An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.
Based elephants. Absolutely majestic animals.
More like elephants stepped on my face, am I right?
you win the internet today
Just when you think the world is all injustice and pain, you get a feel good story like this one.
Should taxidermy him and give him to the Elephants. Based on the amount of “trophies” he had, it’s what he would have wanted. To the victor go the spoils.
Hahaha
If we’re gonna pretend hunting is sport, you’ve gotta be prepared for the other team to show up and play.
He was hunting antelopes, not elephants at least. But I’m still glad the elephants showed up.
He had hunted elephants previously and had elephant trophies, so I have no sympathy for him.
so they remembered him
The was hunting yellow backed duiker which, A, are evidently insanely easy to hunt. So easy that you can evidently shine a light at it at night, walk right up to it, and club it to death.
They’re a vital food source for a bit part of central Africa.
And 2, they’re so heavily hunted that they’re at serious risk of endangerment.
I said something in another post about there being a chance this was a genuine conversation effort, but after doing some reading; no. This guy is just an asshole. He got justifiably trampled by elephants doing something for fun that the people of central Africa do every day to feed themselves.
They’re a vital food source for a bit part of central Africa.
And 2, they’re so heavily hunted that they’re at serious risk of endangerment.Food source or at risk of endangerment? Pick an argument.
…this was a genuine conversation effort…
Ah, I see. Don’t bother.
Still learning that more than one thing can be true at a time?
They’re also just being an asshole because OP accidentally wrote “conVERsation” instead of “conSERvation”, and that obviously invalidates the whole argument, duh.
If we’re going to pretend it’s a sport, let both sides be humans.
Billionaire hunting billionaires? The Victor gets the spoils? I’d watch that on Netflix. For free. While browsing.
I mean, the guise we use for hunting is that it’s for population control to properly conserve the environment. I suppose if you wanted to say there were some populations that needed controlling on environmental grounds, like billionaires or something, I might be amenable.
It’s more like that hunting permit fees fund actual conservation efforts, not that there’s really much of a legitimate conservation effect from the hunting itself. (Except maybe when it’s an invasive species.)
Sure, I guess you could apply license fees for hunting permits on billionaires to conservation efforts if you insist.
Whoopsies! There goes another one that we’ve hunted to extinction. 🤷🏻♂️
When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment. Deer in North America is an example that needs to be controlled.
Is don’t know to what extent though.
When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment.
Exactly…
When corrupt capitalists are “saved” from taxation, they tend to hoard wealth and wreck havoc on the economy. Drastically lowering not only everyone else’s quality of life, but in many cases their physical health and well-being along with everyone they know and interact with
It’s a classic trolly problem.
Track one: about 8,300,000,000 people
Track 2: 3,500 people that aimed the trolleybat track 1.
Would you turn the switch back so it saves 8.3 billion people, at the expense of of the less than 4 thousand people that put us in front of the trolley?
Wish granted: millionaires now hunt us for sport.
I thought we were calling these “layoffs” and their less fun variant “attrition”?
I mean they already do that, at least if it were official it would give a legal way to get rid of them
He was prepared (brought a gun) but simply lost.
Everyone’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Yaaaaayyyyyy!!
Fate loves irony
I will never not feel sadness towards the loss of life, if not just for the people around them that mourn.
But I can’t say much value was lost. Every child death in gaza had more potential to create value then whoever this was.
Trample/Eat the Fucking Rich.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Like if you asked me to come up with an ancient African curse, I would have never come up with the phrase, “May you be crushed by the elephants you hunt”
