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http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/walter-palmer-cecil-the-lion-1.3170768

A Minnesota dentist is facing a wave of internet outrage after being named as the hunter behind the death of Cecil the lion.

Walter Palmer, a dentist and avid hunter from Bloomington, Minn., was identified as the hunter who killed Cecil, a beloved and popular attraction in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, by The Telegraph on Tuesday. He is thought to have paid approximately $50,000 US ($64,600 Cdn) to shoot the lion with a bow and arrow. The animal was later beheaded and skinned.


Seriously what is wrong with people? Surely they are insane.

This makes me physically ill.

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So what is typically the penalty for doing this. Because it obviously happens way too often. There's an entire industry on it.. whether killing for fun or selling the parts (tusks).

Well hopefully online mob shaming actually does something positive and this POS will be charged, pay some serious fine(s) and never repeat this act again.

Imo Ricky gervais quite succinctly captures it.

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Well hopefully online mob shaming actually does something positive and this POS will be charged, pay some serious fine(s) and never repeat this act again.

Imo Ricky gervais quite succinctly captures it.

wouldn't he need to be extradited to Zimbabwe for any charges to happen?

the two men he worked with are facing up to 15 years in prison, while this dude is safe back in USA. crazy. killed a famous lion, and potentially 'ended' the lives of two men looking to make a buck. solid vacation.

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wouldn't he need to be extradited to Zimbabwe for any charges to happen?

the two men he worked with are facing up to 15 years in prison, while this dude is safe back in USA. crazy. killed a famous lion, and potentially 'ended' the lives of two men looking to make a buck. solid vacation.

Yes extradition would be required which of course won't happen....who knows maybe the public pressure turns over some results here.

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I don't see why stating he is a dentist has anything to do with the disgusting thing he did?

"American slaughters lion" would be fine, or even just "Man slaughters lion"

it does seem a bit strange. You'd think people already have enough reason to dislike dentists....

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I don't see why stating he is a dentist has anything to do with the disgusting thing he did?

"American slaughters lion" would be fine, or even just "Man slaughters lion"

Didn't even think about it really. No offence meant to any dentists.

I suppose one could go further and just state.

Human slaughter lion.

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How much protein would lion meat have? Maybe it's just for the gains!?? Eat or be eaten, kill or be killed, only the strong survive #yolo wkwowoe

I don't know how someone could eat lion.. It's like eating a big cat.

But I guess meat is meat.

Either way I would assume it's packed with protein and essential amino acids lol

Apparently lion burgers are becoming a fad in the USA.

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I don't see why stating he is a dentist has anything to do with the disgusting thing he did?

"American slaughters lion" would be fine, or even just "Man slaughters lion"

it's the headline i saw around the internet too, but i think it just adds to the 'weirdness' of it all: meaning, some upper middle class professional shlub went to africa to take part in an illegal and morally dubious act before coming back to his upper middle class life

"hunter kills lion" is far less evocative

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