Meet Minnesota dentist Walter J. Palmer, who paid $55,000 to illegally hunt & kill "Cecil the Lion"

[Miles Archer]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11767119/Cecil-the-lions-killer-revealed-as-American-dentist.html

Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, is believed to have paid £35,000 to shoot and kill the much-loved lion with a bow and arrow. The animal was shot on July 1 in Hwange National Park. Two independent sources have confirmed the hunter's identity to the paper, which has also seen a copy of the relevant hunting permit.

Conservation groups in Zimbabwe reacted angrily to the news that the 13-year-old animal had been killed: partly because the lion was known to visitors and seemingly enjoyed human contact, and partly because of the way in which he was killed. He was lured out of the national park and shot.

During the hunt – which the organisers later admitted was badly carried out – it was alleged that Cecil was lured at night about half a mile out of the national park using bait, and then shot with a bow and arrow. The next day he was found wounded by the hunters and killed, before being beheaded and skinned.

Animals cannot be killed within the confines of the park. The hunters then removed his collar – further contravening park rules.

[LiberalElite]

1. He should have spent the $55,000

on therapy to resolve his inadequacy issues.

[Politicalboi]

2. Karma, Karma, Karma

My he go broke, and shamed in his hometown.

[Miles Archer]

7. His Website is down ("service unavailable"), and...

...there is supposedly a sign on the closed office door directing visitors to a P.R. firm.

Found that out in one of the articles I found on the way to the one I posted.

People know who he is, people know where he is, he's basically doing a George Zimmerman and laying low.

[tenderfoot]

3. He has one of the most punchable faces I've seen in a long time.

eom

[Hoppy]

4. --- piece of shit.

I hope he loses all his patients.

[Sienna86]

5. Horrific.

Hard to imagine he will keep many patients.

[Coventina]

6. I hope he never gets another moment's peace in this life.

Cecil's revenge.....

[LisaL]

8. Doesn't look to be his first rodeo either.

"In 2008, Palmer pleaded guilty to making false statements to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a black bear he shot and killed in Wisconsin outside of an authorized hunting zone, according to court documents."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/minnesota-dentist-acknowledges-killing-zimbabwe-lion-named-cecil/story?id=32733466

[monmouth4]

9. His chicklet type teeth look punchable....n/t

[Demonaut]

10. the thrill of killing is what drives this man, the thought is disgusting