?

[Canuck_Buck]

ORIGINAL: boysda

it's a crime to shoot canadians?


was he over his bag-limit?

ROFLMAO...

I think in most WMU's ( WildLife Management Units ) it is against regulations to shoot a wild canadian however I believe it is open season all year round in Quebec...[8D]

[boysda]

ORIGINAL: Canuck_Buck

ROFLMAO...

I think in most WMU's ( WildLife Management Units ) it is against regulations to shoot a wild canadian however I believe it is open season all year round in Quebec...[8D]

the way the Habs crashed and burned this year, it would be a mercy killing

[Canuck_Buck]

indeed they had CWHD....Cronic Wasting Hockey Disease

[salukipv1]

Mad Trapper Albert Johnson? Isn't that a movie starring Charles Bronson?

[ipscshooter]

Yep. Death Hunt (1981)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082247/