I wish I had won the lotto the other day so that I could offer $3.5 million for a permit to hunt the worthless son of a bitch who kills this incredibly rare, endangered black rhino.
Human turd spends $350,000 to kill endangered rhino
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What’s this business about “non-breeding?” With a population of 4000, every member of the gene pool is valuable. And he was “scheduled for removal” because he was threatening other wildlife? What is that about? Rhinos are kind of aggressive, aren’t they?
I doubt anyone consulted the rhino. My suggested solution to the poaching problem was to start a rumor that conservation officials were injecting something into rhino horns that makes men’s dicks fall off, or at least not work. There was actually some discussion of actually injecting something toxic, but rumors can be effective.
Yes, incredibly silly and condescending rumors, invented by people who don’t really understand the subculture they’re trying to fool and discussed openly on the internet, have been effective agents of change in many documented cases.
The silliest thing about this story, to me, is that the safari club’s defense of the auction is that the rhino in question is an old, crappy rhinoceros anyway. Where is the glory in hunting a crappy, useless rhino?
P.S. Personally, I don’t see the glory in hunting anything in the age of science and firearms, but clearly these folks don’t see eye-to-eye with me on that. It’s not that surprising that some humans still have an interest in hunting, seeing as the activity was integral to our evolution and all, but the form it has taken on in the last century or two is pretty silly and vestigial.
Yep, jeep out into the woods, drink Jack Daniels for breakfast & then go play with guns. What could be manlier than that?
Steve: in that case, then insecticide it is!
http://www.enca.com/south-africa/rhino-horns-poisoned-deter-poachers
http://nation.time.com/2014/01/12/permit-to-hunt-endangered-black-rhino-sold-for-350000/
I wonder what the going auction rate is for pulling the wings off a butterfly.
Touché.