Everything was ready, the posts had been assigned. Instructions had been given but when the huntsman he went through the post office to check if everything was in order to begin with he noticed a short distance away that the cacciatore assigned to one of the farthest posts he was lying on the ground. It was dead.
There was nothing to do for 78-year-old AS, a long-retired former steelworker and well-known in hunting circles. Friends tried to help him, someone called 118 but when the doctor and volunteers arrived for the man there was nothing more to be done. Myocardial infarction: this was established by the doctor. A heart attack that electrocuted him instantly.
It happened around 9,30 in Populonia, in the Etruscan park. Here a joke of wild boar hunting; There were about 35 hunters and a provincial police team on the scene. The man, however, until last year was the huntsman of that team of beltlai, then for reasons of age he had left the job to a younger teammate. However, he remained the "La Spezia" of the team, that is, the one who was in charge of slaughtering the prey.
Yesterday was a beautiful December morning, the post offices had all been assigned and the pensioner was in one of the farthest ones. The foreman was scanning the hunting line and that's when he realized that something was wrong. In fact, the elderly hunter was lying on the ground, next to his rifle.
The foreman ran to see what had happened, he immediately realized that his friend was serious. He asked for help, he immediately stopped the joke and, as we said, an ambulance with the doctor also intervened on the spot. But now the old hunter was dead. At that point the Provincial Police entered the scene, for the reliefs and the formalities.
(December 16, 2015)
Source: IlTirreno - PiombinoElba