Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari | News World | Metro News
Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.
Good. Fuck trophy hunters. Deserved exactly what he got.
Exactly my sentiment.
Asher was fatally injured, in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo.
Uh, sure it was "unprovoked". Dude was just out there minding his own business and out of nowhere the Buffalo jumped out of bushes and attacked him.
I think it only fair that as the victor in the fight, the Buffalo should inherit this guy's millions.
also his head framed as a trophy
Is the bull okay?
Where's the photo of him being propped up to face the camera with a stick?
Bull's family hasn't been interviewed yet.
Hunting animals for trophies and prestige is straight-up fuckery and should be banned everywhere.
Fuck trophy hunters.
Sorry you lost your dad.
A lot of those hunts are actually part of conservation efforts to cull older males who are stopping the younger ones from mating, and the money goes towards conservation.
Looks like the older male got culled in this case lmao
He could have donated a million dollars to conservation and hired a local conservation officer perform the culling. Instead he acted out his disgusting instinct to murder animals for fun (not for food and not for conservation).
Local hunters culling deer is fine. It needs to happen since humans have removed predators. People traveling to kill animals is them going out of their way to kill beautiful things for fun.
It's not that the effect can't be good when properly researched and regulated. It's that I've simply got no respect nor sympathy for anyone who would find trophy hunting to be a fun activity worth paying for. Fuck 'em. If they cared about conservation, they could donate money to that effort. They want to kill animals for sport, that's their primary motivation.
Sooo many people don't know this
opened this thread to see this meme….so pleased to find it at the top.
Unprovoked
Unprovoked?! The guy was about to kill the buffalo. That was self defense.
Darwinism works all ways. If we kill the harmless animals, we're directly breeding more aggressive ones that will attack "unprovoked" because that's what saved their lives.
That may be the case, but African Buffalo are like one of the most dangerous animals to humans on the planet. They have long had the nickname of "Black Death" and "Widowmaker" by the locals because they are so aggressive. The bachelor buffalo (older males that don't travel with a herd anymore) are known to be the most dangerous. From the description that's what it sounds like they were tracking. So one of those dudes killing the shit out of someone isn't exactly uncommon even historically.
Some cracker ass rich dude hunting them and then being killed by one is kind of fucking hilarious. Can you imagine this dipshit thinking that a buffalo wouldn't trample the shit out of him cause his bank account had a bunch of 0's? I just imagine him turning around as he's being charged at and yelling, "You can't do this I have money!"
Finally some good news in this dystopian fucked up world.
Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, in the 50,000-acre Bambisana concession on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.
I don't know why, but j really enjoyed all the numbers in this article. The speed that the buffalo was going when it smashed into him is a detail that would be left out of most articles. But knowing that it was going 35mph makes it very impressive.
was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death
Man this descriptive title for the Bull makes me see why Monster Hunter and Xenoblade appeal to so many. We have real life tyrant animals that have fucking bounties on their heads and names like "Black Death" that have killed even the best travelers. Video games are real 🥹
Exactly. We get to play those games without the real world ecological catastrophe that is big game hunting.
I'm upset this very british tabloid didn't convert the weight to stone.
The bull weighs about 205 stone, btw.
Wow, that's a whole lotta bull.
Well someone watched Monty python and the holy grail and figured they needed the mean speed of some swallow or something.
Oh no.
Anyway.
and nothing of value was lost
There are a lot oh scummy people, but trophy hunters are one of the worst. Traveling around the word just to kill rare and endangered animals, and brag about it. Those monsters deserve to lose out on existence.
Good News!
Yes it's nice to finally have a good news day for once
This is so sad. Why couldn’t this have happened sooner?
Trophy hunting is, without question, one of the most vile, pathetic displays of small-minded vanity a man can engage in.
Picture him in his trophy room, basking in his own imagined glory, mentally masturbating himself over the senseless killing of a completely innocent creature. It is revolting
the justification is that they at least funnel money into conservation.
but that's like saying that if for every child raped in Epstein island he would have donated enough to save 2 children in a poor country then that island was OK.
Picture him in his trophy room, basking in his own imagined glory, mentally masturbating himself over the senseless killing of a completely innocent creature.
Nah, I'm good.
I understand ☹️
Good. More.
I hope it hurt a lot. Imagine the pain he's caused so many animals.
I love poetic justice
Uplifting news.
Good. Love to see it. 10/10 do it again.
Uplifting news to start my day!
When the leopards are otherwise occupied, the bulls take up the slack!
Luigi bull
Survival of the fittest.
I guess it's... puts on sunglasses A bull market YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH
The only truly sad thing about this, is that a lot of hunters are going to sign up to go there to kill that bull.
Literally got his face eaten
LOL
Lmfao
So.... what's for lunch today?
If they wanna call it a “sport” then they need to have both sides win and lose equally.
Hopefully it was slow and lasted a few hours.
Let me guess, the “found” a “ghost gun” in the bull’s backpack?
Mofo got luigi'd
Oh, what a shame! If anyone needs me I'll be having a cry into my champagne on my chaise lounge.
HAHAHAHAHA
Karma is a removed.
As unlikable as this fellow may be, hunters are generally some of the strongest advocates for environmental protection.
They generally aren't completely stupid and they know that their hobby depends on a thriving ecosystem so they tend to take action to preserve them.
Good news
Can we get an ai of the bull holding up the dead guys body?
With head, corpse, body, etc "The system detected potentially unsafe content. Please try again or adjust the prompt."
So adjust I did: with skull
That’s just cute.
Trophies wouldn't mean a damn thing if this didn't happen now and then.
They still don't, but they wouldn't.
Can’t win every time and this time he differently didn’t 🤷♂️
Fuck yes.
Good.
Ha!
Shit, not that one...
In other news, I feel way better about the way I look at 55 compared to that really rich guy at 52.
before or after the buffalo event?
I'll let you know after my MRI