Assholes are paying $10,000+ to go on trophy hunts for giraffes (WARNING: GRAPHIC)

[Neue Regel]

How small of a person do you have to be to participate in something this terrible?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089806/The-giraffe-hunters-pay-10-000-shoot-gentle-giants-guns-bows-sport.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Tourist trophy hunters are paying thousands of pounds to go and shoot giraffes with high-powered guns and bows.

Hunters pay up to a whopping £10,000 for the the chance to slay them - preferring bulls because they are the biggest.

Safari clubs and game reserves ask for a £1,500 trophy fee, and then add on rates for guides and trackers costing around £1,000 per day.

The hunts typically last three-to-five days and see tourists using .458 Winchester Magnum rifles to kill the animals.

With most hunters flying to Africa from their homes in Europe or America, the costs stretch into five figures.

[valerief]

1. Well, you know giraffes are overpopulating Africa.

Assholes is correct.

[mrs_p]

2. Disgusting

I'm not against hunting for sustenance. But what part of this animal are they going to use? And, a family shot with a dead giraffe? I bet it's their Christmas card.

[Neue Regel]

8. Exactly. I have no issue with people who eat what they kill

But I find trophy hunters to be despicable human beings. If someone kills for sport that tells me pretty much all I need to know about them.

[BlueCaliDem]

10. Despicable. Eat what you kill or it's murder

that's how I see it.

People like this make me sick.

[onehandle]

4. Disgusting mother fuckers. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 1%. nt

[ZombieHorde]

5. I think trophy hunts are really fucked up. nt

[snagglepuss]

6. That mindset is beyond my comprehension. It disgusts me to my core.

Why do people want to destroy something so magnificient and harmless.

[hedgehog]

7. Why the hell would anyone want to shoot a giraffe?

I'm not anti-hunting, my neighbor hunts deer and turkey on my back 60, and I do like venison. But this is just vandalism!

[undeterred]

9. What kind of losers shoot a giraffe?

[benld74]

11. Problem with the World - ASSHOLES have too much money! And not enough morals

[Peregrine Took]

12. Who are these vile people?

Lets get some names....

[flvegan]

13. Hunt? Hunter? Laughable terms for cowards.

I find it almost funny that sportsmen tolerate the use of those terms in regards to these wastes of oxygen.

[bullwinkle428]

14. This is an utter fucking disgrace. The world really is seen as a toilet for some people...

[Auntie Bush]

15. I can't believe anyone could shoot and kill this majestic animal...how sad and disgusting!

[redqueen]

16. Trophy hunting makes me sick.

Trophy hunters are disgusting, horrible excuses for people.

They have facebook pages showing off their 'kills'. It is truly, deeply sick.

[polly7]

17. Except for the young child, I hate these people. nt.

[marmar]

18. Makes you want to teach the giraffe how to fire an Uzi

nt

[PA Democrat]

19. Disgusting.

[Beaverhausen]

20. Giraffes? How cowardly is that?

That is truly sick.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. Nice pic...

Fun for the whole family.