Dentist who killed Cecil the lion defends African hunt

[CountAllVotes]

Source: Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion fueled a global backlash emerged Sunday for an interview in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt, expressed agitation at the animosity directed at those close to him, and said he would be back at work within days.

Walter Palmer, who has spent more than a month out of sight after becoming the target of protests and threats, intends to return to his suburban Minneapolis dental practice Tuesday. In an evening interview conducted jointly by the Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune that advisers said would be the only one granted, Palmer said again that he believes he acted legally and that he was stunned to find out his hunting party had killed one of Zimbabwe’s treasured animals.

“If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study, obviously I wouldn’t have taken it,” Palmer said. “Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion.”

Cecil was a fixture in the vast Hwange National Park and had been fitted with a GPS collar as part of Oxford University lion research. Palmer said he shot the big cat with the black mane using an arrow from his compound bow outside the park’s borders but it didn’t die immediately. He disputed conservationist accounts that the wounded lion wandered for 40 hours and was finished off with a gun, saying it was tracked down the next day and killed with an arrow.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Dentist-who-killed-Cecil-the-lion-defends-African-6488736.php

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Never even says he's sorry. Hope he enjoys rotting in a very HOT Hell!

[irisblue]

1. .

jerk wad

[shenmue]

2. Preach

[Human101948]

26. How ironic it would be if his rotting headless corpse was found somewhere outside of his office...

Oh yes, and it would be a skinned corpse as well.

I wonder what they would use to lure him out?

[7962]

33. Come on. you think it'd be fine to murder and dismember this guy?

I'm no hunter but thats ridiculous

[Human101948]

36. I would never do that...

I just thought how ironic it would be if somebody did.

[Arugula Latte]

67. A rival dentist could mount his head on his waiting room wall.

[tavernier]

47. Oh gosh golly no.

That thought would never cross my mind.

[BuelahWitch]

66. Shit no!

Shoot him with an arrow first...

[beac]

51. Time to post this again:

Extradite Minnesotan Walter James Palmer to face justice in Zimbabwe.

Cecil the Lion, a resident of Zimbabwe's national park, and an national icon was poached and killed this week. Media reports in the Guardian, Wall Street Journal and elsewhere have identified American Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minneapolis, MN as the poacher. He is alleged to have lured Cecil from the safety of the national park to kill him. Two of Palmer's local accomplices are already in custody. Zimbabwe authorities now actively seeking Palmer in connection with this incident.

We urge the Secretary Of State John Kerry and the Attorney General Loretta Lynch to fully cooperate with the Zimbabwe authorities and to extradite Walter Palmer promptly at the Zimbabwe government's request.


https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/extradite-minnesotan-walter-james-palmer-face-justice-zimbabwe

[tomm2thumbs]

3. 'taken it'... he says

I guess he can't put the words 'shamelessly killed it' into print, but I will.

[roguevalley]

18. this bastard should be in jail. anyone who goes to him should be shunned. he's a liar

[Paladin]

37. That's classic trophy hunter terminology.

"Harvest" is another popular verb substitute for killing. Just goes to show how aware trophy hunters are of the out-of-date, unpopular blood sport they pursue.

[wordpix]

58. good point - "murder" is more appropos for Cecil's death

[CanonRay]

41. That struck me as well

He cannot say what he really did. He "took" it. Took it where? What a mega-asshole.

[love_katz]

4. As usual, he's only sorry he got caught.

And, since he didn't hunt Cecil for food or to defend anyone from the lion, it sure seems like murder to me.

[rpannier]

5. Guy is a jackass

So is anybody who still goes to see him for dental work

[CountAllVotes]

8. Judging by the comments from the article ...

Palmer doesn't sound like he'll be returning to "business as usual" dare one suggest?

[PatrickforO]

9. No, haven't you heard? He's got a contract as a political analyst with Fox News!

Just kidding...

What a jerk.

[CountAllVotes]

12. Lets hope he doesn't end up at a debate

Toxic goods this dude is, pure t o x i c .

[wordpix]

59. and then he'll get in the race for the repuke nomination

another dangerous clown

[progree]

6. He's going back to work at his dental clinic Tuesday. Should be interesting.

[IrishEyes]

61. How does he still have clients?

There have to be other dentists around. I think every dentist in that area that they aren't low life murderers like him should highlight that in their ads. I would dump him if I were a client. It isn't hard to find another dentist.

[hack89]

64. Most people don't care about what happened

The outrage was intense but small and brief.

[bluestateguy]

7. Let me guess, he hired a pricey PR firm

Likely he spent tens of thousands on a PR firm that specializes in crisis management and grooming for the media.

Not to atone for his criminal, evil and murderous act, no, but to rehabilitate his image.

[christx30]

14. Can't use dishwashing detergent

on anything that radioactive.
Glad to see he's wasteing his money.

[beac]

32. I am sure you are right and I am sure that is where the idea to substitute "taken" for

"killed" came from.

I think he's going to find that, even with pricey PR BS phrasing, no one is buying what he's selling.

[pokerfan]

10. Follow-up questions for Dr. Poacher

What kind of bait did you or your "party" use to lure the animal out of the protected refuge that is Hwange National Park so that he could be killed?

Who was it who tried to destroy the collar, your or one of your party?

You pleaded guilty to poaching a black bear some time ago in Wisconsin so do you consider yourself a serial poacher?

[7962]

34. Apparently the guides dragged something behind their truck to lure him nt

[PSPS]

11. "It didn’t die immediately."

Palmer said he shot the big cat with the black mane using an arrow from his compound bow outside the park’s borders but it didn’t die immediately.

So, "it" suffered for some time, probably giving this cretin an erection. Killing is a fetish for these people.

[Paladin]

43. OF COURSE it didn't die immediately---he shot it with a fucking ARROW.

Being struck by an arrow virtually never results in an immediate death: the targeted animal has to experience enough internal bleeding to lose its power of mobility, then lose consciousness, and then die---and that takes time. The old rule of thumb used to be that once you shot a game animal with an arrow, you sat down and smoked a cigarette, after which you started trying to find and follow a blood trail to the dead animal. The foregoing ought to give you an idea of why bow-hunting is so popular with the likes of Ted Nugent---and Nugent wannabes like this prick dentist.

[pansypoo53219]

13. i call BULLSHIT. he's just trying to come out of hiding.

[tblue37]

15. His pants must be blazing like the dickens! nt

[Skittles]

16. sociopath

piece of shit COWARD

[Feeling the Bern]

17. “If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study, obviously

I wouldn’t have taken it,”

No, shit for brains, you would have killed another lion. Why don't you put your gun up your ass, fire and shoot your brains out, so Hell can welcome you.

[Marty McGraw]

20. It sounds like you're holding back some..

Don't be Shy, just spill it out.



I think we all feel the same way, but you really have a way with words FtB!

[Feeling the Bern]

48. I have no tolerance for douchebags. This waste of bad period sex is King Douchebag.

[LuvNewcastle]

19. Lying liars will lie.

[Helen Borg]

21. Life will never be the same again for this guy...

[secondwind]

22. OH, PLEASE! Luring him out of a refuge? PLEASE!!

[Sunlei]

23. It is not hunting when one stakes out a pile of dead animals and waits for a target to arrive.

[7962]

35. Exactly.

[secondwind]

24. Didn't they remove the collar and throw it away? HE WAS THERE, HE SAW... HE KNEW n/t

[hollysmom]

54. I don't know if he was there,

from what I understand he gives the specs to the hunter and then sits around a lodge having fancy drinks and stuff, then they call them when they have the shot set up, he gets driven out to the site, takes his one shot, in this case a bow which only injured the cat (and he is claiming that is better) I suspect he uses a bow because it leaves less of a mark and he gets driven back while the guides hunt down the lion and prepare it for shipment. basically this guy is not a hunter, but someone who buys a prepared canned shot. i.e. why are these guys called hunters? beats me?

[swilton]

56. Being no hunter myself

but the bow and arrow is silent - therefore avoids the anti-poaching patrol....another hole in this Pinochio's story.

Cecil was pre-selected....this is how the safari guides make their money....The rumors about Palmer's life in Minnesota have promoted that Palmer keeps his trophies in a barn on his property and already had a place for this one....

Surprising that they have yet to find Cecil's head....

[trusty elf]

25. ....

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[Geronimoe]

27. If he knew it's name he would not have taken it

The dentist is a nut, What did he expect? The lion would say I'm Cecil don't kill me.

They shot it. Wounded it and tracked it for 40 hrs so he could kill it with his bow. This was in or near a national park and Cecil had a GPS tracking collar.

This isn't hunting and it sure isn't sport. Flying half way around the world so a guide can find and track an animal and the only thing he does is releases his weapon. Might as well kill lions at the family zoo.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

28. 'Nobody knew'

until after you shot him, went up to gloat, saw that it had a tracking collar, and STILL wanted the head and skin, rather than immediately contacting the authorities, you jackass.

[Gothmog]

29. Has this dentist surrendered to authorities yet?

He needs to be sent back to Africa to answer for his crimes

[Botany]

30. Palmer and his party knew exactly which lion they were going after.

[mdbl]

31. I hope this raised awareness if anything good can come of this

Hunting lions for sport is really stupid. The amount of space for big cats to live gets lower and lower. Why make it harder for them to survive by killing them for a rug? It's just plain ignorant and self-aggrandizing.

[LiberalElite]

38. Here's the governments' golden opportunity coming up

didn't they claim they couldn't find him? WELL Tomorrow is your lucky day!: "...intends to return to his suburban Minneapolis dental practice Tuesday. "

[samsingh]

39. we are pretty agitated at asshole murderers like him

I hope he's hounded away from the clinic. piece of shit killer.

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Why isn't this guy extradited and in jail?

[TexasBushwhacker]

42. Isn't it interesting that most states regulate or ban

the use of bait to hunt deer and other animals.

[L0oniX]

44. Send that fuck stick back to Zimbabwe.

[beac]

52. I hope we do.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/extradite-minnesotan-walter-james-palmer-face-justice-zimbabwe

[wordpix]

60. totally where he belongs - on a Zimbabwe adventure

you wanted it, buddy. Let's hope you get what you deserve.

[valerief]

45. He has it all wrong.

“If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study, obviously I wouldn’t have taken it,” Palmer said. “Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion.”

If he wasn't such asshole "look at my big dick" hunter, the important lion would still be alive.

[Geronimoe]

49. Little dick syndrome

The trophy hunters do try to compensate for being being short changed.

[valerief]

62. And before we both get beaten up here, the "dick" is a metaphor for a weak ego. nt

[n2doc]

46. Where's the head?

C'mon, Asshole, we all know you decapitated and skinned Cecil. Where did you hide the hide? I'll bet you are waiting until the heat dies down to put it in that trophy house you use to keep your other gruesome stuff.

[d_legendary1]

63. Probably the same place where

Geronimo's skull is.

[roody]

50. May he daily regret his murder.

I'm counting on Minnesota activists to give him hell anywhere he goes.

[RKP5637]

53. My gut feeling is this guy is a sociopath and this hasn't phased him one bit. He will do it again

and again, and shows absolutely no remorse. Phew, we would go nowhere near this guy for a dentist. Maybe his patients that supposedly miss him so much are all cut out of the same piece of cloth!

[Wabbajack_]

55. Foad, doctor

I hope your teeth rot out.

[swilton]

57. I raise the BS flag

[hamsterjill]

65. Yes, he's returning to work today - WITH a police escort.

Two things strike me as disgusting (along with everything else about this asshole):

(l) Taxpayers are paying for police protection for this idiot to return to work. If he can afford to pay $54,000 for a hunt (and he's paid much more than that), he can afford private security.

(2) In the Huffington Post interview he made references to how all of this has "disrupted his employees' lives". So, I'm guessing the asswipe wasn't paying his employees for the six weeks that HE made the decision to close the office. And again, if he can afford to pay upwards of $54,000 for a hunt, he can afford to pay his staff while his offices were closed.

In my humble opinion, ANYONE who would continue to work for this jerk after being furloughed for six weeks because of his disgusting actions AND anyone who would go to this jerk for dental work is a fool. I do realize that employees need their jobs, but would I hope any person who remains employed by Palmer is actively looking for different employment.

Here's the link to today's story:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dentist-walter-palmer-returns-work-police-escort-amid/story?id=33602439

[Arugula Latte]

68. This piece of shit is a slow learner.