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A Disgusting Picture (Original Post) dynasaw Jul 2013 OP
Yesch. Bubba, Bubba. What evil have you done to a noble creature. n/t Cleita Jul 2013 #1
Thems is real mens. earthside Jul 2013 #2
I can't tell from my phone - Control-Z Jul 2013 #3
People who payed $150k to hunt a rhino Recursion Jul 2013 #9
This is what the 1% does with their excess cash liberal N proud Jul 2013 #4
Bastards!!!!!!! newfie11 Jul 2013 #5
I've never understood sharp_stick Jul 2013 #6
I've seen more depressing sights . . . Brigid Jul 2013 #7
It's controversial. The guy owns a herd of rhinos and pays for it by allowing hunting of males Recursion Jul 2013 #8
That's what I would call canned hunting. n/t RebelOne Jul 2013 #16
Yep. It's sick. It also funds keeping the herd around. Recursion Jul 2013 #17
Namibia, presumably. Robb Jul 2013 #10
They dunnit fer Gawd and country. lpbk2713 Jul 2013 #11
Why the American flag? KansDem Jul 2013 #12
Because putting their penises on it might have looked kinda gay. Orsino Jul 2013 #37
I'd like to see..... JimboBillyBubbaBob Jul 2013 #13
Who the hell carries their rifle like that? pipoman Jul 2013 #14
And they put our flag on it too. nt bemildred Jul 2013 #15
I guess these "hunters" will eat their kill. Viagra works better than rhino horn. Hoyt Jul 2013 #18
Wow, tough guys. n-t Logical Jul 2013 #19
Do we get to know the names & occupations (e.g. what companies they run) of these people? LeftinOH Jul 2013 #20
Just one more example UtahLib Jul 2013 #21
Am I supposed to believe abelenkpe Jul 2013 #22
An American flag? JaneyVee Jul 2013 #23
Six grinning assholes. City Lights Jul 2013 #24
You don't even have to leave the U.S. dynasaw Jul 2013 #25
A canned hunt?!? Dawson Leery Jul 2013 #26
That's what I posted above. RebelOne Jul 2013 #38
Masters of the Universe tblue Jul 2013 #27
We done conquered a rhinosaurus for our country. God bless America. YEEEHAWWW!!!! Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #28
Just another bunch of fat, stupid, old, fucks who need to kill things to prove they are MEN. Disgust OregonBlue Jul 2013 #29
G'ah! Black Rhinoceros is extinct in the wild already Xyzse Jul 2013 #30
What to hell does taking a trophy have in common ileus Jul 2013 #31
Canned hunt on 16,000 acres? Crepuscular Jul 2013 #32
Read the attached article. Jenoch Jul 2013 #33
I read the article Crepuscular Jul 2013 #43
sick Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #34
I hope they all get ebola. Rex Jul 2013 #35
Are they gonna eat that? Spirochete Jul 2013 #36
Fuck these guys. AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #39
K&R Disgusting people. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jul 2013 #40
This is a disgusting picture & no one here seems to care which is even more disgusting. William769 Jul 2013 #41
Vladimir's icon worshipping neo-nazis. Dawson Leery Jul 2013 #42
Jesus Christ... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #45
How socio-paths make their bones. Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #44

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
3. I can't tell from my phone -
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 08:54 AM
Jul 2013

Who are these people? Why have they (I assume) killed this beautiful animal? I thought we protected against this kind of kill. One of the saddest pictures ever.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
9. People who payed $150k to hunt a rhino
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:06 AM
Jul 2013

This guy in South Africa runs a rhino ranch and has the largest rhino heard in the world. How he pays for it is allowing hunting of "surplus" males at about $150k per.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
6. I've never understood
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 08:55 AM
Jul 2013

the asshole and his canned hunt. These morons paid tens of thousands of dollars to more or less shoot a rhino in an enclosed pen.

They usually tend to forget that part of the story when they're relating it to fellow assholes at the gun club.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
8. It's controversial. The guy owns a herd of rhinos and pays for it by allowing hunting of males
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:05 AM
Jul 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/hunters-paying-150-000-to-kill-an-endangered-rhino-may-save-the-species.html

On the one hand, ick. On the other hand, it's funding keeping the population alive.

Robb

(39,665 posts)
10. Namibia, presumably.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:08 AM
Jul 2013

The money these hunters spend for the permit to kill a rhino is astounding, I understand around a half million $US. Half of that goes to the government directly for the permit, half to a trust that's meant to focus on preserving the animals. I can't imagine it's administered to any standard that would impress.

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)
11. They dunnit fer Gawd and country.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:09 AM
Jul 2013



"If we don't kill em over there now we'll be killin' em in Cleveland later."


OMFG

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
37. Because putting their penises on it might have looked kinda gay.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:09 PM
Jul 2013

Their flag and their guns are stand-ins.

JimboBillyBubbaBob

(1,389 posts)
13. I'd like to see.....
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:19 AM
Jul 2013

.....each of them impaled up their respective anuses on a huge rhino's horn. The turds wouldn't be grinning then.

 

pipoman

(16,038 posts)
14. Who the hell carries their rifle like that?
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:19 AM
Jul 2013

Looks like a bunch of freaking idiots with too much money and not enough brains combined to do a word jumble..

LeftinOH

(5,357 posts)
20. Do we get to know the names & occupations (e.g. what companies they run) of these people?
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 09:46 AM
Jul 2013

I would really REALLY like to know who they are. Betcha they aren't just "average Joes" on a hunting trip.

UtahLib

(3,179 posts)
21. Just one more example
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:12 AM
Jul 2013

of the most vile and contemptable creatures on this earth doing what comes naturally.

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
22. Am I supposed to believe
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:21 AM
Jul 2013

Those pasty white fat middle aged dudes did something heroic and strenuous shooting down an endangered rhino?

dynasaw

(998 posts)
25. You don't even have to leave the U.S.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:18 PM
Jul 2013

"There are over 1000 canned hunting sites available for your killing pleasure in the U.S. All kinds of rare, exotic animals are fenced in on commercial hunting grounds that you can shoot just about any which way you choose -- for a price. Zebras cost somewhere around $4,500 to put a bullet through. Lodging costs are on top of the kill price. Killing a Transcaspian Urial Sheep will set you back upwards of around $17,000 while a Siberian Ibex is more than $19,000."

http://www.livehonestly.com/29/post/2011/01/canned-hunting-makes-dreams-come-true.html

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
26. A canned hunt?!?
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:20 PM
Jul 2013

Remember when those scumbags from Montgomery Gentry went a canned hunt?
Remember, Ted Nugent likes to hunt animals from helicopters.
These right wing scumbags are yellow.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
38. That's what I posted above.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:13 PM
Jul 2013

It is definitely a canned hunt. I was copy editor for 30 outdoors magazine across the U.S. And even most legitimate hunters do not believe in canned hunts.

tblue

(16,350 posts)
27. Masters of the Universe
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:21 PM
Jul 2013

Entitled ugly asses. I don't like hunting. And no I do not eat meat. That IS disgusting. Thanks for sharing. Ugh.

 

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
28. We done conquered a rhinosaurus for our country. God bless America. YEEEHAWWW!!!!
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:23 PM
Jul 2013

I just love the smell of bloated animal carcass in the morning, it smells like....Levitra!!!

OregonBlue

(7,754 posts)
29. Just another bunch of fat, stupid, old, fucks who need to kill things to prove they are MEN. Disgust
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:29 PM
Jul 2013

Real men want to save the planet, not destroy it.

Crepuscular

(1,057 posts)
32. Canned hunt on 16,000 acres?
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 12:57 PM
Jul 2013

Not exactly what one would normally call a canned hunt, the term is usually applied to "hunts" which take place in small enclosures (a couple of acres).

Trophy hunting is not my cup of tea but there is a pretty good argument to be made that this type of hunting will do far more to protect the viability of the species then hurt it and if that's the case then I have no problem with it. The meat does not go to waste, it's donated to feed the local poor, which is also not a bad thing.

Modern conservation management utilizes sport hunting as an effective tool to manage game populations, that's simply a fact.

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
33. Read the attached article.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 01:30 PM
Jul 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/hunters-paying-150-000-to-kill-an-endangered-rhino-may-save-the-species.html

They pretty much drove right up to where the old, sterile, bull was taking a dust bath.

While I am not a fan of canned hunts or even hunts on large game farms, you are correct that an argument can be made that this kind of rhino hunt will help preserve the species more than harming it. They have a surplus of bulls. The bulls fight with each other and they do not need all of them to best breed the most offspring.

There are more of some species of African antelope in Texas than there are in Africa.

Crepuscular

(1,057 posts)
43. I read the article
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:35 PM
Jul 2013

using scouts to track specific animals and using a truck to get to where you can stalk the animal does not a canned hunt make. People do it all the time out west, driving and glassing for deer, elk or antelope and then stalking them. It's how much of the hunting is done in Africa.

Canned "hunts" typically take place in very small, high fence enclosures, where the animal being executed has no reasonable chance to flee, that was not what occurred in this case, 16,000 acres gives the animal ample room to escape.

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