They would be outside the crops. It happens all over the world. I know the ideas haven't been tried because there was no burning elephant dung in the picture, or chili peppers there. Those things keep elephants away. It was a weak effort on your part. I expected better out of you.
I'm in no position to comment on whether it was the right thing to shoot the elephant in order to save the crops. I mean, we aren't the African farmers who own the fields. Maybe these fields are the only supply of food and money for these people, and they probably don't have the money to relocate the elephant. But Parson is a real POS for acting like he's the hero in all of this. Let's be honest, he went there to satisfy his own perverted pleasure of murdering a large animal, not to help some random poor farmer save his field. The way he makes himself look like a hero is frucking disgusting. If he really cared, he would've put in the money to humanely relocate the elephant.
LMAO. Because you didn't see the burning dung in the picture? Can you tell me with certainty that it wasn't, say, behind the photographer? Or that the flames/smoke had already died down? Of course you cannot. You are posting based on a limited set of facts, and using your own bias to form your opinion, as I earlier stated.
The elephant came back. They don't do that when there are chili peppers there. IT doesn't come back for stuff it doesn't like. I can also see there wasn't an electric fence there. You just keep reaching in your weak effort to justify it.
I'm laughing hysterically at your attempted explanation. You're clearly talking out of your azz. You got caught, and can't dig yourself out. CHILI PEPPERS! What if they just played some "Californication", or "Under the bridge" -- would that have worked, since they probably don't like that? LMAO you simply are biased and don't have all the facts. GAME OVAH.
Well if tested practices is talking out of someone's azz, then you probably disagree with gravity, germ theory, and about every agricultural advance we've had in the past 200 years. Notice how once you are shown up, you try and change the subject to blow it off and be humorous but put up no logical argument, no evidence, and nothing relevant to back up your claim.
You could not prove that the tactics you suggested had not been tried. That's not changing the subject. You assumed that they hadn't been tried. Your facts are not enough to convince anyone.
FranchiseBlade doesn't care about poor black villagers. totally racist. Good job sticking up for them Tex. Frankly I love elephants, hate to see them in chains moving boulders. They are incredibly smart and family oriented. I saw something on animal planet were a calf was stuck in a hole and the older elephants went down in it and started digging out the sides to create a ramp to get her out. Cows can never do that.
Oh Good, Thank God the wonder twit cousin-****ers from Redneck USA came in here to set the record straight about racism in Africa... a subject they feel deeply about. So glad we have a conservative force in this forum rooted in the spirit of truth and civil debate rather than shallow minded lies and petty insults. Oh wait, you're both a couple of ****bags. Typical from these tea partying sister-lickers. I'd pay good money to see both of you publicly flogged by hard working Mexican immigrants.
this is something I pointed out earlier, I have not seen any reports of the local farmers being upset with his actions, and they are the only ones who know the severity of the situation, the people that seem to be b****ing are foreign PETA like groups who have no direct involvement in the situation The ONLY evidence of ANYTHING we have is on the video, you cannot just invent baseless claims as to what the locals have or haven't done, NONE of us were there, the only thing we have to base our opinions on is the video itself
The Real Story Behind Bob Parson’s Elephant-Killing “Safari” [PICS] Many of you were shocked by reports that GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons had killed an elephant. While we were rather surprised ourselves, we suspected that there was more to the story. After a conversation with Parsons, our suspicions have been verified: There are many shades of gray in the situation; and Parsons is hardly the black-hearted, endangered-animal-killing nut that PETA and others have made him out to be. “I’ve been going to Africa for six years,” he told us, “and I progressively became aware of the elephant situation and what a problem it is for the locals.” The “elephant situation,” as it turns out, has been a complicated one for local governments and wildlife officials for years. As humans in Zimbabwe struggled to find room to live and farm, they have appropriated land previously inhabited only by wildlife. This has set up a natural struggle between human needs and animal habits, where subsistence farmers battle wildlife such as elephants to keep their crops from being destroyed. The issue of human encroachment had driven several hundred of Zimbabwe’s 60,000 to 100,000 elephants out of the country by 2009, but Parsons says that in the country, elephants are still “very abundant” — at least according to the villagers whose livelihoods are threatened by elephant herds, which frequently come into a village and trample fields of corn and sorghum. “In Zimbabwe, the people there are incredibly impoverished,” said Parsons. “They treasure an empty plastic water bottle. It’s heart-wrenching to watch … These people are all subsistence farmers, and if they don’t have a good harvest, they starve. That’s it — there’s no support, there’s no welfare, and if they starve, they will die.” To keep elephants from trampling crops, villagers try building fires, banging drums, cracking whips and even building fences. But the light and noise are ignored, and the fences, Parson says, just get trampled. As for the idea of electric fences, Parsons asks the practical questions: Deep in the African bush, where will the electricity to power the fences come from? What contractors will build the fences, and who will pay for it? Electric fences aren’t a realistic solution — not now, at least. So Parsons is one of a few hunters who hopes to solve the crop-trampling problem for these villagers in a different way. What Really Happened to the Elephants When these hunters are called on for assistance, generally by locals whose fields are being destroyed by a herd of elephants, they have a careful plan in place. In these circumstances, hunters avoid shooting elephant cows because of the matriarchal structure of an elephant herd. “Taking a bull has little or no impact on the social structure or herd size,” said Parsons. “This farmer was desperate,” Parsons tells us of his most recent — and most controversial — trip to Africa. “He couldn’t get the herd out of his field. He asked us to come and deal with it.” As his party approached the sorghum field that night, Parsons said, “There was no moon, no stars; it was pitch dark. I couldn’t see three feet in front of me. We were moving though the field, and all we could do was use our hearing to find them. That took an hour and a half.” When the herd realized there were humans in the field about 15 yards away from them, Parsons said they turned to attack the group. At that point, the party turned on the lights they had available. “We picked out the largest bull,” Parsons says, “and we shot and killed it. The rest of the herd left and never came back.” The farmer was able to harvest what remained of his crop. The killed elephant was then used by the villagers in that area as a valuable source of protein, a practice that even the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has green-lit during times of economic hardship and hunger. The PETA Reaction Animal rights activists have taken a harsh tone toward Parsons’ actions, saying there are many other ways the elephants could have been removed from the fields. But as previously mentioned, Parsons says many of these methods have already been tried and have failed. “If you want to go and try to chase an elephant out of a field with a beehive, I’ll video it,” he quips. But Parsons doesn’t return the rancor of his critics. “These people look at this from the context of being Americans. We’re well-fed and isolated from the process of growing and butchering meat. We see this, and we’re horrified. Their hearts are in the right place, but they just don’t understand what’s going on over there.” Acknowledging that the situation is complicated, Parsons posed the difficult question, “If you had the choice to take a few elephants or to let people starve, what choice would you make?” Many have accused the CEO of gloating about his kill in a photograph of him with the dead bull elephant; Parsons said his attitude was far from arrogant at the time. “When you see me smiling in that picture, I’m smiling because I’m relieved no one was hurt, that the crop was saved, and that these people were going to be fed — the type of smile when you get a good report card or achieve a goal.” http://armedandloaded.com/the-real-story-behind-bob-parson’s-elephant-killing-“safari”-pics/
This article just completely PWN3D FranchiseBlade and exposed his clear bias for everybody to see. I'm sure he will respond with, "but the African starving people didn't try the bees and chili peppers first!! Shame on Parsons for trying to keep them alive by having a crop harvest!!"
