Saturday, August 1, 2015

"Cecil the lion's brother Jericho shot dead by poachers in Zimbabwean park"

"Johnny Rodrigues, Chairman for Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement: 'It is with great sadness and regret that we report that Jericho was shot dead at 4pm this afternoon."

'We have no further details but will advise as soon as we know more.'

 
When it rains...

UPDATE: CNN now says Jericho might not be dead after all... Link

UPDATE 2: CNN Confirmed: Jericho the lion is alive... Link

20 comments:

Leland said...

OMG, a world tragedy. Will they dismember the body and sell off the parts as trophies, or will they use the flesh tissue to make other lions more healthy and thus make it ok to have killed the lion? What's a lion worth these days? A Lambo? Or can it fetch a Veyron?

Rabel said...

In other saddening news, Rowdy Roddy Piper has finally run out of bubble gum. RIP

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

What I'm perplexed over is how could Obama not have protected Cecil's brother?

Obama doesn't care about lion people.

chickelit said...

Prediction: no outrage because the poachers weren't white.

edutcher said...

So when is Rev Al flying over there to start a riot for #BlackLionsMatter?

Dad Bones said...

What we will never hear about are the hundreds of people who are attacked and often killed and eaten each year in Africa by lions and tigers.

Peter Capstick has written several books on hunting African big game. He was sometimes called when a renegade lion was killing villagers. The lion would break into whatever kind of flimsy sleeping quarters the people could construct and grab the victims by the head killing them instantly by crushing skull and vertebrae and drag them off, by the head, to a spot where he or she could enjoy dining without being annoyed by frantically screaming people.

Titus said...

Nooooooooooo!

Fortunately, my back has been completely waxed though.

Thanks Stephan from John Delaria!

Trooper York said...

"grab the victims by the head killing them instantly by crushing skull and vertebrae and drag them off"

Hey why don't they give them jobs at Planned Parenthood. Then nobody could touch them.

Titus said...

Please, if men had to carry babies for 9 months, they would lift their leg in a dumpster and pinch the thing out and then head to the game.

And what about if men had periods? They would be sticking socks in their cunt to stop the flow.

tits.

Rabel said...

Jericho is currently tweeting out Mark Twain quotations.

ampersand said...

If men were having babies,they would be women.

Men do have periods, in Hockey.

If your old man had any sense of premonition he would have been celibate.

Now stick a sock in it.

Chip Ahoy said...

Asian, the name of the creator and ruler of Narnia takes the form of a lion and so in Narnia all lions are treated with the same due special respect. I have this in pop-up book form but this point is not made clear. It's a very good book and you should buy it. None of the lions in Narnia have names except for that one single stone lion in the courtyard of Jadis. (Asian is not really a lion) The one that was restored to life by Asian who went around saying, "Did you hear that? He said, US lions. That means him and me. US lions. That's what I like about Asian. And he kept banging on like that until Asian loaded him up with rabbits, dwarves and a hedgehog and carry them all into battle which worked to keep the beast focused.

The moral from Narnia for Earth is an effrontery to one lion is effrontery to all lions because one of them could be the creator of the place or they might possibly be recently restored from stone and still a bit wobbly.

AllenS said...

How many of these lions kill black Africans every year? How about those big assed elephants?

How does the average black villager look at this?

ndspinelli said...

Darren Wilson was the shooter.

ampersand said...

How does the average black villager look at this?

The average black villager ,mostly from Nigeria, are preoccupied finding help in getting their uncle,the general or president's, millions out of the country. Will you help?

rcocean said...

When informed of his death, Sam and Phil Zebra expressed their regrets.

Then laughed and ran away, kicking their heels in delight.

rcocean said...

I've heard that Cecil's Cousin "Winston" is still alive. I suggest we save him and transport him to Central Park, where he could live unmolested and free.

People could pet him and provide him with an occasional tasty repast.

bagoh20 said...

The scientific consensus is that if a Republican wins the Presidency that lions will go extinct within 2 years. Top scientists, studies show, etc.

bagoh20 said...

No truly sexy man or girly man gets his back waxed unless he lives in a trailer next to a sewage plant. Laser treatment: three sessions, a few hundred bucks and smooth as a baby forever more. Don't be so cheap, trailer park boy.

Dad Bones said...

I suppose an old guy could get an "I Bleed For Cecil" t-shirt and go to an animal rights gathering and get lucky. I'd rather do it the easy way and wait for the phone to ring. Lord knows I haven't got much to brag about but finding women gets easier all the time. If I'd known all I had to do was get older and uglier (and keep laughing at myself) I could have got started a long time ago.

And it doesn't hurt that the competition is dying off.