The Last Great Act of Defiance...

[LateLifeCrisis]

the funny part, if there is one in this, is that he wasn't hunting the elephant. they didn't see the elephants. one rushed up and grabbed him with her trunk and lifted him up. the others shot the elephant to help hum, and when it fell dead, it landed on him. i had the same thing happen to me with a full figured sex starved woman once. i was screaming so loud, my friends grabbed a dart gun and shot her. once the tranquilizer started to kick in, she fell forward and i was pinned. i was in a back brace for weeks, and still suffer with a bad back

just sayin' hyea:

 

[Bob Denman]

:agree: How many times does a coroner ever get to check the "Death by Falling Elephant" box? :dontknow:

And because it's a cute photo...

 

[ARtraveler]

the funny part, if there is one in this, is that he wasn't hunting the elephant. they didn't see the elephants. one rushed up and grabbed him with her trunk and lifted him up. the others shot the elephant to help hum, and when it fell dead, it landed on him. i had the same thing happen to me with a full figured sex starved woman once. i was screaming so loud, my friends grabbed a dart gun and shot her. once the tranquilizer started to kick in, she fell forward and i was pinned. i was in a back brace for weeks, and still suffer with a bad back

Can we have some of what you are taking? :roflblack::roflblack:

 

[Saluda]

What goes around comes around.

I'd say the same applies with compassion. Always thought there was a better bunch here.

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: You may be missing the point here...
The article was about a hunter being killed by the prey that he had just killed...
There just has to be a whole bunch of irony in that; don't you think so? :dontknow:

 

[Saluda]

Bob,
I don't believe I'm missing the point and I also don't believe he was actually hunting the animal that killed him (all beside the point).
I am referring to making a joke or referencing a meal out of a mans death. Don't like hunting ? Your right. Don't like trophy hunting, once again your right.
I felt it was cold and not reflective of the nice bunch that I thought hung out here.
Minority opinion ?, I can live with that and it won't be the first or last time.

 

[Bob Denman]

The question of whether or not he was hunting it is immaterial: he shot and killed it, and it returned the favor.
That pretty much defines irony; doesn't it? :dontknow:
If the rest of the thread derailed itself into a pro- and antii- hunting debate: that happens around here every once in a while, and you sort of have to expect it.

 

[Mazo EMS2]

I don't for a minute buy that they "stumbled upon a group of breeding elephants".....They had been on many other trips like it and the guides and the company knew darn well it was breeding season. Breeding season seems to be a popular time to hunt animals because humans know it makes it that much easier. This is a classic case of Karma. I do feel bad for the families involved, after all someone lost a father, son, and husband. BUT, they knew what they were doing. It was just dumb luck that the animal fell on him at the perfect time. I have zero respect for trophy hunting. The large animals of our world are being hunted for bragging rights and that to me sucks. I believe in eating what ya hunt.

 

[Saluda]

You're either ignoring my point or avoiding it.
Have a good time everyone at the expense of a dead person. Hope you all feel better.
Think I'll go read only for a while. Insensitive doesn't quite cover it.

 

[kep-up]

You're either ignoring my point or avoiding it.
Have a good time everyone at the expense of a dead person. Hope you all feel better.
Think I'll go read only for a while. Insensitive doesn't quite cover it.

Oh, Good Greif! Ye gotta' lighten up a bit. Our world is way too serious all'a time.

That being said, I eat what I kill, and have no time for so-called "trophy hunting". But if I see a trophy and a not trophy together, I'll take the trophy. So, there ye have it.........

 

[Bob Denman]

Oh, Good Greif! Ye gotta' lighten up a bit. Our world is way too serious all'a time.

That being said, I eat what I kill, and have no time for so-called "trophy hunting". But if I see a trophy and a not trophy together, I'll take the trophy. So, there ye have it.........

Since I lack the skill required for Trophy Hunting: I do my best to improve the herd by shooting the dumbest among them. It raises the collective intelligence of the entire herd! :thumbup:
(And none of them have fallen on me...yet!)

 

[cuznjohn]

i used to trophy hunt, but the guy who had all the bowling trophy's i shot, got really mad. so i stopped.

 

[Bob Denman]

 

[ruralgirl]

I'd say the same applies with compassion. Always thought there was a better bunch here.

I'm dripping with compassion .... for animals who are slaughtered for fun.

If you saw, e.g., the fawn who was standing next to the headless body of his mother who was poached on our farm by some "sportsman" who's now got the head of a doe on his wall, you'd maybe get where some of us are coming from. Worse, is to murder species whose numbers are perilously low, like the dead cats in the pic with this macho man.

 

[cuznjohn]

not for nothing, but i have never seen someone shoot a doe to mount the head. also in all the years i have hunted, i have never see anyone take a doe that had a fawn with her. i strongly suggest you call a game warden if you see something like that happen, and check if the guy is legal to take a doe. if he is, then he is just a stupid SOB

 

[ruralgirl]

not for nothing, but i have never seen someone shoot a doe to mount the head. also in all the years i have hunted, i have never see anyone take a doe that had a fawn with her. i strongly suggest you call a game warden if you see something like that happen, and check if the guy is legal to take a doe. if he is, then he is just a stupid SOB

I'm just assuming her head was all he wanted since he left the rest of her fully intact. I would've done more than call a game warden (who take hours or days to respond around here) if there was any way to figure out who the SOB had been. From the condition of the fawn, it'd been a day or two. We did get help for the little fellow, however. But the poachers here can be brazen and despicable. You wouldn't believe the stories, like shooting my friend's horse's leg nearly off when she asked him, firmly but politely, to get out of her pasture.

But, on a lighter note, anyone who'd like a FABULOUS read on elephants, would love the book, "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony (as well as his "The Last Rhinos"). He's the guy who, when he died, the wild elephants somehow knew and paraded from far and wide to visit his home.

 

[Bob Denman]

I'm dripping with compassion .... for animals who are slaughtered for fun.

If you saw, e.g., the fawn who was standing next to the headless body of his mother who was poached on our farm by some "sportsman" who's now got the head of a doe on his wall, you'd maybe get where some of us are coming from.

:lecturef_smilie: That was no Sportsman (Quotation marks or not...). That was a criminal and a thief. nojoke
It is through the efforts of Sportsmen, that game habitats are being rescued. Game Season and harvesting limits are in place, because Sportsman pay for the biologists to come up with the necessary data to determine what it takes to maintain the species within a given area.