Godaddy CEO shoots and kills elephant and endangered leopard

[palemale]

I saw the video on HuffPost, but not the one about the leopard. I love how he claims to be doing a public service. He has enough money that the could have paid to have the elephants moved away from the villages, too. If it was about feeding people, he could have hired professionals to cull the elephants, butcher them and distribute the meat in an orderly fashion. What a jerk.

What the hell is godaddy anyway?

 

[Spiff]

Ah, nothing says manliness more than a wealthy tycoon exhibiting his dominance over nature with his toy guns.

 

[jackoroe]

If he did something wrong, isn't it Zimbabwe's issue to deal with? I'm not a sport hunter, but if that's what he wants to do with his time, who cares?

 

[landers]

Sounds like somebody is suffering from microphallus.

Is that the need to kill everything with a bigger dick than yours?

 

[Kulindahr]

If he did something wrong, isn't it Zimbabwe's issue to deal with? I'm not a sport hunter, but if that's what he wants to do with his time, who cares?

If the leopard is an endangered species, everyone should.

 

[RobinGoodfellow]

Boycott Godaddy.

For the elephant problem he should have bought these villagers an electric fence or employed other non-lethal methods instead. And there's no excuse I know of for shooting the leopard. The sick fucker was just sport hunting.

I'm not condoning either kill. At the same time, if the elephant has been determined to be a public danger, as some elephants legitimately are (to the local ecology as well as man), the only way of dealing with it is to shoot it. Non-lethal methods simply do not work, and an electric fence is worse than a joke...

RG

 

[Kulindahr]

Just FYI, there's a way to tell the difference between a hunter for whom the excitement is the chase, and someone who's into killing: offer them a rifle with a camera hooked to the trigger instead of a firing pin.

 

[Zu-Mendel]

Just FYI, there's a way to tell the difference between a hunter for whom the excitement is the chase, and someone who's into killing: offer them a rifle with a camera hooked to the trigger instead of a firing pin.

This.

I support hunting 100%, provided that the hunter intends to be the primary beneficiary of the carcase, and donates the remaining body which he/she is ignorant of its use to somebody who isn't. The concept of taking a life for the thrill of taking a life, as evidenced by the fact that he used nothing of the creature, is disturbing.

I've only intentionally ended the life of one higher-order (excluding insects) animal with no motive beyond ending its life, and that was when I had my dog put to sleep to end his suffering. Protip: don't adopt elderly dogs unless you are willing to have your heart broken sooner than you'd wish.


Killing for pleasure is something that make's me question a person's mental and emotional health.

 

[Kulindahr]

This.

I support hunting 100%, provided that the hunter intends to be the primary beneficiary of the carcase, and donates the remaining body which he/she is ignorant of its use to somebody who isn't. The concept of taking a life for the thrill of taking a life, as evidenced by the fact that he used nothing of the creature, is disturbing.

I've only intentionally ended the life of one higher-order (excluding insects) animal with no motive beyond ending its life, and that was when I had my dog put to sleep to end his suffering. Protip: don't adopt elderly dogs unless you are willing to have your heart broken sooner than you'd wish.


Killing for pleasure is something that make's me question a person's mental and emotional health.

Back when I could still get around in the woods well, I got better than one deer a year. It made me truly understand the native American prayers thanking the Great Spirit for the life of the animal to sustain my life.

The meat went to my freezer. The bones were boiled to get every last bit of meat. The large bones got donated to some organization that had a use for them, the small bones went to an outfit that made natural fertilizer. The guts stayed where I made my kill, to feed various woodlands critters. And the hide, except for one year when I tried my hand at home tanning, was donated to either the Elks Lodge hide program or to a charity that made deerskin gloves for people with skin conditions that required them to have soft, supple gloves.

I can't think of anything we wasted. Even the years we couldn't give away the skull, it became a piece for target practice, after which the fragments joined the soil just as the bones of any deer dying naturally would do.

I can't fathom doing it any other way. I truly can't fathom, and am horrified at, hunters who merely wound an animal and then don't track it down to end the misery they inflicted, instead just shrugging and looking for another target, to try again (which is illegal -- but it's essentially impossible to get a conviction unless the guy had hunting partners who will testify against him).