Scumbag US Dentist Poaches Awesome Lion

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/lion-killing-dentist-walter-palmer-also-preyed-on-women-sexual-harassment-claim-reveals/
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
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    no more forever."
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  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    Makes you wonder how much I'm overpaying my dentist.
    Alright, alright, alright!
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,760
    edited July 2015
    JK_Livin said:

    Makes you wonder how much I'm overpaying my dentist.

    $50,000 just to kill a lion does seem pretty rich for a dentist. But he could be wealthy through other channels of course. Maybe he comes from money, owns a second business, etc. How much money he has is really neither here nor there (unless he's come into it illegally).
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    JK_Livin said:

    Makes you wonder how much I'm overpaying my dentist.

    true that


    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    PJ_Soul said:

    JK_Livin said:

    Makes you wonder how much I'm overpaying my dentist.

    $50,000 just to kill a lion does seem pretty rich for a dentist. But he could be wealthy through other channels of course. Maybe he comes from money, owns a second business, etc. How much money he has is really neither here nor there (unless he's come into it illegally).
    I think money has a lot to do with it. Some but not all feel money is power and use it the wrong way.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    edited July 2015
    PJ_Soul said:

    JK_Livin said:

    Makes you wonder how much I'm overpaying my dentist.

    $50,000 just to kill a lion does seem pretty rich for a dentist. But he could be wealthy through other channels of course. Maybe he comes from money, owns a second business, etc. How much money he has is really neither here nor there (unless he's come into it illegally).
    My cousin is married to a guy that goes on safaris and brings back "trophies". Not big game, but his high ceiling living room would make Ace Ventura do this ...

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    I'm not sure if I was more confused that someone would like to put a bunch of dead animals all over their walls or trying to reason why they would pay so much money to put dead animals all over their walls. And it wasn't like the guy had tons of money.

    The other confusing thing is that the guy seemed to like animals (living) about 100X more then me.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,945
    So I get up today and read a story about a guy who landed a 1300lb. Marlin, off the coast of Hawaii. I think it was Hawaii. Anyway, granted Marlins are not an endangered species, how does everyone feel about this? They showed the Marlin on the back of a pickup truck, dying, or dead. Pretty sure this fish is going to end up on a wall, in this guys house.

    How do you feel about this?
    No issues with this?
    Big issues with this?

    And just so everyone knows, I think the dentist is a piece of fucking garbage.
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

    So I get up today and read a story about a guy who landed a 1300lb. Marlin, off the coast of Hawaii. I think it was Hawaii. Anyway, granted Marlins are not an endangered species, how does everyone feel about this? They showed the Marlin on the back of a pickup truck, dying, or dead. Pretty sure this fish is going to end up on a wall, in this guys house.

    How do you feel about this?
    No issues with this?
    Big issues with this?

    And just so everyone knows, I think the dentist is a piece of fucking garbage.

    According to Kurt Cobain, fish don't have feelings so it's OK to eat them.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    chadwick said:

    ted is an idiot

    fixed
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,862
    Fish don't have souls.












    Except for whales and dolphins
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    There are over 100,000 signatures on on a petition to extradite this guy for killing a lion. Yet when 20 plus 7 and 8 year old children are murdered, 200 people won't sign a petition for congress to pass gun control laws. Sickening.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,862
    dafuq?

    http://www.thenation.com/article/after-shooting-gun-control-petition-breaks-white-house-record/
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    MayDay10 said:

    dafuq?

    http://www.thenation.com/article/after-shooting-gun-control-petition-breaks-white-house-record/

    Ok, let me find it. A south Carolina petition was started and it drew very few signatures.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,862
    I just looked it up and there were well over 100K to close some loophole in South Carolina. It also doesn't help that this occurred in 'gun country'.


    This game to pass judgement on people because they are bothered by a story like this.... but not bothered (that you know of) by story _________ is extremely lame by the way.
  • lotsalemon
    lotsalemon Boston Posts: 2,739
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

    So I get up today and read a story about a guy who landed a 1300lb. Marlin, off the coast of Hawaii. I think it was Hawaii. Anyway, granted Marlins are not an endangered species, how does everyone feel about this? They showed the Marlin on the back of a pickup truck, dying, or dead. Pretty sure this fish is going to end up on a wall, in this guys house.

    How do you feel about this?
    No issues with this?
    Big issues with this?

    And just so everyone knows, I think the dentist is a piece of fucking garbage.

    Marlins aren't furry so no one cares about them :)

    I jest...but you bring up a good point. This probably wouldn't have batted an eye (like the hundreds of other trophy hunts that happen), except the circumstances around this particular incident put it on a different level...luring an animal off a reserve to kill it. What he and his group did was illegal. It's poaching at that point.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,862
    Authorities are apparently looking for him, and Zimbabwe has asked for him to be extradited.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    MayDay10 said:

    This game to pass judgement on people because they are bothered by a story like this.... but not bothered (that you know of) by story _________ is extremely lame by the way.

    Not sure if Speedy was passing judgment but if so, I don't give a rat's ass :sunglasses:

    Honestly though, thanks for this, MayDay. I'll be pissed off by what pisses me off. Not gonna justify to anyone; no need to.


  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    edited July 2015
    MayDay10 said:

    I just looked it up and there were well over 100K to close some loophole in South Carolina. It also doesn't help that this occurred in 'gun country'.


    This game to pass judgement on people because they are bothered by a story like this.... but not bothered (that you know of) by story _________ is extremely lame by the way.

    No, it's not lame. What's lame is people getting this bothered by the killing of an animal more than they would if this was a human. Plus the hypocrisy of violence for violence I've been seeing.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    R.I.P. Cecil.

    What a travesty. I do not envy this man's massively bad karma.
    Last-12-Exit said:

    MayDay10 said:

    I just looked it up and there were well over 100K to close some loophole in South Carolina. It also doesn't help that this occurred in 'gun country'.


    This game to pass judgement on people because they are bothered by a story like this.... but not bothered (that you know of) by story _________ is extremely lame by the way.

    No, it's not lame. What's lame is people getting this bothered by the killing of an animal more than they would if this was a human. Plus the hypocrisy of violence for violence I've been seeing.
    If you took the emotional side of it out, one could say "Well, at least humans are not endangered (yet) the way lions are." We don't (at least most) don't think that way.

    But seriously, that to me is a big part of the point- that a human, purely for his own warped sense of pleasure, would kill this beautiful and endangered animal. And on a purely biological level, it would be healthier for fewer lion to be shot and more human to be eaten by lions. I can think of one dentist who who do well to at least be a sacrificial offering that way.

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    -Roberto Benigni

  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    I don't know what the laws are concerning hunting these animals. It's obviously legal in Zimbabwe. Is there any evidence that he killed this lion on protected grounds? Is "luring" the same as a deer Hunter putting out corn during deer season? Or was he just saying "come here kitty kitty?"

    What evidence is there that he broke the law? I know the guides were in some trouble.

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