Comedian Ricky Gervais leads Twitter campaign against "huntress"

[Liberal_in_LA]

Former winner of Extreme Huntress show sparks fury after she poses SMILING next to dead giraffe
Comedian Ricky Gervais led an online charge against Rebecca Francis
The Brit shared a picture of the grandmother lying next to her 'trophy'
Caused to an online backlash against Francis - with 14,543 retweeting post
Francis is proud of hunting and hopes to inspire more women to take part


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038493/Former-winner-Extreme-Huntress-sparks-fury-poses-SMILING-dead-giraffe.html#ixzz3XJjXCrFU

[onehandle]

1. What a fucking tool she is. nt

[cyberswede]

2. Gross

That's utterly fucked up.

[BrotherIvan]

31. Exactly my thought

And he was right, how sick do you have to be to think this is a good thing? Just for a trophy? Her other shots with a bear, a zebra, and mountain goats are just as vomit-inducing. So sick.

[hlthe2b]

3. Sick, narcissistic sociopath.... n/t

[laundry_queen]

37. Yep. nt

[LittleBlue]

4. How many of the people criticizing her eat meat every day?

Yeah, she probably didn't use the meat to eat, but the dead animal doesn't care whether it's eaten or not. Dead is dead. All the cows killed by a projectile to the brain don't get photos on the internet.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. vegetarian here

[bluesbassman]

6. How many meat processing employees post pictures of themselves grinning like idiots...

next to the food they work with?

This is just a sick photo of a sick individual.

[RebelOne]

13. For 13 years, I was a copy editor for various

hunting and fishing magazines across the U.S. I am against hunting, but it was a job and it paid well. But whenever I saw the photos of hunters smiling and posing with their kills, I wanted to smack the smiles off their faces.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

28. Exactly how I feel...

[Contrary1]

23. Only one that I've seen

?

But then again, he was probably grinning at the idiot doing the interview.

[Tom Ripley]

27. A very very good point

Well done

[alphafemale]

14. And if I had my way I would force feed her every last damn bite.

That was nothing but a kill for the thrill of it.

[arikara]

15. What's factory farmed cows and meat eating got to do with this disgusting photo?

Because they're different issues. They are both valid issues, but they have nothing to do with each other.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

30. They have ABSOLUTELY nothing WHATSOEVER to do with each other, thanks for pointing that out

Disgusting she would do that, even worse it could be defended here on DU

[Logical]

16. LOL, FFS are you clueless. It is the reason she killed it. Just to kill it. nt

[a2liberal]

26. +1000000

As a vegetarian i'm always amazed by the random outrage over things like this, or something like eating dogs, from a society that collectively doesn't give a second thought about factory farming

[LanternWaste]

44. I'd think the relevant difference is many people who yet consume meat do not enjoy killing...

I'd think the relevant difference is many people who yet consume meat do not enjoy, and are not entertained by killing as she apparently does.

[truebrit71]

47. Yup, I love my McGiraffe Burger...oh wait....

...

[darkangel218]

48. I understand where youre coming from, however,

Killing animals for no other reason but ego and posting pics on instagram is worse than hunting for food. Its SICK.

[Owl]

7. Disgusting!

[gordianot]

8. I was taught you hunt, you kill it, you skin it and eat it.

This amazing dim wit should be arms length into blood.

[HassleCat]

9. A Giraffe?

I expected a lion, or a rhino, or anything but a giraffe. I can see the urge to shoot something big and wild, but a giraffe just wanders around munching on trees. Don't turn her loose in farm country, or she'll be gunning down the Holsteins.

[Hoyt]

12. My thought too.

[JaneyVee]

10. Real "brave", giraffe's have like zero defense.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. There's a difference between the thrill of the hunt...

and a simple kick in killing.

[Logical]

17. Not much thrill of the hunt with a powerful rifle and a scope. Bow Hunting maybe. Knife only better.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

32. The only hunting "thrill" that should be allowed is one man, one lion, caged together

and the man can have a baseball bat, nothing else.


Sounds fair to me.

[Logical]

38. I agree, I would give him any tool he can make by hand. Spear, sharp rock, etc. nt

[freshwest]

40. Nope! Mr. All Natural Tough Guy can use his allegedly superior intellect in his birthday suit.

Because the lion will only have what he was born with, so that's fair there.

Remember, Mr. Tough Guy would volunteer to be in the cage, the lion would not.

And Mr. Tough Guy can unlock the door on the cage, so he still has that advantage.

No, I'm not going to be nice about it.

[OnyxCollie]

18. Only a fucking psycho kills a giraffe.

[MissDeeds]

19. Sarah Palin must be drooling

I wish I hadn't seen this. To think that beautiful animal was used for some depraved woman's killer porn makes me ill...

[DebJ]

20. She should be hunted, and too bad she reproduced. Her genes need to come to a screeching halt. n/t

[byronius]

22. +10000

[byronius]

21. Just like those postcards of lynchings from the old days.

She looks just as ugly as they still do.

[Contrary1]

24. Giraffes in Danger of Extinction: Why Their Numbers Have Dropped

Fewer than 80,000 left...nothing at all to smile about.

"Giraffe numbers are dwindling across Africa because of poaching and habitat loss caused by human population growth, according to wildlife experts, and it's happening largely unnoticed.

“It’s a silent extinction,” Dr. Julian Fennessy, Executive Director of the Namibian-based Giraffe Conservation Research group and a leading wildlife scientist with 16 years of experience, told ABC News.

Now conducting the first comprehensive assessment on giraffes to be published next year, Fennessy said there’s been a drop of more than 40 percent in the mammal population in the last 15 years..."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/giraffes-danger-extinction-numbers-dropped/story?id=27334959

[Tom Ripley]

25. What kind of sick fuck hunts giraffes???!!!

[darkangel218]

29. The one in the pic, thats who.

Trophy hunters should be jailed.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

33. They should consider themselves lucky to ONLY be jailed

[Tom Ripley]

34. I hope there is a triumphant black rhino in her future

[blm]

35. There are psycho predators who hunt blonde women for their trophy cases - she might not like that

fact of life when it presents itself.

She is ignorantly evil.

[samsingh]

36. kick - evil piece of shit

[ncjustice80]

39. Ugh, there needs to be a world wide ban on hunting. nt

[olddots]

41. the gun humpers of the world will be aroused by this

humans are inhuman so much of the time .

[DeSwiss]

42. I agree with Ricky.

She's mentally ill.

K&R

[ThoughtCriminal]

43. Thank goodness somebody is doing something about

the overwhelming threat of giraffe infestation.

[LanternWaste]

45. I simply cannot understand (or want to be around) anyone who is entertained by killing.

I simply cannot understand (or want to be around) anyone who is entertained by killing.

[cwydro]

46. Kick

[spanone]

49. karma, becky..... karma.

[darkangel218]

50. Karma never fails.

Sooner or later it will catch up with "you".

[spanone]

52. i never, ever understood snuffing out life for pleasure.my uncle was a serious hunter and i hated it

his house was full of dead stuffed animals....otherwise he was a sweet guy

[tularetom]

51. A fucking giraffe, that ain't sport

Is she gonna eat it? Probably not.

Was it killing her livestock? Doubtful.

Was it charging her and posing a threat to her life? Unfortunately not.

I've been a hunter since I was eight years old and I've shot lots of critters that I either ate or donated the meat to charity.

I've also raised sheep and shot predators that were threatening our lambs (coyotes and a few wild dogs).

And every year I have to dispatch one or two rattlesnakes before they can slither into my garage or find their way into the basement.

But a giraffe? Gimme a break. That is one sick beyotch.

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. update.. she is getting death threats

[John1956PA]

54. Cheney's 2003 canned hunt.

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/morford/article/Dick-Cheney-Kills-Birds-Dead-The-manly-veep-has-2808606.php

From the article:

More than 400 birds were killed in one lackadaisical afternoon. Dick himself blasted the living crap out of 70 birds, all by himself. That's right, 70. Plus an unknown number of mallard ducks. Then they had them all plucked and vacuum packed and sent back home to show off to the staff. Dick was driven back to the airport in a Humvee.

[City Lights]

55. Fuck her.

[Ilsa]

56. "Hunt"? I doubt it. I suspect this was a canned

opportunity where the animal was enticed to graze near her. I bet she had a powerful weapon, too, maybe even semi-automatic. Poor animal didn't stand a chance.

Fuck her.