> I received this info from my brother... It's worth reading....Many of us have had bad experiences on PGL.. I have but that's another story....
> Subject: Also from Oct. 7 Allentown Morning Call
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> 'I just wanted to live': Tamaqua bow hunter recalls Game Lands attack by 2 gunmen
> Masked men beat William Hankey Jr. and threatened him with assault weapons on Schuylkill County mountain, then took his pickup truck to Missouri, police say
> Vehicles <http://www.mcall.com/classified/automotive>
> Firearms <http://www.mcall.com/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/defense/firearms/11001006.topic>
> Missouri <http://www.mcall.com/topic/us/missouri-PLGEO100103100000000.topic>
> Trials <http://www.mcall.com/topic/crime-law-justice/trials/02008000.topic>
> Prosecution <http://www.mcall.com/topic/crime-law-justice/prosecution/02009000.topic>
> Watertown <http://www.mcall.com/topic/us/connecticut/litchfield-county/watertown-PLGEO100100203260000.topic>
> Assault <http://www.mcall.com/topic/crime-law-justice/crimes/assault/02001006.topic>
> Schuylkill County <http://www.mcall.com/topic/us/pennsylvania/schuylkill-county-PLGEO100101024000000.topic>
> By Frank Warner, Allentown Morning Call – Oct. 7, 2010
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> William J. Hankey Jr. had just finished a day of deer hunting in state game lands in Schuylkill County on Saturday evening when two masked men with rifles ran up behind him.
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> "They yelled, 'Get your . . . hands up!'" Hankey remembered Thursday. "No sooner had I turned around, one of them swung an assault rifle into my head like a baseball bat."
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> Hankey, 32, of Tamaqua, fell to the ground next to his pickup truck and the gunmen continued to beat him, hitting him with their rifle butts and kicking him, he said. Then they poked him with the rifle barrels and demanded his wallet and keys.
> "I thought they were going to shoot me," he said.
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> They drove off in his pickup, Hankey said, and he staggered into the woods, where he hid until 5 a.m.
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> "I wasn't sure if they were still there, if they were still on the mountain," he said. "There were a thousand things going through my head. I tried to play it safe. I just wanted to live."
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> Hankey had no idea his two attackers were in the middle of what police say was a cross-country crime spree that started Friday with the theft of rifles in New York and ended Tuesday with their arrest in Missouri.
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> Philip E. Hemminger, 18, and Andrew M. O'Connor, 19, both of New York state, were arrested in Rolla City, Mo., and charged with the burglary of a sporting goods store in Watertown, N.Y.; the assault and robbery of Hankey; and unspecified offenses in Missouri.
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> Hankey said he is happy the two suspects have been caught, "relieved that they wouldn't do this to someone else."
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> An avid bow hunter, Hankey said he still doesn't know how his attackers happened on him at 7:10 p.m. Saturday at State Game Lands 222, between Tamaqua and Pottsville.
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> "I guess I was just a crime of opportunity," he said. "I was the lucky one."
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> State police at Frackville said the robbers' pickup truck, owned by Hemminger, broke down in the area as they traveled through Pennsylvania, and they jumped Hankey primarily because they needed a vehicle.
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> The two men burned their disabled pickup, which officers found eight hours before Hankey came out of the woods. Police said their first break in the case was in tracing the burned vehicle to Hemminger.
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> When Hemminger and O'Connor were found in Missouri, they were in Hankey's pickup truck with Hemminger's license plates, police said.
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> Hankey said he might forgo hunting the rest of the year.
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> "I'm always hunting, since I was a little kid," he said. "I love the outdoors. For now, I'm just too mentally drained. I'm not sure if I'm going to do any more hunting this year.
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> "Eventually I'll start hunting and fishing again. I'm not going to let these two thugs ruin what I love doing."
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> Hankey was treated at Coaldale Hospital. He said he is recovering from his injuries, which include a gash down the middle of his forehead, other cuts to his head and legs, and deep bruises to several muscles and bones.
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> He said the ordeal has not cost him his sense of humor, and he looks for the upside of surviving the crime.
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> "The one thing that I get out of this: I'll never have to serve jury duty," he said. "They'll never want me."
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