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Ex-NRA head Wayne LaPierre and his wife secretly turned an elephant they shot in Botswana into home decor: report
Wayne LaPierre and his wife secretly shipped elephant parts from their Botswana hunt to avoid public outcry.
Records obtained by The New Yorker showed Susan LaPierre requesting the shipment have no clear links to the couple.
Taxidermy records showed the parts were turned into home decor, like stools, an umbrella stand, and a trash can.
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An export company in Botswana emailed the couple to confirm the shipment of animal parts, which included one cape-buffalo skull, two sheets of elephant skin, two elephant ears, four elephant tusks, and four front elephant feet, according to The New Yorker report published Thursday.
Susan LaPierre later requested that the shipment should have no clear links to the couple, asking to use the name of an American taxidermist as "the consignee" and that the company "not use our names anywhere if at all possible," The New Yorker reported.
In one message sent by the taxidermist, who was not named in the report, to the shipping company, he explained that the LaPierre's "can not afford bad publicity and a out cry,"
which is "why they are trying not to have there names show up on these shipments so the information does not fall into the wrong hands," according to records obtained by the news outlet.
Susan LaPierre also noted that the couple expected to receive "an assortment of skulls and skins from warthogs, impalas, a zebra, and a hyena" in the shipment, according to the report.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ex-nra-head-wayne-lapierre-and-his-wife-secretly-turned-an-elephant-they-shot-in-botswana-into-home-decor-report/ar-AAMIWgP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
madaboutharry
(40,147 posts)grumpyduck
(6,197 posts)dalton99a
(81,062 posts)After Susan LaPierre killed an elephant in Botswana, video shows, she touched the creatures feet and said, A podiatrist would love working on him.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-head-of-the-nra-and-his-wife-secretly-shipped-their-elephant-trophies-home
Blue Owl
(49,902 posts)I was going to go with ugh but you phrased it so much better.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Shellback Squid
(8,909 posts)Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)frogmarch
(12,144 posts)When I was in elementary school, one of the teachers' husbands was a trophy hunter who went to Africa every so often and killed whatever he could.
I was in their house once and almost fainted in horror at seeing the trophies, the most memorable of which was a wastebasket made out of an elephant's foot and part of its leg.
JoeOtterbein
(7,697 posts)...for what they did to you as a child.
(tears)
3Hotdogs
(12,197 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)DenaliDemocrat
(1,472 posts)Shot quite a few deer too. We were poor and the extra meat was welcome.
This is simply murder
FoxNewsSucks
(10,375 posts)Hunting for food is a far different thing than what Wayne ThePeter and Mrs ThePeter do.
I'd like to see the end result of their encounter with elephants without guns. It's what they deserve, and would improve the planet.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I hunt whitetail deer in the south. To eat. I dont trophy hunt although I dont begrudge those who only shoot large bucks. But Does eat better and where I hunt there are no predators of deer and over population is a threat.
This dumbass motherfucker went to shoot an animal had no ability or reason to eat. One that is endangered. And did not have a clue how to it without causing the animal suffering.
The guide looked at each other and could you tell they thought he was a fucking rich tool. Even these Two hardened professional hunters could no longer stand the suffering he was causing this animal and had to dispatch the animal for him. No wonder that was never aired.
Got I hate this fucker. All hunters I know want a quick kill.
In my camp its all about getting the best meat in the world with no farm or slaughter house involved.
Raine
(30,540 posts)I'd pay to see him and his wife's body parts used as a garbage can!
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,998 posts)scipan
(2,295 posts)They make me sick. If I had a choice of either saving the life of an elephant or Wayne LaPierre, I would save the elephant without hesitation.