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Most Photographed Lion shot for sport
SAND DIAL wrote: In addition to that: Jul 29 15 05:06 am Link SAND DIAL wrote: It would prove that you have to live with the decisions you make in life. It will prove that just because you have money, it doesn't give you the right to slaughter a beautiful creature in such a despicable way. There is the ole saying "You made your bed. Now lie in it." Jul 29 15 05:50 am Link Sport hunting is just so barbaric. It makes no sense in today's society. This dentist is just evil and a lair. His records show this was not the first time. May be eye for an eye, he should capture him and put him in the jungle and shackle his feet and let the lions and tigers hunt him down. Jul 29 15 07:09 am Link 'Cause & Effect... Action & Reaction'. The laws of the jungle. Kill or be killed. I recall the 'mess' in Ohio where a significant number of Bengal Tigers were killed. There arent that many left, worldwide; Zanesville Animal Massacre Included 18 Rare Bengal Tigers abcnews.go.com › US Oct 19, 2011 - Cops in Zanesville, Ohio, were forced to shoot down as many as 56 ... so many Bengal tigers killed when they are on the verge of extinction. Jul 29 15 08:21 am Link I am enjoying watching the growing groundswell of internet-based wrath against him. Jul 29 15 08:28 am Link SAND DIAL wrote: I don't think that the laws of the jungle apply in a situation when one of the parties to a battle is using weapons that are not found like that in the jungle, but are engineered, utilizing vehicles that are manufactured in factories that have nothing to do with jungle... or nature for that matter. Jul 29 15 08:38 am Link Udor, I was not referring to the human but to a new male, new cubs. That Law. Thanks to Drudge, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … babwe.html Jul 29 15 09:05 am Link Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel became emotional Tuesday night discussing the situation: https://youtu.be/_LzXpE1mjqA Jul 29 15 09:13 am Link Robb Mann wrote: Yes, his Yelp page has gone haywire. Jul 29 15 09:23 am Link According to the BBC poaching isn't his only hobby: "Records from the Minnesota Board of Dentistry also show that Mr Palmer was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint which was settled in 2006. A receptionist alleged that he had made indecent comments to her. Mr Palmer admitted no wrongdoing and agreed to pay out more than $127,000.." Jul 29 15 09:39 am Link "...The 13-year-old lion, recognizable by the black streaks in his mane, suffered a slow death, according to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force. The hunters lured him out of the sanctuary of the park with a dead animal on top of a vehicle, the conservation group said. Palmer, officials said, then shot the lion with a crossbow, a method for which he is known. But Cecil survived another 40 hours until the hunters tracked him down and shot him with a gun. ..." http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/africa/zi … on-killed/ Extradite Minnesotan Walter James Palmer to face justice in Zimbabwe. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti … e-zimbabwe  Jul 29 15 10:01 am Link That guy is NOT a hunter, he is a POACHER! No self respecting hunter is going to defend the actions of a poacher. He has a prior for poaching and also paid off a sexual harassment complaint. He needs to be sent back to Africa to face the music for his crime. Jul 29 15 10:10 am Link Bobby C wrote: Signed! Jul 29 15 10:39 am Link Walter J Palmer, DDS = NOT !!! Walter J Palmer, POS = YES !!!  Jul 29 15 10:54 am Link udor wrote: I think this example shows that giving a guy a knife doesn't work. If they're enough of an asshat, they're going to find a way around it Jul 29 15 07:48 pm Link "forced to kill" ≠ hunted for pleasure/sport SAND DIAL wrote: Jul 29 15 07:51 pm Link Robb Mann wrote: I told everyone he looked creepy. Jul 30 15 04:11 pm Link I dont like some of the voices on the otherside though such as the head of PETA who calls for him to be hanged in zimbabwe. in the end he did something illegal, but the many who are calling for HIS death by violent means in my opinion are mentally ill. its like these celebritys and animal rights activists are riding a wave of insanity and feel free to let their inner lunatic come out.. he commited a crime...but it was a animal at the end of the day. lions and bears are hunted all the time. its just considered legal in other circumstances. Jul 30 15 05:09 pm Link SAND DIAL wrote: Missed that post of yours! Jul 30 15 06:26 pm Link ernst tischler wrote: I don't think he's been charged with any crime, and I doubt he will be. The guides may suffer some consequences (financial) for the embarrassment, but Zimbabwe wants to hold on to what's left of it's crumbling tourism/hunting industry. Jul 30 15 07:13 pm Link Tony From Syracuse wrote: This is someone who purposely(proven by the bait lure) and knowingly (assumed, from prior history) chose to break the law and kill a protected animal. This is not a man who just shot a lion. That is a very different thing ... and while I would still dissaprove, in that case I'd blame the system, and not him personally. Jul 30 15 07:15 pm Link This is from an Eco Blog, Similarly every celebrity in Hollywood has rushed to publish some sappy tweet about the horrors of shooting a lion. In fact shooting old male lions is a good policy. It's good for the people - hunters and local natives - and it's good for the lions as a pride and individually. Lions live differently from other big cats. Leopards and tigers are solitary hunters but lions are social beings. The web says lions live about 14 years in the wild and Cecil was only 13. But that's for a female lion. The males only live to about ten. Cecil was a very old male lion. A pride of lions is a group of female hunters who are periodically captured by a pair of males usually brothers. The bigger less agile males are not well adapted for bringing down antelope. They are optimized for fighting with other male lions over sexual rights to the females. After a few years as the dominant males of pride, another pair of male lions - younger and stronger - will evict them. Without a group of females to hunt for them the ousted males slowly decline. They starve to death or turn man eater. Cecil had had his time on earth. He had passed on this genes. Nature was done with him. We shouldn't get all misty about old Cecil. Being a male lion is a good life - plenty of sex, the 'lions share' of the meat, and you just lounge around in the sun most of the time. But it doesn't last forever. Nature is through with ten year old male lions, but human society still has a use for them. They provide income for the natives and sport for the 'white hunters'. Cecil provided news stories for the silly and sentimental too. Cecil was not a house cat. He was a wild animal and he lived by wild animal rules. Dying in a hunt was a better end than he could have expected from nature. Cecil and his brother probably ran off another pair of males a few years ago and took over the pride. If you want to wax sympathetic over the plight of old lions - feel for them, not Cecil. They starved to death and the bugs ate their carcasses with no Hollywood celebrities to mourn them. Jul 30 15 09:41 pm Link Tony From Syracuse wrote: PETA is about power and money [like many Orgs]. Jul 30 15 09:43 pm Link Yep...good points. and seeing comment sections and new reporting on this story, I'm starting to sense a slow but steady pushback to the insane response to this story by more level headed people. I think people, myself included were initially sympathetic..but now am tiring of the lunatics calling for his death and the ruining of his career. I will say one thing though....it appears by reports that they...or at least someone in the party tried to destroy the GPS tracker on the lion. so its like they knew they screwed up and decided to try and cover it up. a panicked response....sure...but still it does kinda show a certain intent to deceive, so it would be hard to accept their side when they say that it was all just a mistake when they didnt just come clean to authorities..the same outcome was going to happen anyways. I also wonder how such a popular animal could have escaped the notice of these guides. I wonder if the dentist explicitly said.."I want THAT one" I want to take down that popular lion. he just didnt forsee the aftermath. Jul 30 15 10:07 pm Link I think as a society, our values and energy are misplaced. All one has to do is look at current events.  Jul 31 15 11:04 am Link Jul 31 15 01:01 pm Link I read today that there are more lions at zoos in the US than in the wild in Africa. That amazed me. As the population of Africa continues to grow there will be less and less room for wild animals especially large predators. Jul 31 15 01:17 pm Link Instinct, I have read that there are lots of 'pet' [cough] lions. As of 20 years ago there were lots of lions in Africa. Remember the Ohio incident when 19 Tigers were shot? That was like 1% of the Tigers [Bengals?] in the world. Jul 31 15 07:20 pm Link Another perspective: In Zimbabwe we don't cry for lions http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opini … lions.html Aug 04 15 06:43 pm Link wow great read above! unfortunately too late for the dentist I'm afraid. the mentally ill have already have worked their craziness on his life. Aug 04 15 06:46 pm Link Monad Studios wrote: Excellent find Aug 04 15 08:00 pm Link Monolith Photography wrote: I have no idea who the pretty blonde is on the left. Aug 04 15 08:28 pm Link More reactions from the people who actually live there http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/africa/zi … index.html Aug 05 15 05:52 pm Link |
