Strontium Dog wrote:...The hunter who shot this lion no more needs a photograph of himself with the corpse than you need to eat a cheeseburger for lunch.

Yes, cheese is a disgusting product of animal suffering.

(And now the body count is two. When will this pointless slaughter end?)

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:Yep, while most are Americans, some are European. As the article says, "Spain has a long history of importing lion heads as trophies from Africa".

What can you expect when you've got this cunt as a head of state?



Incidentally, Louis Theroux did a great documentary about this a while ago.



The sad thing was that it seemed that in this case, it was the only way they could think of to avoid the land being turned over to farmland and losing the habitats of the actual wild animals that shared the reserve.

Short clip from above:

Not only SA. How about neighbour Zimbabwe:

Dentist who illegally killed Cecil the lion blames local guides for the scandal

A Minnesota man has been accused of illegally killing a famed lion in Zimbabwe.

Walter James Palmer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota has been named by Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force as the shooter of Cecil, a 13-year-old prized lion. He is now wanted by Zimbabwe officials on poaching charges.

The lion was protected and the subject of a decade long study by the Wildlife Unit of Oxford University in the UK. He was outfitted with a GPS collar and was killed in Hwange National Park. The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority and the Safari Operators Association said that two men were charged with poaching in connection to Mr Palmer.

He will no doubt claim ignorance and blame the guides, but that's about as valid as a sex tourist blaming a cambodian pimp when he is caught with a child.

The dentist is pretty much ruined - seems he had a rap for sexual harassment as well - and illegal hunting. I'd love an hour with him in a locked room and a pair of pliers for some 'dental' work on his teeth.

Douchebag already plead guilty, did a year's probation and paid a (measly) fine for illegally shooting a black bear in the States and lying about it to US Fish and Wildlife Services. I struggle to believe he had no idea the lion hunt was an illegal one too considering the concerted effort to destroy the collar. When you spend $55,000 on a lion hunt it's to kill a special lion, usually black maned. Otherwise you just spend $20,000 (or $10,000 on a female.) The hunters lured Cecil, the black maned lion, not Jericho, the other mature lion in the area, who had less of a mane and was blonder. Cecil was absolutely their target.

Anyways, here he is (with Jericho in behind, actually) in his last photo, taken about a month ago:



And from now on he'll be on someone's wall.

CarlPierce wrote:The dentist is pretty much ruined - seems he had a rap for sexual harassment as well - and illegal hunting. I'd love an hour with him in a locked room and a pair of pliers for some 'dental' work on his teeth.

Killing an animal that has a name is beyond the pale.

Strontium Dog wrote:

CarlPierce wrote:The dentist is pretty much ruined - seems he had a rap for sexual harassment as well - and illegal hunting. I'd love an hour with him in a locked room and a pair of pliers for some 'dental' work on his teeth.

Killing an animal that has a name is beyond the pale.

No I just despise cruelty for pleasure.

Agi Hammerthief wrote:

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:

how to feel like a hero? Take that shot with a 50mm lens

Yes, that would be true bravery...or foolishness. If you make it out alive you have a real story to tell, and still get something to hang on the wall.

Wanna see the men with the biggest balls on the planet?

Protesters march outside Cecil the lion killer's offices
2015-07-30

Bloomington - A Minnesota dentist's killing of Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion just outside a national wildlife preserve has unleashed death threats and a global firestorm of hate messages on social media.

About 200 people protested on Wednesday outside the suburban Minneapolis office of Walter Palmer, 55, calling for him to be extradited to Zimbabwe to face charges.
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Bloomington Police are investigating threats against Palmer, whose location is not known. Because many of the threats were made online, police are having difficulty determining their origins and credibility.

A small memorial of stuffed animals stood in the entry door to the building that houses Palmer's dental practice. Signs taped to the door said "Rot in Hell" and "Palmer there is a deep cavity waiting for you!"

Demonstrators called for Palmer's arrest and asked people not to use his dental practice.
"Walter, you are a murderer, you are a terrorist," said Rachel Augusta, a Minneapolis resident and mentor coordinator at the Animal Rights Coalition, which organised the protest.
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Full text at:
http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Protesters-march-outside-Cecil-the-lion-killers-offices-20150730

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Bloomington Police are investigating threats against Palmer, whose location is not known. Because many of the threats were made online, police are having difficulty determining their origins and credibility.

A small memorial of stuffed animals stood in the entry door to the building that houses Palmer's dental practice. Signs taped to the door said "Rot in Hell" and "Palmer there is a deep cavity waiting for you!"

Demonstrators called for Palmer's arrest and asked people not to use his dental practice.
"Walter, you are a murderer, you are a terrorist," said Rachel Augusta, a Minneapolis resident and mentor coordinator at the Animal Rights Coalition, which organised the protest.
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What he did was pretty shit, but he's not a murderer or a terrorist, and even were Hell anything other than a delusional fantasy, the source from which it may be gleaned has no problem whatsoever with killing other animals.

We're a seriously fucked up species!

The proper punishment for his crime is ten years in a zimbabwean prison. He should be extradited like any other criminal.

Spearthrower wrote:

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Bloomington Police are investigating threats against Palmer, whose location is not known. Because many of the threats were made online, police are having difficulty determining their origins and credibility.

A small memorial of stuffed animals stood in the entry door to the building that houses Palmer's dental practice. Signs taped to the door said "Rot in Hell" and "Palmer there is a deep cavity waiting for you!"

Demonstrators called for Palmer's arrest and asked people not to use his dental practice.
"Walter, you are a murderer, you are a terrorist," said Rachel Augusta, a Minneapolis resident and mentor coordinator at the Animal Rights Coalition, which organised the protest.
...

What he did was pretty shit, but he's not a murderer or a terrorist, and even were Hell anything other than a delusional fantasy, the source from which it may be gleaned has no problem whatsoever with killing other animals.

We're a seriously fucked up species!

Yep. Palmer's deed was altogether vile and selfish, but the over-the-top response of some of his detractors is in the realms of comedy farce.

Mike_L wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

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Bloomington Police are investigating threats against Palmer, whose location is not known. Because many of the threats were made online, police are having difficulty determining their origins and credibility.

A small memorial of stuffed animals stood in the entry door to the building that houses Palmer's dental practice. Signs taped to the door said "Rot in Hell" and "Palmer there is a deep cavity waiting for you!"

Demonstrators called for Palmer's arrest and asked people not to use his dental practice.
"Walter, you are a murderer, you are a terrorist," said Rachel Augusta, a Minneapolis resident and mentor coordinator at the Animal Rights Coalition, which organised the protest.
...

What he did was pretty shit, but he's not a murderer or a terrorist, and even were Hell anything other than a delusional fantasy, the source from which it may be gleaned has no problem whatsoever with killing other animals.

We're a seriously fucked up species!

Yep. Palmer's deed was altogether vile and selfish, but the over-the-top response of some of his detractors is in the realms of comedy farce.

Your wrong Mike it is time we took a stand over the destruction of the planets wildlife - this scum is just an example. The publicity will prevent other sadist hunters.

Well it is not his first time either after all.

Hate to link to the Mail site but they seem to have scooped this story:

A British banker who shot a lion on a ‘trophy hunting’ holiday should be stripped of his knighthood, animal rights campaigners demanded yesterday.
Tory donor Sir David Scholey, a former director of the Bank of England, posed by the bloodied corpse of a male lion he apparently shot for fun in Zambia – and even defended the killing.
Photographed in semi-darkness, apparently soon after the hunt, the millionaire leaned back against the dead animal’s body, while a wound on its side oozed blood.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3179224/

CarlPierce wrote:

Mike_L wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

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Bloomington Police are investigating threats against Palmer, whose location is not known. Because many of the threats were made online, police are having difficulty determining their origins and credibility.

A small memorial of stuffed animals stood in the entry door to the building that houses Palmer's dental practice. Signs taped to the door said "Rot in Hell" and "Palmer there is a deep cavity waiting for you!"

Demonstrators called for Palmer's arrest and asked people not to use his dental practice.
"Walter, you are a murderer, you are a terrorist," said Rachel Augusta, a Minneapolis resident and mentor coordinator at the Animal Rights Coalition, which organised the protest.
...

What he did was pretty shit, but he's not a murderer or a terrorist, and even were Hell anything other than a delusional fantasy, the source from which it may be gleaned has no problem whatsoever with killing other animals.

We're a seriously fucked up species!

Yep. Palmer's deed was altogether vile and selfish, but the over-the-top response of some of his detractors is in the realms of comedy farce.

Your wrong Mike it is time we took a stand over the destruction of the planets wildlife - this scum is just an example. The publicity will prevent other sadist hunters.

Unless taking a stand consists of making absurd and inaccurate accusations, and terrorizing people with death threats... I don't really understand how this represents 'taking a stand'.