Millionaire big game hunter gored to death in ambush by "Black Death" buffalo
The reason behind the buffalo's attack on the trackers remains unclear. Reports indicate it became hostile before charging down the 52 year old
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/31615762
womp womp
Whenever I read about these hunters getting killed there is always this element in the reporting that it was a tragedy. It wasn't. It was a glorious victory. Two entered a death match (one unwilling) and one survived. The buffalo defied odds heavily stacked against it and won. The buffalo didn't ask to be the target of a wanker with a gun who likes killing things for fun. The wanker should also acknowledge that they're are risks in playing death games. Sorry dude you lost. Buffalo won. Buffalo should get to live like a king as its prize.
Guns are for punks. Fight with your hands or GTFO.
(I'd PPV that all day. It's like watching parkour YouTubes, just screaming and damage everywhere.)
Human hands are shit compared to what everything else has, at least allow them to use our oldest and arguably best tool. Spear hunting alone still carries a shit tonne of risk unless you are going after fish and even then watch your foot. Id watch one of this dipshits fumble with a spear for 4 minutes before getting ripped apart, it'd be like mixing slapstick with gladiatorial games.
As long as they don’t go ill the animal later anyway. Big cats that kill peoples seem to get table down and killed in most stories I hear.
Good thing humans aren't known to be vengeful... I hope that buffalo is like 2 countries over by now with a new identity drinking a mai tai.
Often the individual animals preying on humans have some sort of health problem or something along the lines, making them desperate and thus continuously dangerous - so it is easy to pretend we don't do it for vengeance too. There's also the weird still lingering belief that once an animal has tasted human blood they'll want more. Humans like to believe we're not controlled by instinct and make up explanations for why not, but our actions have more truth than our words
Asher was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo
Yeah, I'm sure it was unprovoked by the car full of people following it for hours.
Oh no! Is the buffalo ok?
He's traumatized from the hostility and will have PTSD. But he did the right thing.
The reason behind the buffalo's attack on the trackers remains unclear. Reports indicate it became hostile before charging down the 52 year old.
God sending Harambe back for one last job.
Also said it was going 35mph when it hit him. Nice.
TheBullWins
Grizzly bears can do 35 mph too, but they're less "hit by a truck" than "hit by a wood chipper".
Luigi has found a mount
Last I heard Luigi is en route to be somebody's mount.
And nothing of value was lost.
At least until they revenge hunt the animal for defending itself.
“Locals shocked that megafauna are megafauna and humans are not invincible just because they have guns.”
In South Africa too. Like, do they not get that wild animals don’t play by human rules? It’s bigger than you. You took that risk.
I carry in the woods every time I'm out. Wouldn't want to try my luck against a bear. Especially don't like my odds against a panther.
Well yeah. But you're not using something scoped; more boomsticky for the boonies, I'd say.
Oh No! A millionaire trophy hunter was brutally mauled to death by a vicious beast? This is a terrible tragedy :( Seriously, what could be more important than the life of a complete and utter scumbag?
I wonder how many innocent children starved and were murdered by the IDF today?
Doesn't matter- didn't you hear? A rich white man was killed!
This is why it naked the news att all.. it's engagement. Just leave ragebait alone
This is why it naked the news att all
If it had naked the news I probably wouldn't mind so much. ;)
The sad fact is, this isn't really ragebait. The media has always treated the ruling class as more important than us plebians. For much of history- the public kind of agreed with them about that and no one raged about it. It's only fairly recently that it's become slightly more mainstream for people to be class conscious (in the last 100 years at least). I'm sure IrishstarDOTcom just thought this was a newsworthy death.
This warms my heart ❤️🥰
That buffalo deserves that millionaire's body as trophy.
The reason behind the buffalo's attack on the trackers remains unclear.
"Why are you attacking me I'm just trying to hunt you"
Man minding his own bussiness stalking an animal to kill it, inexplicably attacked by animal he was plotting to kill.
Rest in piss 👋
I think this is more "fuck around and find out" than "leopards ate my face".
Unless the guy lobbied to make what he did legal, and I don't think he did, I agree with you.
What a traumatic experience for the buffalo, I hope it's ok.
Nothing of value was lost.
There should be a photo of the buffalo posing with his body, like all those pics of him posing with his kills.
cute
I am sure this would enrage a lot of people. I am in.
Buffalo ate my face.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ate my face.
Tragic.
So what's everyone having for dinner?
Half a pound of camembert so far.
..... it was a long day.
The food of gods
Filét American Millionaire
Homemade burger and (oven) fries.
I’d really like something rich in flavour
Hunter stew.
While trophy hunting is fucked up, I'd like to remind people that hunting as done by regular people and not this millionaire bozo is a critical aspect of conservation.
Hunting keeps deer and elk from overpopulating and stressing the habitats of other wild life. It is the only thing that keeps prion diseases in these populations in check. Hunters are a necessity because humans have displaced and culled apex predators who played the same role.
As someone who tries to limit their own meat intake, I'd be all for an increased social trend of eating venison or kangaroo, especially if regional hunters can get them into supply chains going elsewhere. It's not a practice that could go on for decades, but we could fulfill a need to limit populations, give people a chance for sport outdoors, while also providing a source of meat that's not horrifically industrialized.
Oh boy! My favorite topic.
Disclaimer: I have no horse in this race, I don't hunt or care to start hunting and if recreational hunting is more detrimental to sustained ecosystems than other tactics then it should be replaced, I'm more concerned with using good, reliable information to form conclusions
The first and third link doesn't appear to link to any citations or data to support it's claims, so I think it's fair to treat it as an option piece but I think we should have better standards when making decisions that can affect our stewardship of the world around us
The second is quite long but from what I can gather it is the best of the 4 in that it is based on a survey of peer reviewed research and makes a good thorough case against a subset of recreational hunting, specifically trophy hunting, as unethical.
The last link says overabundance is not a scientific term used in the scientific literature, but I can clearly see it is in many widely cited research papers (two usages, one in linguistics and one in biology)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=overabundant
And in the additional resources section there's a few broken links and the closest I can find to a peer review article is a letter to the editor of a journal, not identified as a peer reviewed article and without public access to the methodology if it contains one
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304380005003339
You didn't even read paper that you linked.
The only credible source that is well cited is the paper about the Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods, and it explicitly states that recreational hunting (aka trophy hunting) is NOT subsistence or commercial hunting.
This paper's focus is on evaluating the dubious claims about conservation that recreational hunters uses to justify themselves. It is criticizing the same that I was criticizing, which is that there is no justifiable excuse for trophy hunting.
You linked a bunch of random vegan sites, so I assume you're vegan. Look, I get it. Eating and killing animals is fucked up. But you're barking up the wrong tree here. Subsistence hunters, which most deer hunters are, are causing far less animal suffering than the vast majority of people who eat factory farmed animals.
I'm not going to pretend I'm vegan because I'm not, but I have cut down meat consumption by 75%. If you want to make a real difference, you'll find that telling everyone to eat 10% less meat is far easier than telling 10% of the world to become vegan. If you actually give a shit about animals, do what works, not what feels good to yourself. Remember that humans grow up in an environment that culturally enforced and prizes meat consumption. Remember that not everywhere and everyone has good access to vegan alternatives.
I live in a country (not US) that has been isolated from many countries for millions of years and had many invasive species introduced by humans in the past few hundred.
These invasive species have devastated local/native wildlife and grown to ridiculous levels. If humans did nothing to stop them, including hunting them, they would completely take over and extinct many more species than they already have, reducing diversity.
Not stopping them, again which includes hunting and trapping, would be amoral and worse for the planet
Lol fair's fair, pretty sure he was fixing to kill a buffalo
RIP Bozo
Hot take, I'll offer an alternative perspective. Obviously, poaching is one of the most disgusting crimes. Sourcing animal parts for folk remedies is reprehensible.
Responsibly managed hunting generates a ton of money, some of which which gets invested into the local community and into conservation efforts.
The key word here is responsible. If a land manager shared wealth in an equitable fashion with the locals, and demonstrates careful management of animal herds by close monitoring of populations, that's responsibility. I wouldn't want to hunt on lands owned by, say, a literal nazi in South Africa. But, unfortunately, as long as we live under capitalism, I have a hard time imagining a different way to encourage the world to preserve our natural resources.
I don't disagree but I also think it's fair game for the hunted to win. That should be part of the point of big game hunting, it's fucking dangerous and tbh it's a little satisfying as a poor when the buffalo beats the millionaire in a battle to the death the millionaire started
I honestly thought it was, I guess I can still have too high expectations of people. If they're not even seeking the adrenaline rush from the danger, it's like extra mega ultra omega level of pathetic instead of just extremely pathetic
The need for managed culls is partially driven by the displacement of predators and other disruption from human activity but ok
True in many cases but not all, and the people managing these populations are almost never directly responsible for the problem. For example the species I now help manage in my country were introduced generations before my birth. Same for the overwhelming majority of the land clearing, it was done before even my parents existed.
I can't change history, but I can take some responsibility for mitigating the damage of those who came before me.
It's less about managed culls and more about raising funds for conservation.
Whole point of capitalism is breaking the game to get ahead.
No. Actually, if you read Adams, it should be a pretty just system, the problem being people I that system, without checks and balances.
People, not systems, are the problem.
A new system that allows entrepreneurship, while protecting those who just want to go and clock-in, allows private property, but prevents accumulation and speculation, etc... But designed from the ground up to prevent major deviations, is in order.
Pussy, ambushing a lone buffalo while armed with a big game gun!
Run the bulls in Pamplona, like real men do.
People, not systems, are the problem.
That's like saying the players don't suck for losing, it's the ref and the rules of the game.
Human nature is what it is. We need our political and economic systems to rein it in and channel it towards good*.
But designed from the ground up to prevent major deviations, is in order.
Yes.
The reason behind the buffalo's attack on the trackers remains unclear>
Well, just a wild guess, but "These creatures are shooting at me and want to kill me" sounds like a pretty good reason.
His ex-partner and teenage daughter have been notified of his death.
I parsed that sentence wrong and the next paragraph didn't help me correct it.
A close friend of the father revealed: "He spent every spare moment he could with Savannah and shared his life with her. Nobody could love a daughter more than he did...
I was in full WTF mode for a second there.
Also can someone explain to me what a luxury ranch is? Cause I just imagine it's a fucked up modern day plantation with extra steps.
A luxury ranch is usually a place where you pay a lot of money to go hunt, and stay in very nice hotel like accommodations. Often they are high fenced properties where they are breeding deer to have extremely large abnormal antlers also known as "non-typicals" a hunter might pay $10-100k to pick one from a catalog and be plopped into a blind with a guide to shoot said deer.
He died doing something he loved: being eviscerated by black death thousands of miles away from the few people that pretended to love him in order to gain access to his money.
Oh well....
If they wanna call it a “sport” they have to let both sides win and lose.
This should be posted in "uplifting."
Edit: it was!
The Hunt is about one thing, survival. And only one of you gets to claim it.
You gotta do some pretty stupid stuff to get killed by a deer imo.
Yeah but Deer can also cause other ecological problems if left uncontrolled. Like, no, they're not likely to gore you except for in specific seasons, but they can hurt you in other ways.
Rest in piss, bozo.
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Good. I hope the buffalo is okay.
Luigi showed how it's done. And a buffelo is the one to step in his footsteps? All hail this buffelo, shame on the test.
#TeamOrca and #TeamBuffalo
These "hunters" can eat shit.
And team Bee for that one the other day
Luigi Buffalo!
Good.
To play the devil's advocate; Some of these hunts are purposeful culling for heard health. Plus, African nations make a few bucks. Also, guns aren't magic kill switches. I'd be scared shitless if even a little black bear was charging me, no matter which pistol or shotgun I was carrying.
OTOH, sounds like this guy wanted the challenge. Meh. Ya win some ya lose some. 😆
Very unlikely for a black bear to charge a person unless it had been fed by humans in the past. Often they get so startled at the sight of us that they take off running and climb a tree.
They're pretty common in human areas where I live, but not especially interested in us. They've got bear things to do.
I love a happy ending
While I appreciate the sentiment, the man in question was a hunter in favor of the environment rather than some MAGA fuckhead who loves shooting rounds at animals to prove his manhood
Small comfort to the buffalo.
Haha! Hunter became the hunted and got what he deserves. Hunting for sport is so lame. Go fly a kite!
In my country hunters try to avoid overpopulation of species (which older generations of hunters caused by getting rid of the local Wolf population), not murdering for fun.
Also, many of the big game hunts in Africa and such target older males that aren't procreating, but are preventing younger males from doing so, and the large fees they charge go to conservation efforts.
Hunters over here oppose the reintroduction of new wolf populations and want to shoot them all dead so fuck them.
Thoughts and prayers
Hum, how to properly respond..... Lulz
Not sure if this is material for !TheBullWins@lemm.ee
Has anyone watched Murderbot yet? It's really good.
Thoughts and prayers
Excellent. That’s one for us today.
You reap what you sow
Oh no how unfortunate.
He probably had a tag for just that exact individual. Odds are it was issued because that individual was a hazard to the local area and or other members of the species. I used to hate big game trophy hunting but I have come to understand it is much more complicated and beneficial than the headlines lead people to believe.
He probably paid an arm and a leg for that tag which was going to fund conservation and the meat was going to feed the village.
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I request gold. Thank you for your attention to this matter. /s
Bro, we're just glad a billionaire is dead. The irony of the hunter ended up dead by his prey is just icing on the cake, it wouldn't matter if the hunter was a billionaire or not. The justification behind the hunt is irrelevant.
Millionaire* but that doesn't really change anything.
I have no water to give for the dead here and I appreciate a fair fight.
But the whole big game issue is way more of a public good than most people realize.
He probably had a tag for just that exact individual. Odds are it was issued because that individual was a hazard to the local area and or other members of the species.
Good comment but how do you know the buffalo is a he?
Almost all of the tags issues are disruptive males so statistically it was a safe bet.
But after checking I see that the DailyMail is stating it was a male.
