They hadn’t mastered bow & arrow technology enough to kill a senile and half-dead giraffe.
I suspect it was less “Bwana, would you do our poor village this great favour?” and more “wanna kill a big bull giraffe? $5000 and he’s all yours.”
The Green Bay Packers, twice a season. 
On a more serious note, I do, but I prefer venison. Haven’t had bear roast in over a decade. 
I assume the Village People are waiting for the government to handle the situation for them. There are strict laws against poaching.
Or they’re singing YMCA.
I fucking detest that useless fat little cunt, I really do hate Ricky Gervais.
My copy of The Joy of Cooking has a couple of bear recipes.
HIS sacrifice? Look, when I work late, I’m making a sacrifice. When I give money to charity, I’m making a sacrifice. If I threw myself in front of a bullet to save my kid, I’d be making a sacrifice.
But this giraffe didn’t make a sacrifice. Dude got shot. Nobody consulted him, he had no part in that decisionmaking process.
On the other hand, why should she show him any respect? Is he gonna be sad because he got disrespected? “Oh no, someone shot and killed me and chopped me up for food, but what really bothers my giraffe ghost is the smile on her face”? What does a live giraffe need with her respect, let alone the giraffe she just killed?
I think there’s way too much anthropomorphizing going on in that post. Either it was okay for her to shoot the giraffe or it wasn’t (I come down squarely on the “okay” side of things, surely a surprise for those who think I’m cryptoPETA ), but I see no reason for her not to smile by the carcass, dance by the carcass, or put a funny hat on the carcass and draw a mustache on its giraffey lips. Animals don’t care about that shit.
If I can guess I would say that she was there specifically to hunt on a preserve that allows it. From my understanding those places are controlled and you have to pay to hunt. Anyone without the proper permits would be poaching. The locals may not legally be allowed to hunt.
That’s a very good question. Is it possible that the village people didn’t have the proper equipment or techniques to dispatch the animal as quickly and humanely as possible with minimal trauma to the meat, and the “great white hunter” did?
She used a bow and arrow.
Why do you believe her explanation of the event? Why do you think that village was incapable of dispatching that giraffe until she happened along?
So many Africans are dependent on rich white she-hunters to feed them and yet they wonder why there’s a problem with starvation in their nation.
What are they going to do sometime when there’s rampant malnutrition and all the rich white women with guns are busy?
That makes sense too.
Side note: I saw a comment on a Facebook post regarding this issue that said if the animal was dying anyway a vet should have put it down … yeah, because there are veterinarians all over Africa who can simply walk up to a massive wild animal and inject it with a little tiny needle.
:rolleyes:
I saw Loach’s comment after I posted. I think their idea might be the right answer. (Locals aren’t allowed to hunt in that area.)
You’d think between a cop, a sailor, an outlaw biker, a construction worker and a native American they’d be able to come up with something that could kill a giraffe.
Francis and Sacco wanted attention and they got it. Fuck them, who cares?
I think Enginerd is almost certainly right… they could easily have dealt with it themselves, but figured she’d pay for the right to do so. Which is perfectly fine, aside from the insanely patronizing way she describes it. (Assume that that’s in fact what happened.)
I find it incredibly unlikely that an entire village of people who actually live there and have to deal with large animals as a life-or-death proposition would be unable to kill an aging giraffe in a vaguely humane fashion if they really needed to.
Rebecca Francis posing with:
The Long Horned Sheep that was raping nuns in Tasmania
The morbidly depressed lion who begged to be allowed to die with dignity at the Atlanta zoo
The zebra who killed Jon-Benet Ramsey and whose death finally brought her family some peace
