# Spielberg pic of "dead" dino freaks out net morons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922 "2014-07-12T10:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/1 "2014-07-12T10:42:44Z")
As most of you have seen, a pic of Spielberg posing in front of an obvious prop of a dead (sleeping?) triceratops dinosaur lit up the net recently. It was a jab at the Texas cheerleader posing with a dead lion after a hunt. Cool My point here is not about hunting, but how in the flying fuck do people think this was real? Comments all over the net ragged the “hunter” for killing such an animal. How can people be so fucking stupid and ignorant? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/2 "2014-07-12T10:47:06Z")
Linky? ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/3 "2014-07-12T10:49:13Z")
you can probably google it before i remember how to post a link, apologies ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/4 "2014-07-12T10:51:49Z")
> **[Steven Spielberg is accused of poaching dinosaur after Facebook users are...](https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/steven-spielberg-denounced-killing-dinosaur-facebook-users-article-1.1863400)** > > Steven Spielberg has been accused of slaughtering an animal — except his alleged victim is already extinct. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/5 "2014-07-12T10:54:47Z")
So the story is that _two people_ made angry comments on Facebook about a 20-year-old photo? Must’ve been a slow news day. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/6 "2014-07-12T11:00:36Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Linky? [Linky.](http://wtvr.com/2014/07/11/steven-spielberg-dead-dinosaur/) ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/7 "2014-07-12T11:08:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So the story is that _two people_ made angry comments on Facebook about a 20-year-old photo? > > Must’ve been a slow news day. No, many people freaked out and thought it was real. It just makes me laugh…or cry ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/8 "2014-07-12T11:38:23Z")
I’m a meat eater, but I still think it’s wrong to kill dinosaurs for sport. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/9 "2014-07-12T11:41:18Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m a meat eater, but I still think it’s wrong to kill dinosaurs for sport. Personally, I’d say it depends on whether they crush a butterfly as they fall and thus change the outcome of a presidential election. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/10 "2014-07-12T12:04:06Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > No, many people freaked out and thought it was real. It just makes me laugh…or cry You’re easily whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/11 "2014-07-12T12:06:21Z")
There are plenty of people who have no idea dinosaurs are extinct. I have taught several of them. We here on the dope are creatures of privilege. ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/12 "2014-07-12T12:11:28Z")
That is a compulsory post to my FB page. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/13 "2014-07-12T12:16:03Z")
It’s a photo from 20 years ago? Maybe Spielberg killed the last dinosaur. That’s why they’re now extinct. /extreme sarcasm ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/14 "2014-07-12T12:21:22Z")
The pic was on reddit yesterday. Pretty much agreed by everyone that it was all a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/15 "2014-07-12T13:51:38Z")
From the NY Daily News article: > [@](#): > > “What a sad, disgusting scene … a wry smile on his face while this once proud mother animal breathes it’s last … leaving the babies cowering in the brush to slowly, painfully starve to death … oh the humanity!!” seethed another Facebook user. This just looks like playing along to me. There’s a hell of a lot of whooshing going on. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/16 "2014-07-12T14:12:02Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m a meat eater, but I still think it’s wrong to kill dinosaurs for sport. Well, the bigger problem is all those poachers going after triceratops horn. Considered a powerful aphrodisiac in parts of Asia, don’t you know. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/17 "2014-07-12T14:19:56Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > From the NY Daily News article: > > This just looks like playing along to me. There’s a hell of a lot of whooshing going on. Indeed. I don’t think anyone has said “Oh, the HUMANITY!” with a straight face since the Hindenberg disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/18 "2014-07-12T14:42:36Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m a meat eater, but I still think it’s wrong to kill dinosaurs for sport. Me too. Pretty soon dinosaurs will just be confined to zoos. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/19 "2014-07-12T14:44:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So the story is that _two people_ made angry comments on Facebook about a 20-year-old photo? > > Must’ve been a slow news day. It was a lot more than two. I saw it even on my own timeline. A lot of people didn’t really process ‘dinosaur’. They just saw Speilberg posing with a dead animal and kneejerked into outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/20 "2014-07-12T17:04:20Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > It was a lot more than two. I saw it even on my own timeline. A lot of people didn’t really process ‘dinosaur’. They just saw Speilberg posing with a dead animal and kneejerked into outrage. Not really— from what I read this whole outrage over the triceratops was made as a sort of parody of the facebook comments from a few days back condemning some fashion model who had been photographed while hunting in a safari. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922.md?page=2)