An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.

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[–] 154 points 5 months ago (35 children)

If we're gonna pretend hunting is sport, you've gotta be prepared for the other team to show up and play.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    He was hunting antelopes, not elephants at least. But I'm still glad the elephants showed up.

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  • [–] 58 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    He had hunted elephants previously and had elephant trophies, so I have no sympathy for him.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (15 children)

    If we're going to pretend it's a sport, let both sides be humans.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wish granted: millionaires now hunt us for sport.

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    [–] 49 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago

    Just when you think the world is all injustice and pain, you get a feel good story like this one.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago

    He died the same way he lived: like an asshole.

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    Thank you elephants!

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Based elephants. Absolutely majestic animals.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    And nothing of value was lost.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Good, happy for the elephants

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    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"

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Trample/Eat the Fucking Rich.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, what a shame. Anyways,

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I almost felt like I was crushing him a bit myself while reading that. Felt good.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Big gray leopards.

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    More like elephants stepped on my face, am I right?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Fate loves irony

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Yaaaaayyyyyy!!

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