Reviled Lion-killing veterinarian plunges to death on hunting trip

[Liberal_in_LA]

An Italian veterinarian loathed for his showy hunting trips plunged to his death while shooting wild birds in the county’s north.

Luciano Ponzetto fell 100 feet down a ravine last week while hunting birds with a group of friends just outside the Italian city of Turin last week.

“He died instantly and there was nothing that could be done,” an Italian police spokesman told British newspaper The Sun. “It looks like he slipped.”

The 55-year-old, who worked at a veterinarian in Turin, sparked outrage last year when he posted photos of himself grinning next to a lion he killed in Tanzania. Other photos on his social media accounts showed him smiling as he held a dead jaguar, proudly gazing at a slain ram and cocking a gun as he crouched next to a slaughtered warthog.



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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/lion-killing-veterinarian-plunges-death-hunting-trip-article-1.2913198

[Justice]

1. Karma.

[forgotmylogin]

68. Especially that the big strong lion hunter was done in by birds.

Ironic karma, don'tcha think?

[lark]

106. My immediate thought as well.

[yuiyoshida]

130. As a Buddhist....

I do believe in Karma...and here it is!

[radical noodle]

2. Too bad it wasn't a prolonged

agonizing death.

[Ilsa]

44. I wouldn't go that far, but I wish he knew

that he was dying and felt his wasted, wretched life slipping away.

[radical noodle]

61. There was a time I wouldn't have gone that far either

but we do need to remember that we're no longer politically correct now that Trump's been elected, so this is one time I chose not to be. I hate trophy hunters. They have no redeeming qualities in the eyes of this animal lover.

[New Orleans Strong]

78. A jaguar? Really? A jaguar. There aren't any left, really. I just despair

Because why? Can it feel that good? And if it really, truly feels that good to destroy decades of hard, hard work from geneticists and husbandry people and international treaties and so much of the world doing everything to keep - ya know - jaguars. Jaguars. He killed one. I'm in this field, and my soul hurts right now.

[wordpix]

82. they are not protected? Did he poach it?

[Ilsa]

91. That's an excellent argument. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

59. So...

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<splat>

Isn't good enough for you?

[radical noodle]

63. Well, that does make it seem better somehow!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

94. He was hunting a bird too....

[jimlup]

99. Trust me - it was

as a mountaineer who's taken an unexpected fall from a high place (I survived uninjured because I had my ice axe and was able to self arrest) he had time to think about what was happening and to know what came next.

[niyad]

112. good!

[Skittles]

3. GOOD

fuck these cowards

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Karma.

[WheelWalker]

7. It's not just a good idea... it's the law.

[malaise]

5. Oh My!

Trying not to laugh

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Oh tough ass you bastard!

[Calculating]

8. Is it wrong to not feel bad about this?

Seems like Karma to me.

[louis c]

60. Ma Mom taught me if you couldn't say something good about someone

don't say anything at all.

This piece of shit is dead........GOOD!!!!

[Rex]

9. I remember reading about that POS. Hmmm say something nice...

I am sorry he died.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Your mom raised you right!

[Rex]

14. Stop it!

Making me laugh and I am trying to keep a somber face...that poor animal murderer, about to murder a bird and fell off a cliff.

[malaise]

16. Sometimes there is justice

I hope he landed in bird shit

[Rex]

18. Saw it coming a mile away.

Too soon?

[malaise]

37. Just perfect

[lastone]

41. LOL -

hope he slipped on and landed in bird shit!

[malaise]

43. ROFL

[sheshe2]

17. I hope....

one of his targets pushed him off defending themselves.

[wordpix]

80. it IS justice and karma all at once. The heavens are laughing

[wordpix]

79. also,he made a wonderful contribution as a

meal for the wild animals.

[niyad]

115. nah. they recovered his body fairly quickly.

[Merlot]

83. Something nice: I'm glad he can no longer kill animals.

Think of all the animals that will live!

[jpak]

10. Poor kitties

[spanone]

12. a veterinarian who KILLS animals....

must have been one conflicted fucker.

[PatSeg]

54. Seriously

That is pretty warped.

[niyad]

116. he reportedly said there was no moral or ethical conflict between his job and hunting.

one very twisted, thankfully gone, nutjob.

[tblue37]

126. Like that Texas vet who murdered someone's pet cat with a bow & arrow? nt

[madinmaryland]

13. WTF? A veterinarian hunting and killing animals???

[Rex]

15. How do you think he made his money!?

Always mysteriously people bringing in their shot animals. The ones he let live.

[VOX]

19. Only regret is that he died "instantly." I'll stop there. n/t

[alittlelark]

24. Yeah....true that....

[Hoyt]

20. There is a photo of Trump's sorry assed sons hunting exactly like the second one.

[Liberal_in_LA]

26. Yep

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2308096.1438190981!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/hunt30n-8-web.jpg

[malaise]

38. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

"The Birds are Coming!"

[forgotmylogin]

71. We should start sending birds as gifts to the White House!

Perhaps stuffed ones or wind-up mechanical ones so that live ones wouldn't suffer in any way. Imagine how bewildered they would be - "Why are we getting all these birds?"

[malaise]

74. Well they could borrow the eagle without the combover

[niyad]

114. now there is a lovely thought!! or maybe dvd's of that movie "the birds".

[wordpix]

85. disgusting. Would anyone trust these 2 to keep Trump's blind trust?

[appacom]

89. Now, these are the the guys ...

I'd like to see at the bottom of a cliff - With their daddy and all like minded relatives, friends, acquaintances and pretty much all current cabinet nominees,Putin, and - well, all thr racist, sexist, Islamaphobic, homophobic, anti-Semitic, hateful motherfuckers who voted for dumbass- and especially all those - majority- white women who fucked themselves - and us - royally. Oh,lest we forget these assholes - Kanye West, Nick Cannon, and all the other Black folks, mostly men, . who thought it cool not to vote or talk smack about Hilliary cause it made them counter cultural or hip, whatever the fuck that means, and the so called journalists who regaled us for months with their bullshit poll numbers, and their false equivalencies, fuck them too.

[niyad]

118. wish I could k and r this.

[Hoyt]

95. Anyone who'd kill a beautiful animal for "sport," is disgustingly deplorable.

[Kolesar]

104. Uday and Qusay ... eom

[smirkymonkey]

110. Let's hope the same fate awaits them.

They make me sick.

[narnian60]

21. He wasn't even worthy to touch those beautiful animals.

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Bastard.

[alittlelark]

22. The spirits of the beautiful animals he killed led him to his death....

....at least that is what I fervently hope.

[GentryDixon]

23. Boo Hoo.

Not.

[Raine]

25. Karma is a beautiful thing!

[oswaldactedalone]

27. He's dead then

nm

[mikeargo]

28. Good.

[HassleCat]

29. I'm not gloating

But I'm not crying, either.

[Jeroen]

30. I hope the rocks he fell on are okay and doing well

[niyad]

32. yikes, you are absolutely correct. pooooor rocks.

[niyad]

31. kharma can be wonderful

[niyad]

33. thank you for this bright spot in my day. and before we hear the "but we are better than that"

meme, we are allowed to be thankful that certain scum is no longer using up our resources.

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. ..

[malaise]

55. +1,000

[resistance2016]

62. + infinity

I'd set off fireworks if I had any.

[lunasun]

35. K&R !

[Jack-o-Lantern]

36. Good. How does it feel to be injured and dying motherfucker.

[Calculating]

42. Unfortunately I doubt he felt much

More of a "Oh shit" moment followed by getting crushed on the rocks kinda thing.

[UTUSN]

39. The U.S. dentist who killed Cecil the Lion has a new Porche

[Demobrat]

46. For a second I thought this was the guy.

Unfortunately, I guess there are more than one. Fortunately, there's one less.

[wordpix]

86. probably a gift from United Assoc. of Animal Killers or NRA

[NBachers]

40. Is his body dismembered and filled with maggots flies worms? Do hyenas eat his remains?

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[niyad]

119. no, his body was recovered fairly quickly. he and his buddies were just outside turin.

[TonyPDX]

45. Gravity. It's not just a good idea. It's the law.

[TeamPooka]

47. As always, watch that first step, it's a doozy. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

48. One down.

Keep. It. Going.

[dhill926]

49. Aw

That's a real fucking shame.

[SammyWinstonJack]

50. Ah, too bad......

[kysrsoze]

51. Fuck him

[cer7711]

52. I am not against hunting . . .

. . . for food.

But trophy hunting? Killing an animal just to take its head or to pose with its corpse?!

Uh, no. Can't follow the deranged logic there: "I love animals so much I kill them."

I won't make light of this man's tragic death. I will note that it is ironic though, eh?

Karma indeed . . .

[TexasBushwhacker]

66. Oh, but they don't "kill" them

Trophy hunters will say they "took" it.

They also won't say they sawed the head off and left the body to rot. They'll say they "took the trophy".

I say, if you insist on taking the life of an innocent animal, own it. Don't describe it with some nice sounding euphemisms. Say "I shot it and followed the trail of blood. Then I took a hacksaw and took its head off. Yeah me!"

[RKP5637]

53. I couldn't be happier!!!!! n/t

[Vinca]

56. I hope someone stuffs him and mounts him on a wall.

[resistance2016]

57. Some good news for a change.

The simple truth is that the world IS better off WITHOUT certain people. Earth will NOT miss this POS, and it was HIS choice.

[niyad]

120. welcome to du, and you are entirely correct.

[paleotn]

58. woopsie! Awwww....

...couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole. Karma has everyone's number.

[Tikki]

64. Here in this Country they would say...He died doing what he loved and jesus called...

him home for reasons we will never know.



Tikki

[dumbcat]

65. Picture like those always sadden me

I am a gun owner, but I really don't like sport hunting.

[forgotmylogin]

67. "First, do no harm?"

I guess there's nothing similar to the Hippocratic oath for veterinarians?

I'm not being snarky, though. I know that euthanizing animals in misery sometimes is part of the job description.

But I thought the major reason people became animal doctors is that they loved animals. This guy was a walking contradiction.

Karma'll gitcha' though.

[Ruby the Liberal]

69. I'm truly sorry to hear that

he didn't suffer.

[lastlib]

70. One of those obituaries I read with great pleasure......

Not wishing death upon him, but certainly not grieving over it either.

Still roaring for Cecil......

[milestogo]

72. Here's a picture of smiling vultures feasting on his body.

[wordpix]

81. we can only hope

[kevink077]

73. Good riddance

No big loss to humanity here. Karma got him good!

[progressoid]

75. Aw, that's a shame.

[7962]

76. You buy your ticket, you takes your chances nt

[JeaneRaye]

77. Good.

Hopefully, the killer of Cecil the Lion will meet a similar fate.

[Hulk]

84. Just made my day.

I would rather he was attacked by a lion before falling...but I'll settle for one less douche bag on the planet.

[BlueStater]

87. It's his own fault that he's dead.

If he wasn't out in the wilderness murdering innocent animals just so he could feel like more of a man, the jerk would still be alive. No sympathy whatsoever

[liquid diamond]

88. Good riddance asshole.

[BigDemVoter]

90. Good.

Not that I wish ill on people, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't glad.

[Maru Kitteh]

92. G - O - O - D ! ! ! ! I only hope Uday and Kusay Jr. folow in his footsteps.

[WhiteTara]

93. Karma in action.

[romanic]

96. Rot in piss asshole.

[SlimJimmy]

97. Good riddance (nt)

[arthritisR_US]

98. Good.

[Mendocino]

100. Like some others

I saw the OP and first thought of the coward dentist. Then I thought of the veterinarian who shot a cat in the head with an arrow. Then the smirking trump spawn. SMH

[mercuryblues]

101. I don't believe

this version of his death.

My question is- What did he know about the trump boys that he was going to expose? An experience hunterlike him would know not to stand on a cliff.

[MineralMan]

102. Poetic Justice...

[Sancho]

103. Maybe that's a good location for the Trump boys to go hunting...

just a suggestion.

[littlemissmartypants]

105. Please tell me there were

Big Cats waiting, mouths agape, down below as he fell face first.

[niyad]

122. sadly, do not think there are a lot of the big cats outside turin. and his body was

recovered fairly quickly.

[hellofromreddit]

107. I'm ashamed of the replies to this.

The guy's dead, the fight's over.

[SMC22307]

109. No, it's not. The Cecil-killing American dentist is still out there,

the Trumps are still out there, the Cheneys are still out there, trophy hunters around the world are still out there.

The fight isn't anywhere *near* over.

[hellofromreddit]

113. No, this thread is all about grave dancing and hating a single corpse.

That is not the same thing as fighting poaching or caring about animals. Not by a long shot.

[niyad]

121. see post 33.

[hellofromreddit]

124. This is not a "We're better than that," post. This is an "I'm disgusted that we aren't," post.

[RandySF]

108. .

[smirkymonkey]

111. Good.

And good riddance.

[Bucky]

117. He died doing what he loved... and shared his joy with the rest of us.

I see this story entirely in the spirit of the holidays. Win-win.

[niyad]

123. a most gracious view.

[tblue37]

125. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I can't be polite about the deaths of people who kill for fun. nt

[moondust]

127. Real veterinarians

would never mistreat animals like that. The guy may have done the coursework and had the paperwork to show he was a veterinarian on paper, but that didn't make him a real veterinarian. I don't know if vet or medical schools even try to screen for "moral suitability" to practice their professions.

[heaven05]

128. oh well

shit happens to the best people

[Adsos Letter]

129. Hopefully, there is an afterlife.

And all of those critters will be there.

Waiting for him.

No guns allowed this time.