He's rightfully a scapegoat, and with any luck this will have a profound effect on other people considering such pastimes
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RompaStompa Stick it up your jumper, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 4:56,
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It's the perfect storm of animal cruelty and dental fear.
Hopefully, people would also start supporting wildlife conservation and the fight against poaching in Africa beyond posting comments.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 7:51,
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Or they might realise next time their dentist is suggesting some expensive treatment
That he's only after a deposit on a 50 grand holiday/making a payment on his Ferrari/fuelling his motor yacht for the weekend.
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 7:58,
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That doesn't sound like a popular social media campaign.
Can you at least include kittens?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 8:11,
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How about Ariana Grande licking rhino poo?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 8:23,
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Whats an "Ariana Grande"?
Some sort of hipster coffee?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 8:30,
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No, it's a person
according to TMZ
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 8:36,
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What TMZ?
Some sort of noxious industrial solvent?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 8:47,
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Twitter should add a feature where
you are not allowed to join in a twitstorm unless you have given a relavent charity donation. They'd make about £50.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 11:42,
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This has nothing to do with poaching.
It was to do with locals abusing their hunting licenses and luring an animal off a protected reserve into a hunting reserve. Though using a bow on anything bigger than a small deer is clearly not going to kill it, and constitutes cruelty.
Truth is, the reserves with various, limited, hunting licenses actually preserve more natural habitat than any of the protected nature reserves, and it's all paid for by trigger-happy wankers like him. Who combined, chip in far more cash than any charity tin-rattling. The reality of effective conservation is not all one big fluffy-bunny love-in as the middle-classes would like to believe.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 12:06,
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No, this was not part of the wave of poaching that currently decimates rhino and elephant populations
and in some areas in Africa carefully regulated hunting might be the only significant source of funding to keep parks going.
But the strong reaction in this case shows that people do care about wildlife in Africa. It may be a good idea to remind them that conservation needs support year round.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 13:01,
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Why did you delete your QotW post?
Poor show.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 11:22,
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Louis Theroux gone done this
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/walter-palmer-killed-cecil-the-lion-with-a-bow-to-show-off--and-now-hes-discovering-what-its-like-to-be-hunted-10424613.html
Quite a good read.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 30 Jul 2015, 11:34,
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