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Judi Lynn

(160,623 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 12:50 AM Oct 2018

Idaho F&G commissioner gets backlash, calls to resign after hunting trip in Africa

Source: CBS 2 News


by CBS 2 News Staff
Friday, October 12th 2018

BOISE, Idaho (CBS 2) — An Idaho Fish and Game commissioner who emailed photos of himself posing with a family of baboons he shot and killed during a recent hunting trip in Africa has led to a group of former commissioners asking for his resignation.

According to emails and photos obtained by CBS 2 News through Gov. Butch Otter's office, commissioner Blake Fischer emailed several pictures of his kills to numerous people highlighting his hunting trip.

. . .

He begins the email saying he and his wife had just returned from a two-week hunting trip to Namibia.

"First day she wanted to watch me, and 'get a feel' of Africa," Fischer said in the email obtained through the governor's office. "So I shot a whole family of baboons."

Read more: https://idahonews.com/news/local/idaho-fish-and-game-commissioner-gets-backlash-calls-to-resign-after-african-hunting-trip

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Idaho F&G commissioner gets backlash, calls to resign after hunting trip in Africa (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2018 OP
WOW! A whole family! YEEHAW! Kilt 'em all! My half-wit, white-wing shitstain buddies are brewens Oct 2018 #1
And that destruction wasn't enough. salin Oct 2018 #2
Evil person, wildly ugly inside. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2018 #4
What the fuck is wrong with these people! Hulk Oct 2018 #3
They just can't.... SergeStorms Oct 2018 #6
Sadly, that family of Scarsdale Oct 2018 #15
Disgusting POS! StarryNite Oct 2018 #5
This will sicken most hunters grantcart Oct 2018 #7
He slaughtered the nursing mothers and doll sized babies too...for fun Farmer-Rick Oct 2018 #8
Mass murderer rickyhall Oct 2018 #9
A true sportsman. Killing only what he needs to survive. keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #10
Feel free to email the coward @ ... JoeOtterbein Oct 2018 #11
Good God. He needs to be institutionalized. leftyladyfrommo Oct 2018 #12
A family of baboons! Wuddles440 Oct 2018 #13
What a goddamn asshole. dalton99a Oct 2018 #14
Proving that he's a man, eh? I think in reality he proved himself to be a scumbag who ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #16
What a sickfuck jpak Oct 2018 #17
Great white hunter theme song... workinclasszero Oct 2018 #18
What kind of people are these? I can't hardly wrap my head around why they think this is okay. YOHABLO Oct 2018 #19
'Psychopath'. byronius Oct 2018 #20
Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer resigns after bragging about killing a family of babo Judi Lynn Oct 2018 #21
Horrible absolutely horrible Raine Oct 2018 #22

brewens

(13,621 posts)
1. WOW! A whole family! YEEHAW! Kilt 'em all! My half-wit, white-wing shitstain buddies are
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 12:54 AM
Oct 2018

gonna love this!

salin

(48,955 posts)
2. And that destruction wasn't enough.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:11 AM
Oct 2018

Sorry that I clicked and read the story (not sorry it was posted, but not images I wanted in my brain as I try to head to bed/sleep.)

Deplorably despicable.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
3. What the fuck is wrong with these people!
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:45 AM
Oct 2018

Unbelievable. I just can fathom this low life scum suckers killing these creatures and taking gleeful pictures of their cowardly acts. What is wrong with this sons of bitches!

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
6. They just can't....
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 03:44 AM
Oct 2018

watch these majestic creatures in their natural habitat and be amazed at the diversity of life on our planet. They just want to make things dead. It gives them a false feeling of superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom. In a fair fight these animals would tear these assholes to bits, yet somehow with guns that could shoot through an APC, these dullards feel smug and superior to their quarry.

I detest people like this. Just like Trump's ne'er-do-well sons, Qusay and Uday, who will kill an elephant so they can have it's tail to swat flies with. I can only hope that one day the tables will be turned on them, and they can have the pleasure of being eaten alive by a pride of Lions.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
15. Sadly, that family of
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 12:39 PM
Oct 2018

baboons have a real "family values" ethic. Animals take care of their families, love them, keep them close. This idiot and his wife are repulsive. Despicable to shoot innocent animals.

Farmer-Rick

(10,211 posts)
8. He slaughtered the nursing mothers and doll sized babies too...for fun
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 06:10 AM
Oct 2018

And is proud of it. Big bad hunter, slaughtering creatures the size of infants.

The picture is horrifying.

keithbvadu2

(36,907 posts)
10. A true sportsman. Killing only what he needs to survive.
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 07:47 AM
Oct 2018

A true sportsman. Killing only what he needs to survive.

Wuddles440

(1,127 posts)
13. A family of baboons!
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:19 AM
Oct 2018

Really? How brave! Does anyone want to bet that this "great" white "hunter" and his scum wife were thinking of the Obamas while perpetrating this carnage? I'm sure that this was well received by many of the deplorables. The slaughter of these magnificent, defenseless creatures may be "legal", but it's time for the decent members of society to eradicate vermin like Fischer from our midst.

SWBTATTReg

(22,166 posts)
16. Proving that he's a man, eh? I think in reality he proved himself to be a scumbag who ...
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:44 PM
Oct 2018

obviously is in the wrong job (F and G of all things). Some people only get sexually aroused when they kill and main something. I'd take a closer look at this guy too, check his past. Usually from what I hear, there is history behind some of this actions.

Judi Lynn

(160,623 posts)
21. Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer resigns after bragging about killing a family of babo
Tue Oct 16, 2018, 11:50 AM
Oct 2018

Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer resigns after bragging about killing a family of baboons

Monday, October 15, 2018 08:28PM

Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer resigned Monday after bragging about killing a family of baboons and other animals during a hunting trip to Africa.

In the middle of September, Fischer sent an email to more than 100 friends and colleagues recapping his recent hunting trip to Namibia.

"I have high expectations and standards for every appointee in state government," said Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter in a statement announcing Fischer's resignation. "Every member of my administration is expected to exercise good judgment. Commissioner Fischer did not. Accordingly, I have accepted his resignation from the Idaho Fish and Game Commission."

Along with the email, obtained by CNN, Fischer attached 12 pictures of himself and his wife standing over various kills: an oryx, a giraffe, a waterbuck, a leopard and, perhaps most notably, a group of four dead baboons.

More:'https://abc7chicago.com/pets-animals/idaho-official-resigns-after-bragging-about-killing-a-family-of-baboons-/4491414/

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