Cecil the Lion

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A word for Cecil - and several for the vile piece of shit who lured him to his death.

Such a brave man. Or to put it another way, scumbag.

I'm being controlled at the moment.
 
"Now, what's a good way to spend a large amount of money and get the whole world to hate me in one go..?"
 
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fecking hell I didn't realise he Oliver Queen'd the poor creature
 
Welsh Wonder said:
fecking hell I didn't realise he Oliver Queen'd the poor creature
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He tried but only wounded it. They tracked it down 40 hours later to shoot it. There's apparently also a picture of him and his bow next to a dead rhino. I'd be in favour of covering him in jam and releasing some hornets, personally.
 
I do feel we need to take a step back for a moment and just acknowledge the fact that 'Cecil' and 'Jericho' are real Lion's names.
 
The feck is wrong with these people?!

Boggles my mind that there are scum out there that think this is acceptable in this day and age.
 
theyneverlearn said:
They're the names that the lions chose, I for one would not argue with them.
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That brought a smile to a thread I didn't want to smile at.

I can't help thinking that this garbage might be regretting his actions. But not for the right reasons, so stuff him.
 
I understand the hunters who go after deer, they actually do have to be culled and thinned out or they would destroy the land, but lions etc should be off limits.
It can't be just shooting or they would like up tin cans and be done with it.
 
Hopefully this brings more attention onto the canned hunting industry in Africa. I realize this wasn't a canned hunt, but more so an illegal poach. There are hundreds of lions that are raised on canned hunting farms in places likes South Africa, which are sold for massive fees to wealthy westerners who want to experience "the thrill of the hunt", which usually involves drugging the lion, followed by the hunter pursuing it on foot and shooting it to death when it's already half unconscious.
 
Disgusting really.

Not sure the ensuing internet reaction will be proportional, mind.
 
Rado_N said:
Disgusting really.

Not sure the ensuing internet reaction will be proportional, mind.
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You're right....It should be much worse than what it will be.

cnut of a man. Hopefully he gets his comeuppance, in a really nasty and twisted way too. Even that will be too good for him though.
 
Don't really understand the thrill from this sort of thing. He effectively hired two people to do the heavy lifting (track and bait it) then he just shoots it and he still messed it up.
 
...aka Las Cortinas said:
You're right....It should be much worse than what it will be.

cnut of a man. Hopefully he gets his comeuppance, in a really nasty and twisted way too. Even that will be too good for him though.
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Yea, because that'd show him how much better you are than him.
 
These sort of 'hunters' should be considered something like sex tourists and subject to some sort of domestic law.
 
Rado_N said:
Yea, because that'd show him how much better you are than him.
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I didn't say two wrongs make a right. It's an unfortunate side effect of my inherent Humanity that I realise the hypocrisy of what I say, but would still like to see him suffer anyway. The cnut.
 
The article says he thought he was on a 'legal hunt'.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but since when is killing any lion 'legal'?
 
Sir A1ex said:
Probably worth leaving a review in fact...

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I just left one - can't see it on there yet though.

But this one, left today, made me laugh - this person is either risking being sued for libel, or it's true which adds fuel to the flames!

I cracked my tooth while in town on business and called to make an appointment... They are not open during their stated business hours. I tried to leave a message but received no call back during the day.

After a little more research into the business, I will be making an appointment with another in network provider. The dentist, Dr. Palmer, has apparently had to pay money to a former employee: "According to a corrective action agreement he reached with the board, Palmer's insurer paid $127,500 to a former employee and patient who accused him of ongoing sexual harassment. The woman claimed he made unwelcome comments about and physical contact with her breasts, buttocks and genitals."

He also is apparently an unethical psycho that paid over $50,000 to lure a beloved lion off of a nature preserve and kill it... leaving the lion's pride unprotected.

I don't know what is wrong with Minnesota and why they allow such terrible people to hold licenses in the medical profession.
 
Aldo said:
The article says he thought he was on a 'legal hunt'.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but since when is killing any lion 'legal'?
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Well it might be legal, whether we like it or not. But it's never moral.
 
Aldo said:
The article says he thought he was on a 'legal hunt'.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but since when is killing any lion 'legal'?
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Its legal in a number of African countries where canned hunting is legal. Lion farms raise lions or buy them from petting parks, then charge wealthy western hunter types a massive sum for a hunt. They profit handsomely from this and its completely legal.
 
Thanks. I was certainly in the impression that whatever hunting and poaching happens, is all done illegally. A quick look around tells me that the lion population has dropped by 42% in the last two decades, well they keep it legal till the species is officially labelled endangered?
 
I just happened to come across this since I go on Safari in South Africa at least once a year and its a hot topic in the Safari world. Many people aren't aware that the African Lion is in danger of extinction. There were roughly 200,000 of them as recently in the 70s, now there are thought to be somewhere between 15-20,000. Poaching isn't actually the main reason for the decline, it's mainly down to human encroachment on land Lions have been roaming for ages.
 
Aldo said:
The article says he thought he was on a 'legal hunt'.

Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but since when is killing any lion 'legal'?
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Ignorance is no excuse for failing to conduct your own due diligence. feck him, hope he fries.
 
:lol: His Yelp page is getting hammered. Yelp can't remove the comments faster than they are coming in.
 
It's not something I would ever dream of doing and I don't think much of the people who do it

But there are legal hunts for stuff like that in Africa. It just so happened he hunted the wrong lion. If it wasn't A famous lion nobody would have known


Now the guys business is going to suffer and his family will be ridiculed due a majorly out of proportion mass outcry
 
I never got the whole hunting wild animals thing, let alone posing with the dead animal. Like look at me, I'm the big man, I shot this Lion with my big gun from a distance, go me.
 
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