# Shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851 "2015-04-16T18:17:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why_Bother)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/1 "2015-04-16T18:17:37Z")
So, a woman named Rebecca Francis shot and killed a giraffe. She then posed for a picture beside the body. This picture somehow found its way to full-time comedian and part-time judgemental dickhead Ricky Gervais who retweeted it with the caption: _“What must have happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling?”_ You can read more about it here: > **[Huntress becomes 'the hunted' after barrage of death threats over kill selfies](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/female-huntress-rebecca-francis-receives-barrage-of-death-threats-over-hunting-images-10175733.html)** > > Comedian Ricky Gervais shared a picture of Francis with a dead giraffe You can also read Ms. Francis’ completely reasonable response wherein she explains that the giraffe was both at the end of its life anyway and was subsequently used to feed local people, here: > **[The excuse smiling huntress lambasted by Ricky Gervais gave for murdering a...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rebecca-francis-the-giraffe-hunter-lambasted-by-ricky-gervais-says-she-does-not-regret-killing-animal-for-one-second-10181480.html)** > > 'I am grateful to be a part of something so good,' she added Ms Francis is now having the shit doxxed out of her, and, because our society is awful, is also having to deal with the nowadays obligatory torrent of death threats. Now, there are so many things I hate about this that I’m genuinely not sure where to start. Let’s start with Twitter. I fucking hate Twitter. Twitter is the shittiest communications medium ever devised by man. It’s fine for certain things, like sharing baby pictures, or cat pictures, or plotting the overthrow the Egyptian government. But, because Twitter is internet-based, and the internet is full of deadbrained fucknuts, more and more it’s being used to debate real shit. Get it straight: If you have a thought, any thought, about any complex social or political issue that can be concisely summarised in 140 characters or fewer including spaces then it’s probably not a thought worth sharing. Keep that shit to yourself. You know what arguing on Twitter is? Arguing on Twitter is two guys on trampolines yelling at each other over a fence. Shut the fuck up. I also hate the whole phenomenon of online shaming. I hate it for two reasons. Reason 1: Often, the punishment is grossly disproportionate to the “crime”. By now, we’ve all probably heard the story of Justine Sacco, the PR woman who flew to South Africa having tweeted an admittedly racially insensitive joke before take-off, only to land eleven hours later to find that she was internet enemy number 1. and that she’d been fired. The joke itself, in my humble opinion, wasn’t even that controversial. It was the kind of joke Sarah Silverman makes all the time. Sacco’s mistake was assuming that people would get that she was being tongue-in-cheek. Unfortunately, they didn’t get it. Some of them, I’m sure, _deliberately_ didn’t get it. And when her tweet was blasted all over the world by Gawker editor and professional cunt Sam Biddle, the number of self-righteous pricks eager to drop trou and take a giant dump on this woman over absolutely fuck all increased exponentially. End result: Fired, death threats, you know the drill. It’s the same shit Rebecca Francis is dealing with right now, although thankfully she hasn’t been fired…yet. (Interesting sidebar: Biddle actually met with Sacco a few years later and learned that, while she was back to work, it had taken her a good couple of years for her to put her life back together again. Sacco, remarkably, doesn’t seem to hold a grudge, and Biddle apologised. Well done, Justine. Fuck you, Sam.) This brings me to the second reason I hate online shaming. Most of the people who do it only do it because they’re nasty, sanctimonious dicks. They want the thrill of hurting a stranger without the threat of repercussions (that’s the nasty bit) while advertising to the world just how bloody sensitive they are (that’s the sanctimony). Does that sound like a bit of a paradox? Well, it is. But these fucking keyboard Gestapo don’t care. They’re caught in the moment, like schoolyard bullies playing ‘keep away’ with a weedy kid’s pencil case. Getting back to the point, this particular feeding frenzy is one of the vilest I’ve ever seen. To appreciate just why this is, here’s a few facts: [ul] [li] Giraffes are not an endangered species.[/li][li] People do actually eat giraffes. [/li][li] The particular giraffe in question was, after being killed, butchered for its meat. It wasn’t wasted, in other words.[/ul][/li] Now, why are these facts important? Well, the first fact is important because people are stupid. They assume that if an animal is rare _where they live_, it must be rare full-stop. If you don’t believe that there are people out there who think this, just read the comments on any one of the hundreds of articles about this non-story currently clogging up the internet. Giraffes are not rare animals. The second two facts are important because they really get to the nub of why this bullshit has gotten so deeply under my skin. I can understand if a vegetarian or a vegan was upset by this story. I may not _agree_, but I can understand. By the standards that they live by, they have a legitimate beef (Ho-ho!). Obviously, this doesn’t excuse any vegans or vegetarians who may have made death threats. Those people are scum. But I can understand why they might be upset. I can’t understand why they’d be more upset by the death of this giraffe than by, say, the death of a Texas Longhorn, but still, I get why they might be upset. Ricky Gervais is not a vegetarian. He eats meat. I know he eats meat because I’ve listened to his podcasts and he’s said so. He’s also a fat bastard, which means he’s probably packed away a few McDonalds in his time. McDonalds, of course, are renowned for not giving a fuck about the animals they kill. Also, while I can’t point to any one specific person on this contemptible bandwagon and say “He eats meat” or “She’s a vegetarian”, the law of averages alone dictates that a fair number of these happy-go-lucky shamers are also happy-go-lucky carnivores as well. If you eat meat, shut the fuck up! You have no right to complain about this. The fate the animals on your table endure is a thousand times crueller than that which befell this giraffe. Take chickens, for example. This is a picture of a battery chicken farm: [![](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2011/8/31/1314809207695/battery-hens-in-a-chicken-007.jpg) ](http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2011/8/31/1314809207695/battery-hens-in-a-chicken-007.jpg) Before being caged, the chickens are typically put through a painful process called ‘debeaking’. This means that their beaks are shortened. Then they’re shoved in tiny cages where they don’t have room to spread their wings. They develop osteoporosis, their feathers fall out from stress, and they’re pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones so that the farmers can salvage every last scrap of meat from their desiccated bones. In the mean time, they amuse themselves by going mad and literally eating each other. If you eat non-freerange chicken (hint: if you eat KFC you’re eating non-freerange chicken) then you are subsidising this. If you’re also champing at the bit to shame Ms Francis then you’re a preposterous hypocrite and you should shut your fucking hole. Here’s a picture of an intensive pig farm: [http://tinyurl.com/pj8fld9](http://tinyurl.com/pj8fld9) Similar fucking story. Suffering animals with no room to move marking time in the seventh circle of pig-hell until they’re slaughtered, butchered, and packed off to Walmart. I could go on, but I trust the point is made. Most meat eaters inflict far, far more cruelty on animals than Rebecca Francis could do if she lived to be a thousand\*. Ricky Gervais is one of those people. Shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais. [sub]\*A small caveat. If you buy your meat free-range and/or hunt your own meat then that’s different. Those options are considerably more humane, particularly hunting. Also, for the record, I’m not a hunter or a vegetarian. I’m also not delving into this latest shame-a-palooza to ruin a woman’s life and put her in fear for her safety over fuck all.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/2 "2015-04-16T18:41:05Z")
Very long post. I just got to this part: > [@](#): > > - > > What must have happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling?"\* And pretty much agreed with it. I think anyone who hunts and kills a Giraffe for no purpose other than “fun” is an asshole. I don’t particularly care how you want to justify it, or how many animals “suffer” in other places. That’s my opinion. It seems it’s also Ricky Gervais’ opinion. Tough shit for you. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/3 "2015-04-16T18:41:16Z")
Well, you make a good point about most of those who eat meat (full disclosure: I eat meat. But I’ve never been a _huge_ eater of meat and I’ve tried to cut back even more, recently). I’d seen that photo of that woman lying, smiling, next to the giraffe she claims to have killed. I wasn’t happy about it but now that you mention that that giraffe was later butchered it doesn’t _seem_ so bad. Still, I have a question: “How did that woman _know_ that the giraffe was near the end of its life before she finished taking it?” ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/4 "2015-04-16T18:48:02Z")
Internet bullies are internet bullies. They’re very brave when they know that their victim doesn’t know who they are. Other internet assholes will pile on, knowing they can be mean, little bassturds without being held personally responsible for being assholes. Ricky Gervais is just another internet bully asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/5 "2015-04-16T18:48:52Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#): > > If you eat meat, shut the fuck up! You have no right to complain about this. The fate the animals on your table endure is a thousand times crueller than that which befell this giraffe. Wait, what? There’s a pretty big fucking difference between eating meat and being happy about animals dying. Nobody is smiling and snapping selfies next to animals as they’re led into the slaughter house. Or if they are, they’re also some twisted sickos. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/6 "2015-04-16T18:50:22Z")
Ricky Gervais acts pretty much the same way in person as he does online. That is not to say I approve or disapprove of his behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/7 "2015-04-16T18:51:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Very long post. > > I just got to this part: > And pretty much agreed with it. I think anyone who hunts and kills a Giraffe for no purpose other than “fun” is an asshole. I don’t particularly care how you want to justify it, or how many animals “suffer” in other places. > > That’s my opinion. It seems it’s also Ricky Gervais’ opinion. Tough shit for you. I have to agree. Hunting for sport is for assholes. I can cut some slack for those who eat what they kill. Cycle of life and all that, fellow carnivores and what not. But those who hunt and kill for the thrill and trophy, fuck off and die. > [@](#): > > And I nodded and I said that was interesting while I was thinking about what a load of crap it was. Hunting was part of Indian culture. It was food and it was clothes and it was shelter. They sang and danced and offered prayers to the gods for a successful hunt so that they could survive just one more unimaginably brutal winter. The things they had to kill held the highest place of respect for them, and to kill for fun was a sin. And they knew the gods wouldn’t be so generous next time. What we did wasn’t food and it wasn’t shelter and it sure wasn’t sports! It was just mean! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/8 "2015-04-16T18:53:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Ricky Gervais … retweeted it with the caption: “What must have happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling?” > > … > > You can also read Ms. Francis’ completely reasonable response wherein she explains that the giraffe was both at the end of its life anyway and was subsequently used to feed local people, here: Can’t both things be true? It’s reasonable to kill for meat, but \*enjoying \*killing it, and wanting your smiling picture taken next to it dead, is kind of a creepy move, for me. It seems inescapable to me that killing it was a thrill for her. And not, “thanks to God, I am feeding 25 people!” but “I just watched a giraffe crumple and die, and I did that!” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why_Bother)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/9 "2015-04-16T18:57:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Very long post. > > I just got to this part: > And pretty much agreed with it. I think anyone who hunts and kills a Giraffe for no purpose other than “fun” is an asshole. I don’t particularly care how you want to justify it, or how many animals “suffer” in other places. > > That’s my opinion. It seems it’s also Ricky Gervais’ opinion. Tough shit for you. Not really. I don’t much give a fuck about your opinion. I don’t even care about Gervais’ opinion per se, just the consequences of his chosen mode of expressing it. How about next time you just say TL:DR and shut the fuck up? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/10 "2015-04-16T18:57:35Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Very long post. > > I just got to this part: > And pretty much agreed with it. I think anyone who hunts and kills a Giraffe for no purpose other than “fun” is an asshole. I don’t particularly care how you want to justify it, or how many animals “suffer” in other places. > > That’s my opinion. It seems it’s also Ricky Gervais’ opinion. Tough shit for you. I disagree with you. I am not a hunter and am repulsed by the idea; I just could never pull the trigger. Hell, I won’t even fish as I cannot bear to see the fish suffer and can’t bring myself to kill it. That said, I see nothing morally wrong with hunting if it is done in a capable (i.e. without causing undue suffering to the animal) and moral manner. If the giraffe has fulfilled it evolutionary duty, is not necessary for the strength of the herd, and if the gain brought to the herd and the local economy (many times the same thing) by offering the animal for a hunt, I am all for it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/11 "2015-04-16T19:00:03Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#): > > You know what arguing on Twitter is? Arguing on Twitter is two guys on trampolines yelling at each other over a fence. Heh, bullseye. Regards, Meateater ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/12 "2015-04-16T19:04:36Z")
I probably would have been more receptive to the OP without the link that also states: > [@](#): > > Francis, a prolific hunter who has also co-hosted the television show Eye of the Hunter, regularly posts pictures of herself posing next to dead bears, giraffes, buffaloes and zebras, among other animals. She uses a bow and arrow to kill her prey. > […] > “I prefer bowhunting, and the animals I have taken with a bow include: a 10 1/2 ft. brown bear, black bear, shiras moose, alaskan moose, dall sheep, stone sheep, desert bighorn ram, rocky mountain bighorn ram, mule deer, whitetail deer, elk, mountain goat, antelope, arapawa ram, kudu, zebra, black wildebeest, giraffe, springbuck, blesbuck, lynx, badger, and squirrel. I have also taken many of the same species and more with a rifle.” Presumably these weren’t all to feed hungry African villagers or anything nor did she make sure they were all “at the end of their natural life” before killing them. I don’t support the doxxing but, unless Gervais was doxxing her, I can’t disagree with him personally. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/13 "2015-04-16T19:13:37Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I probably would have been more receptive to the OP without the link that also states: > > Presumably these weren’t all to feed hungry African villagers or anything nor did she make sure they were all “at the end of their natural life” before killing them. > > I don’t support the doxxing but, unless Gervais was doxxing her, I can’t disagree with him personally. Why do you presume those animals weren’t used to feed people? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/14 "2015-04-16T19:17:48Z")
Just a gut feeling. Barring any evidence either way, I’ll leave it on someone else to show that they were rather than trying to prove that they weren’t. I also said “hungry African villagers” for a reason: she gave a story about some people practically begging her to kill the giraffe for them and how great it was to that for them. If she killed some bear so some otherwise well fed people could say “Yippee! Bear steaks!” then I’m not as receptive to what a wonderful thing she did. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/15 "2015-04-16T19:26:11Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I think anyone who hunts and kills a Giraffe for no purpose other than “fun” is an asshole. She didn’t kill him for “fun”. The village people went to her, explained that the giraffe was old and had been ostracized from his herd, he was miserable and dying and could she please dispatch him so they could use him for food. She agreed, they did, and none of the animal was wasted (his bones were even used.) I am a vegetarian who pretty much likes animals more than I like people. In this instance, _ **after reading her explanation of the event** _, I have no problem with what she did. I do have an issue with her posing next to the dead animal with a big proud smile on her face. IMO she should have shown more respect for his sacrifice. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/16 "2015-04-16T19:28:11Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Why do you presume those animals weren’t used to feed people? Who eats bears? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/17 "2015-04-16T19:29:45Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > She didn’t kill him for “fun”. The village people went to her, explained that the giraffe was old and had been ostracized from his herd, he was miserable and dying and could she please dispatch him so they could use him for food. She agreed, they did, and none of the animal was wasted (his bones were even used.) > > I am a vegetarian who pretty much likes animals more than I like people. In this instance, _ **after reading her explanation of the event** _, I have no problem with what she did. > > I do have an issue with her posing next to the dead animal with a big proud smile on her face. IMO she should have shown more respect for his sacrifice. Well said. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/18 "2015-04-16T19:31:24Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Who eats bears? Lots of people, I’m pretty sure. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/19 "2015-04-16T19:32:58Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Who eats bears? Who eats lynx? I can imagine her story… \*“I was approached toward the end of my hunt with a unique circumstance. They showed me this beautiful old male lynx that was wandering all alone. He had been kicked out of the pride by a younger and stronger lynx. He was past his breeding years and very close to death. “They asked me if I would preserve this lynx by providing all the local Canadians with food and other means of survival. He was inevitably going to die soon and he could either be wasted or utilized by the local people. “I chose to honor[sic] his life by providing others with his uses and I do not regret it for one second. Once he was down there were people waiting to take his meat. They also took his tail to make jewelry[sic], his bones to make other things, and did not waste a single part of him. “I am grateful to be a part of something so good.”\* ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851/20 "2015-04-16T19:34:43Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > She didn’t kill him for “fun”. The village people went to her, explained that the giraffe was old and had been ostracized from his herd, he was miserable and dying and could she please dispatch him so they could use him for food. She agreed, they did, and none of the animal was wasted (his bones were even used.) That’s a weird explanation. Are the village people, who presumably have lived near giraffes all their lives, not capable of dealing with such a situation unless a great white hunter is nearby? I feel like there’s some missing information. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-the-fuck-up-ricky-gervais/717851.md?page=2)