Falcon fetches teen age hunter $30,000

A Saudi teen ager made a fortune of nearly $30,000 in just a few hours after he chased and captured a rare falcon which he sold to a local businessman.

The 16-year-old boy was on a picnic in the wilderness in west Saudi Arabia when he spotted the bird and decided to catch it.

“He chased the falcon most of afternoon until he captured it…he then took it to a falcon bazaar and sold it to a local businessman for SR111,000 ($30,000),” Sabq Arabic language daily said on Saturday.

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