GoDaddy.com founder criticized for elephant-hunting video

[bigworld]

Source: KVOA / CNN

(CNN) -- The CEO of GoDaddy.com is under fire for an online video that shows him shooting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe.

Bob Parsons, founder of the Scottsdale, Arizona-based web-hosting service, posted the graphic video on his Twitter account on March 14. The footage, shot March 8, shows him hunting an elephant on a farm and posing with a shotgun beside its corpse.

Then, it shows locals crowding around the dead animal and cutting off pieces of its meat.

Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has initiated an online boycott of GoDaddy.com and its services until Parsons "stops shooting animals," according to the organization's website.

Parsons' own website has also been inundated by negative comments protesting the video.

Read more: http://www.kvoa.com/news/godaddy-com-founder-criticized-for-elephant-hunting-video/

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What an arrogant ass he is.

[wtmusic]

1. Another reason to bail on that sexist egomaniac's company

What a POS.

[earthbone]

16. I,m with you,

Godaddy is a big sponsor of auto racing.I will not watch the Indy 500 this year although i have not missed it for the last 30.The elephants life means alot more to me.What other godaddy crap can we boycott ?

[RebelOne]

2. A real scumbag n/t

[alp227]

3. PETA=emotional thinkers

According to CNN.com the CEO says that it was for food not for sport: "Parsons said he killed the animal for the good of local farmers whose crops are often destroyed by elephants. The video shows him walking through a field of flattened sorghum plants, which he said had been crushed by roaming elephants."

[HankyDubs]

5. it always amuses me...

...when people are written off as "emotional." I'm no particular fan of PETA, but I'm also not a fan of this kinda horsecrap either.

Maybe it ould be better if we expereinced no emotions whatsoever, we could all be robotic and aloof and everything would be just perfect. It also seems to me that it would be a little more honest of you to use a term like "hysterical," rather than "emotional" because that gets across the sexist subtext a bit more clearly.

"According to CNN.com the CEO says that it was for food not for sport"

Watch the video trophy he made for himself (if you can stomach it). Sport.

[bigworld]

7. PETA should stay out of this

The guy's an arrogant, entitled ass; I don't need PETA to tell me that my $$ shouldn't be supporting him.

[HankyDubs]

9. yeah PETA has no right

to express views about cruelty to animals.

and another thing. If you look at the size of the elephant that he killed, and you know that elephant families are matriarchal since most bulls leave the family when they reach adulthood--it is entirely possible that he killed this elephant family's matriarch. The matriarchs are critical to the survival of the family, passing down the knowledge they have about where to find water in the dry season, how to raise their young properly, etc etc etc.

[go west young man]

11. Do you seriously think you would have heard of this story

had it not been for PETA? The MSM would never have covered it otherwise. What do you think PETA stand for? I'm curious.

[devilgrrl]

10. BFD, the guy is still a pussy

:popcorn:

[jdlh8894]

4. How do you take down an elephant

with a shotgun??

[MilesColtrane]

13. Maybe using a slug with a rifled barrel at close range

The slug would have to be pretty dense and have a conical point to achieve sufficient penetration.

[RebelOne]

23. Ever heard of an elephant gun. n/t

[jdlh8894]

24. The OP says he was posing w/a shotgun.

Read much?

[Paladin]

25. 12 Gauge Shotgun Or .458 Winchester Rifle......

....it doesn't have fuck-all to do with the action or the criticism rightfully directed at it. Not even a good try on your part.......

[Peregrine Took]

6. I always hated their moronic Super Bowl ads - dumbest of all of them

and that's going some.

A pox on his house.

[Auggie]

8. Anyone have suggestions for other hosting companies?

Must be very user-friendly with good tech support

:dunce:

[jberryhill]

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[wtmusic]

18. Thanks! Good info. nt

[hugo_from_TN]

12. How dare he kill an elephant for food!

He should only be killing cows, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, snakes, bison, alligators, and anything that swims!


Go Veg.

[Beavker]

15. As Soon as this wealthy, white, US citizen

can successfully breed a several hundred head herd of Elephants, then he can eat them for meat.

He gets off on it and you know it. I'm guessign this rich, white, CEO from Scottsdale, probably has a lot of dead things on this walls.

Shortsighed comment.

[4saken]

19. Umm the Elephant gestation period is the longest of any land animal... n/t

[wtmusic]

20. Cows are an endangered species?

I'll be damned. :eyes:

[conspirator]

17. Fuck this prick. Who do he think he is? RICHARD BRANSON? nt

[onehandle]

21. Mother Fucker! I have Six Domains about to expire within weeks.

Goodbye, prick.

'Anticipating a backlash, GoDaddy competitor NameCheap.com has already swooped in. The company is running a transfer from GoDaddy to Namecheap.com for .com, .net and .org domains for $4.99 with 20% of the proceeds going to SaveTheElephants.com. For its part, GoDaddy has yet to address the issue on its company blog. Reps from the company could not be reached for comment.'

http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant

[wtmusic]

22. Any idea what service is like at Namecheap? nt

[onehandle]

26. Looked around the Internet and see mostly positive comments.

I just transferred my domains and it went smoothly.

Started a thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x792224