That makes me fucking sick. Bald eagles feed in the half frozen river in my front yard all the time. Last weekend I had one perched in my tree literally 15 feet from my deck. Such beautiful, bad ass creatures. Why anyone would shoot them is beyond me....and especially just leaving them to waste.
And to Sander - I get the whole let's get drunk and shoot things. I've done it many times myself. However, any animals have always been varmint, so just leaving them is not an issue. I can't believe anyone would shoot game and just waste it. Doesn't make sense to me. (Not saying I don't believe it happens - just that I don't understand the line of thought.)