The Giraffe Picture

[sp1814]

Can anyone help me understand why someone would do this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/15/ricky-gervais-blasts-hunter-rebecca-francis-posed-grinning-dying-giraffe_n_7070512.html

I mean, it's not as if giraffe numbers need to be kept down, or there's a massive market for giraffe-skin trousers.

So..why?

At least with poaching there's a reason (ecomonics - sale of fur, rhino horns, ivory etc).

But giraffes???

[-Talbot-]

Can anyone help me understand why someone would do this?


I doubt it.

But have you read her full statement?
She's quite full of herself, bless her.

[melv16]

It baffles me as well, sp. Why would someone want to shoot such a lovely animal for sport....unless they get their rocks-off by killing animals?

[paul1763]

i honestly don't think a normal sane person can understand themselves let alone help you understand.even if there could ever have been a justifiable reason for it i cant believe someone could be so stupid to share that photo

[chaptazbru2]

I wish someone would shoot her and photograph her dying. Mindless moron !

[anotheoldgit]

/// At least with poaching there's a reason (ecomonics - sale of fur, rhino horns, ivory etc). ///

Sounds as if you show more support for those scum of the planet poachers who are killing on such a scale that certain African animals are almost extinct.

Although I don't like to see any animals being killed, some have to be for food or for humane reasons, as in this case apparently.

[rockyracoon]

I keep trying to compose a response to this, but I can't. May karma bite her on the behind.

[naomi24]

In some areas of Africa giraffe are farmed for food - just as cattle are here - and very tasty it is too. However, this is sickening - and so is she.

[-Talbot-]

Sounds as if you show more support for those scum of the planet poachers who are killing on such a scale that certain African animals are almost extinct.


How did you come to that conclusion, AOG?

[mikey4444]

The answer is simple SP. She is American and stupid.

[Baldric]

Allegedly (and I'm not defending her) he had been kicked out of the herd by a younger male, was all alone, was well past his breeding years and would have died soon anyway!

I would advise any single mature males living near her to move asap!

[andy-hughes]

Her rationale is that the giraffe was going to die soon anyway, and she prevented a lingering slow death, and provided the local populace with meat and the means to make artefacts, I assume for sale.

I think hunters hunt because they can - they have a very different mind set from most people, and they view animals very differently.

This approach has its paralells in farmers and country people who regard animals as either working tools, or provision of profit and an income.

It's impossible for one to inhabit the mind of the other, so looking for a rational explanation is never going to work.

[naomi24]

Mikey, can't see the correlation. Every nationality has its share of stupid people. The fact that she’s American is irrelevant.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, //I think hunters hunt because they can - they have a very different mind set from most people, and they view animals very differently.

This approach has its paralells in farmers and country people who regard animals as either working tools, or provision of profit and an income.//

Hunters hunt because they can – farmers farm for a reason. No parallel there.

[237SJ]

"This approach has it`s parallels in farmers and country people..." That`s insulting.

[ukanonymous]

No worse than what is happening across slaughter houses though out the UK. Why get so hung up on an animal that has been killed purely because it is a little more rare and aesthetically pleasing? I consider the condemning of this action hypocrisy and the people who do so just as bad as the culprit who committed it.

[ummmm]

Oh...do they lie down next to dying animals and take pics in UK slaughter houses?

[mikey4444]

Far from it Naomi. Millions of Americans hunt every year. They shoot anything that moves, as andy has said...because they can. They wiped out the worlds supply of Passenger Pigeons in just over 100 years. They are gun crazy as can be seen from the 10,000's of deaths and injuries due to hunting every year, not to mention all the innocent little children, shot in their classrooms.

I would mind betting that this giraffe killing would barely have mentioned a word in the US media, if Gervais hadn't stepped in.

[Bazile]

//..Sounds as if you show more support for those scum of the planet poachers who are killing on such a scale that certain African animals are almost extinct. //

That's twice ( that i have noticed ) today that you have posed a question made a comment ; which indicates that you have not understood something someone has said or a news story

[naomi24]

Mikey, millions of idiots all over the world hunt for no reason other than they enjoy it - or hadn't you noticed?

[ToraToraTora]

Sp me old china, I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would vote Labour and you hit me wit this one! No, I really cannot comprehend the mindset of someone killing animals for some perverted "pleasure".