Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Cecil the Lion - Killed by a Minnesota Dentist.



I think dentists maybe make too much money.

Cecil the lion – the most famous creature in one of Zimbabwe's national parks – was killed by an American hunter who has boasted about shooting a menagerie of animals with his bow and arrow, The Telegraph can reveal.
Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, is believed to have paid £35,000 to shoot and kill the much-loved lion with a bow and arrow. The animal was shot on July 1 in Hwange National Park. Two independent sources have confirmed the hunter's identity to the paper, which has also seen a copy of the relevant hunting permit. - Finish reading here. - Telegraph

The lion was lured out of the park and shot with a bow and arrow.  Rich people spend a ton of money to have these hunts set up.  The hunter doesn't risk much - the hunt is unfair to begin with - and unnecessary killing at that.  Of course Palmer did not know the lion was a park animal and protected...  even after the kill?  Who knows?  What a wicked thing to do.

It's wrong.

Big man Palmer with leopard.

11 comments:

  1. In the misty days of yore, those majestic beasts were hunted by Kings of noble birth and worth. To have been killed by a tooth picker is beneath Cecil's majesty and splendor.

    He was a real beauty indeed.

    It is sad he is gone

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  2. Apparently he has an insatiable appetite for trophies - he's been in trouble with the law in Wisconsin for killing bear.

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    1. He best be careful then since I have read stories of science fiction where we are the "prized trophies" for all the futuristic world to see. I just watched an episode of Japanese animation (of which I am a fan) last night titled, "The Human chair."

      Really gory.

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  3. What an a-hole (and my family hunts, ) He needs to be slowly lowered into a pit of hungry Lions.

    Forget gay marriage and seminarians prancing around in small towels to the titillation of their pervy peers that has everyone in a hissy...dentists are killing lions and cute wholesome Tom Brady is lying...the world has gone MAD!

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    1. Tom Brady is not lying. His cell phone story is true but Mrs Clinton on the other hand ... see - it's a vast right wing conspiracy.

      Tom Brady would never tell a lie.

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    2. Are you high, Clairee?

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  4. Who would open his/her mouth to this obsessed psychopath? Isn't going to the dentist stressful enough?

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    1. I'm never going to the dentist again after this.

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  5. This is the last straw....

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