@lasma:
I can hope so, at the very least, might keep him from being macho man bob and killing more poor animals. However, given the fickleness of things, and the short attention span, I suspect he will be back to root canals and crowns and cavities soon enough, people will forget, and he’ll be back to proving the old adage about some men’s need to compensate for inadequacies. If he really wanted to prove himself a man, I defy him to wrestle an alligator or take a lion on with his bare hands or catch a salmon in a river with his bare hands alone.
On a related topic I was dumbfounded that this month’s National Geographic had a feature on taxidermy with photos of many, not dead, animals. It turned my stomach. I can’t imagine why they glorify it that way. It seems counter to their mission.
@musicprnt is correct - an ethical bow hunter would never take a shot that isn’t a kill shot and never draw on any animal that they do not intend to eat for sustenance. Bow hunters generally come back with less game because, when done right, it is more “fair” to the animal. You have to get quite close and have a perfect shot to harvest an animal with a bow unlike modern rifle with sights. This guy gives bow hunting a bad name and the idea of “trophy” hunting I don’t understand at all.
That’s because you’re not a gutless soulless #@!&wad.
In his own words, Palmer stated, “I deeply regret that my pursuit of an activity I love and practice responsibly and legally resulted in the taking of this lion”. It’s hard for me to fathom that this man can believe he practices his “activity” “responsibly”. He is sorry he killed a lion that is a “known, local favorite”. So it would be OK to kill some random lion that no one knew, and then just leave him to rot??? He’s a pathetic self-absorbed sociopath.
If you want a chuckle, read the Yelp reviews people are putting up… the link is in the Fortune article.
What a terrible excuse for a human being. So sad. I would have been very pleased had Cecil decapitated him instead of the reverse.
This piece of scum is no newbie to the “sport” of killing beautiful animals for his own sadistic pleasure:
I hesitate to link because there’s a picture, but for the record:
Yup, yelp reviewers have been very inventive…I hope it doesn’t let up.
An animal protection group pointed out that Cecil’s death was sad “not only from an animal welfare perspective, but also for conservation reasons.”
African lion populations have fallen almost 60% over the past three decades, and as few as 32,000 of them remain in the wild, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said.
“As troubling as it is, the rarer these trophy hunted animals become, the more hunters are willing to pay to kill them – like the American hunter who recently paid $350,000 to kill a critically endangered black rhino in Namibia,” said Jeff Flocken, the fund’s North American regional director.
Sad is that the death of Cecil means that the next male lion in the park hierarchy will most likely kill all Cecil’s cubs so that he can insert his own bloodline into the females, standard procedure for lions, so the selfish, narcisstic drive to kill a rare trophy lion obliterates his line as well. He is such a scumbag.
Notice the wording that the scumbag uses in his statement:
Not “brutal killing” or “sadistic execution” or “despicable murder” or “this is how I get off because I’m a sociopath” but “taking.” Nice euphemism, #@!&wad.
This story turns my stomach. I have a hard enough time justifying fishing as a sport, especially when the poor fish is not being caught for food, let alone something as horrible as this. Game hunting is disgusting. Period. This situation takes an already disgusting activity and multiplies it 1000000 fold. How anyone can justify this garbage in their head as a “sport” is beyond me. This will hit him where it hurts-- in the wallet. Too bad, so sad. He should feel 1/100000th of the pain he inflicted on that poor lion.
If he has children can you imagine them seeing the pictures of their father in the link in post #47 ? What a horrible sight for those children. I think the picture of him shirtless holding the dead leopard says it all – this guy is warped and has no respect for much of anything.
If he has young children, I hope they aren’t subject to the torment he is getting in the media. He deserves it- they don’t.
If the reporting is accurate (and that is certainly not a given) then maybe he apologized for “taking” the animal instead of “killing” the animal because he did not kill it. The reports I read said that he shot it with a bow and arrow, but then the company he paid for the privilege of hunting it tracked the lion for 40 hours and then shot it. So he wounded it by taking a bad shot, and it suffered for 40 hours after that until someone else put it out of its misery. Allegedly.
Maybe someone should “take” him and let him suffer for 40 hours. Sorry, this just makes my blood boil. Hurting protected animals for sport. Ugh.
This guy has caused a global outrage and unfortunately everyone around him will suffer for it. His employees will suffer because his business is now closed and his family will suffer because of their mere association with him. The press reports that he is married with 2 children. I hope he is somehow able to shelter his children from the fallout of his actions.
“Taking” sounds like legalese to me. His “sorry I’m sorry” press release was most likely written by his attorneys. I bet he is only sorry that he is now the center of the outrage.
At this point he needs body guards not attorneys.
This guy is such a liar. There’s no way they didn’t know they were stalking and killing a well-known animal. He hired locals…they knew it was Cecil. In fact, I think Palmer went specifically looking for this lion because of his distinctive looks — he’d already bagged a lion that didn’t have the flowing black mane. He needed THIS lion for his collection…and they had to lure him off a protected reserve to “take” him.
Makes my blood boil too. So I’m sharing this petition:
http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/821/738/351/demand-justice-for-cecil-the-lion-in-zimbambwe/
I don’t have a problem with hunting deer, or moose in Alaska, for example. Hunting in those circumstances culls what could get too be an overpopulation of those animals.
But killing endangered animals is horrible. Rhinos killed for the supposed aphrodisiac horn. Or bears for their testicles, or elephants for the tusks, or sharks for the fin for shark fin soup. This should be outlawed world wide.