Posted on 07/28/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by grundle
Cecil the lion, a famous black-maned resident of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, died at the hands of an American dentist, conservationists claim.
They say Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to hunt and kill Cecil with a bow and arrow. The incident occurred around July 6, with a professional hunting outfit reportedly luring Cecil outside the boundaries of the protected reserve using a dead animal as bait.
“Mr. Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this shot didn't kill him,” Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement. “They tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. Cecil, who was known all over the world would have earned millions of dollars just from sightseeing. Walter Palmer apparently paid $50,000 for the kill."
It wasn’t the first kill for Palmer, who has multiple photos posted on the website Trophy Hunt America showing the Minnesota resident posing with dead lions, rhinos, water buffalo, warthogs, and other animals.
The Telegraph is reporting from two independent sources that Palmer was indeed the hunter listed on the permit documents, and a spokesperson for Palmer told the news outlet that Palmer believes he is the one responsible for the lion’s death.
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I get your main point, but I beg to differ on a particular.
My husband killed a deer with a heart shot, when hubby was only 12 years old. The doe took two steps and dropped.
It happens. But my husband never killed another deer - he grew up in a hunting family, in a very rural area where hunting to supplement the income was the way people lived. But my husband just didn’t like doing it.
I’m hoping that more humane ways of processing farmed animals will develop. A lot of outfits have adopted Temple Grandin’s ideas.
-JT
“Hunting and fishing is an extremely spiritual thing to me, when I kill a deer, duck or turkey there is no celebration as you watch them die”
Like you hunt.
I think what you're seeing is outrage by a lot of people who don't come across this kind of thing everyday. Other people might get all worked up if the authorities fed this guy to hungry lions as a punishment. But, it wouldn't disturb me because I think the world is better off without sociopaths. So, we're all different, I guess.
Perhaps it is you that is the sociopath.
Like you do. Only someone who don’t hunt would say that.
Forget your meds this AM?
Yep.
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>> “ clams, other shellfish, octopus, caviar.” <<
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All on the garbage truck list in Leviticus.
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The gun magazines like to show some moron posing with an animal he killed. They make me sick. Around here, people eat what they shoot. (Except for targets, cans, skunks, etc.) The story in this article is disgusting. This scumbag deliberately shot a tame lion with a bow and tried to cover up the evidence. A Mugabe prison would be a learning experience for him.
This story has absolutely nothing to do with abortion. Give it a rest.
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I’ve already learned all I never wanted to know about you.
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You have no idea what the hell you are talking about. Another moron who never hunts.
From where do you get your omniscience?
“Pretty tasty, but not much meat on them bones, and obviously way more expensive than wings.”
That is odd. I’d expect frog wings to be darned expensive...
Daddy and his buddies would always field dress deer when I was growing up. Filled our freezer many years and fed us.
My dad would get royally pissed at these jackwagons who would kill a buck, tie it on their car, and parade around for everyone to ‘see their kill’. He said the meat would be ruined after the organ blood would seep in the muscle after all that time.
Well, I’m not into ‘religiosity’, so....
-JT
Yep. Thanks for the clarification.... I meant to draw out the distinction because so many on this thread have no clue... Which you have done admirably.
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