This Woman Smiled after shooting a giraffe, and the Internet is Outraged

Mashable Australia ^ | 16-04-15 | Brian Reis

[Oztrich Boy]

Real life Big Buck Hunter "Hero" Rebecca Francis thought she had snagged yet another trophy animal when she shot and killed a giraffe in Africa in 2010.

The 41-year-old mother of eight, who's hunted and killed everything from bears, moose and bighorn rams to zebras, lynx and antelopes, downed the beast with a bow and took a picture laying next to its carcass.

That, it seemed, was that. But she never considered what Ricky would think.

Five years later, the comedian Ricky Gervais found the picture and tweeted it to his followers, asking, "What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling?"

[Caipirabob]

What does giraffe taste like anyways? I’ll have to check.

[hinckley buzzard]

I don't get big game sport hunting. But in the end, recently we had a story about a zoo that killed a giraffe because they had too many, nobody else needed or wanted one, and it was a needless expense.

As for her posing by lying with the dead animal, I have heard of hunters doing this, a simple expression of unconscious identification.

[USS Alaska]

Why would you want to kill a giraffe? It’s not some fearsome creature?

None of your business. Are you the commissar that has the power to clear what citizens are allowed to hunt?

[outpostinmass2]

Have you ever seen someone pose with a fish they just caught?

It is the same thing.

[2nd Amendment]

Lot of good neck meat!

[Fightin Whitey]

Fly-fish for trout, slow-stalk for splittail.

Both catch ‘n release.

[Anert1899]

Bump

[Lazamataz]

She is beautiful, and I would make love to her, right next to the dead giraffe.

But I have a dead giraffe fetish.

[Lazamataz]

Why would you want to kill a giraffe?

Because it owes me money, and it's been talking crap all over town about what a wussy I am.

[MaxMax]

MMmmm, Bacon..

[jch10]

Ok, so you did a good deal by providing food for a village. Did you have to lay, smiling, beside a grand and regal old giraffe? I think not.

Let her reap what she sowed.

[MileHi]

hunters and outdoorsmen have done tens times the better effort for the conservation management of wildlife and wildlife areas aka habitat than so called bunny hugger environazi’s .....

Pittman-Robertson. They should look it up.

FReegards

[Tucker39]

Please. No more Ricky Gervais. Enough already with that busybody meddling sensationalist!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Last week someone shot an armadillo. The bullet killed it, but bounced off and hit another person.

The internet went wild with anti-hunting spewers who have no idea how much an armadillo can destroy in your yard. Plus they carry leprosy.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

If you put a cigarette in both their mouths it would look like they just had a session of beastiality.

That is so wrong.

Funny, but very wrong. So very wrong.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

At my age, I prefer to set in my warm den, look out the back window for deer. When I see a nice one, I raise the window, POW! Then hand the wife a knife and have her cut it up for the freezer.
Scares the dogs in the yard though.

[wardaddy]

My bad then

I prolly had it confused with leopard now hunter lady in Facebook

I apologuze

[wardaddy]

Geez I’m so sorry

I’m about done with this 6+

Rush Limbaugh be damned

They just ain’t all that

[dfwgator]

“Because you can’t grill it, until you kill it.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My kind of woman! She can hunt my fields any day!

Same for Sarah P! That is,if Todd will let her.