Celebrated hunter crushed to death by baby elephant

[Egnever]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046075/Celebrated-hunter-crushed-death-baby-elephant-tried-measure-ivory-U-S-client.html

A celebrated Texas-born hunter was crushed to death by a baby elephant in Zimbabwe as he tried to measure its ivory tusks for an American client.

Ian Gibson, 55, was a lauded figure among U.S. safari enthusiasts, who would commission him to slaughter prized animals near his home in South Africa.

On Wednesday, he was tentatively approaching the young bull elephant in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley when the animal charged, and knelt on Gibson until he died.

[HERVEPA]

1. That's a shame

[cpwm17]

3. Yep

[yeoman6987]

26. RIP. Horrible for the loved ones.

[Maru Kitteh]

37. . . . of the elephants he murdered

[yeoman6987]

48. I don't belittle the death of a human being no matter what they have done.

It will never happen in a million years for me.

[atreides1]

51. Good for you

But this man wasn't human...he murdered animals for sport! That in itself shows his complete lack of humanity!!!

[hobbit709]

58. That idiot brought it upon himself.

There's a big difference between hunting for food and hunting for trophies.

[chalmers]

61. Hitler?

What about Hitler?

[LanternWaste]

63. While yet others won't belittle the deaths of endangered animals killed for mere sport..

While yet others won't belittle the deaths of endangered animals killed for mere sport... no matter what they have done, either.

[Arugula Latte]

2. I hope someone turned Ian's teeth into a fan or a piano key.

[Journeyman]

6. Touché . . .

[Egnever]

7. !!

[TimeToEvolve]

82. ..or the world's smallest violin.

[delete_bush]

92. +1,000 !!!

[PSPS]

4. "as he tried to measure its ivory tusks for an American client"

So, in other words, the elephants won this round and this guy now resides where he belongs.

[bvf]

16. It's just a shame his client didn't go with him. n/t

[2naSalit]

32. [phone]

[Judi Lynn]

45. Absolutely right. n/t

[leftofcool]

5. I'm siding with Baby E here!

Sometimes paybacks just suck!

[Logical]

8. Can anyone give me any reason why I should feel bad for this guy?? nt

[leftofcool]

9. No, nada, none!

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. I can't.

[rpannier]

31. I have none

But, I'm sure someone will show up to admonish people for grave dancing.
That thbe guy was human being and so on

[2naSalit]

33. ...

guy was human being

Just barley, and it was purely biological and nothing more.

Obviously the elephant knew what he was about. They know far more than most credit them.

Karma.

[msanthrope]

47. You have a rye sense of humor. nt

[GoneOffShore]

94. And the pastrami helps as well.

Wry vs rye

[2naSalit]

105. See response to comment above...

Just got back from my 40 mile drive in a blizzard, had to help a friend and ended up sleeping on the sofa and now look what happened!

[2naSalit]

104. It gets even better

when my fingers can spell, no?



Good catch, I was in a hurry to go drive 40 miles in a blizzard, wasn't fully concentrating!

[Xolodno]

67. Actually....

....uhm...no, I got nothing.

[restorefreedom]

77. i got nuthin for him.

if his family is not sociopathic like him, i feel bad for them in their grief of their relative.

as i feel bad for the millions of slaughtered elephants and THEIR loved ones in their grief.

[nomorenomore08]

97. Not mutually exclusive. Precisely. n/t

[LeftyMom]

10. What a terrible tragedy.

I hope that poor calf didn't bruise his poor little knees.

[Tess49]

12. I know! Poor baby!! n/t

[spooky3]

11. Justice.

[beam me up scottie]

13. Unfortunately the animal will be slaughtered anyway.

But at least he took out one trophy hunter before that happens.

[Tommy2Tone]

14. Say nothing but good about he dead!

He's dead - Good!

[JudyM]

22. Moms Mabley, right? Nt

[Tommy2Tone]

64. Yes indeed..

Another one of my favorites from her.

An old man went to a funeral. The preacher asked him "sir how old are you?" The old man responded "I am 87 years old." The preacher then said "there's no need of you going home."

Badda Bing

[JudyM]

91. Ha. Yeah that "he dead, good" is one my dad loves to tell. Amazing, he told it again tonight! Nt

[kath]

15. YAY, elephant!

Way to go.

[Rex]

17. I tell ya, there are a lot of ways I would not want to die and being crushed to death is way

up there in the top 3.

[HassleCat]

18. The elephant said...

"As long as you're estimating the size of my tusks. guess how much I weigh. What's that? Can't hear you. All I'm getting is some wheezing. Can you speak up?"

[catnhatnh]

20. Think of the hubris involved...

...in walking up to a living animal to measure if it is big enough to kill.

[JudyM]

24. Agreed. And it's done on farms all the time. And much worse than that. Nt

[a2liberal]

40. +1000 (nt)

[pa28]

21. Now I'm worried about the elephant.

I'm guessing it will be targeted.

[TipTok]

23. I don't believe in Karma as an external force...

... but I do get a warm fuzzy from stuff like this.

[840high]

25. Is the elephant ok???

[angrychair]

27. Hmmm

Do I care that he is dead? No.

[StevieM]

28. Iggo....are you here? I am waiting for your patented reply!! (eom)

[Iggo]

35. GO Elephants! Beat the Hunters!

If hunting's a sport, I get to pick which team I root for.

[StevieM]

62. I was wondering if you would show.

Sometimes people go inactive on DU and they miss a thread that was tailor made for them.

But according to your profile you have 30,000 posts since 2007. So I should have known better.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

29. Well done that baby elephant.

Crush the shit out of them killers.

[DreamGypsy]

30. Damn. If I were a baby elephant...

...I wouldn't want this up on the wall:



The Dave Mallett song, You Say That The Battle is Over

With the wild in their eye
It is they who must die
And it is we who must measure the loss..

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. ...

[RandySF]

36. I feel bad

That the elephant had to see that POS before he ran him over.

[rjsquirrel]

38. April news?

Nice story that was all over the web 7 months back.

[Judi Lynn]

46. Late Breaking News is another forum. We like this thread. This is the forum for it. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

39. Barely one step above shooting a caged animal.

That's not hunting.

[arthritisR_US]

41. I hope the elephant wasn't hurt in this. nt

[dhill926]

42. uh yeah...that's just too bad....

[MrScorpio]

43. Some days you git the bar, other days the bar gits you nt

[Fearless]

44. Fuck him

[malaise]

49. My only regret is that the baby elephant

didn't take a selfie...and caption it - for all the elephants you killed for sport.
Freaking perfect.

[Inkfreak]

50. Not a pleasant way to die.

But hey, sime people in this thread are certainly pleased.

[Crunchy Frog]

70. Not like he was asking for it or anything.

If you don't want to get squashed by an elephant, don't go up to it to measure it for the slaughter. Fairly basic common sense.

[Inkfreak]

74. The question of hunting aside. Laughing at his death is gross.

But some may like this sorta thing.

[Crunchy Frog]

78. slaughtering elephants is gross.

Slaughtering tame elephants is putrid.

Feeling sorry for "teh poor hunter", laughable. There are so many people so much more deserving of sympathy.

JMHO.

[Inkfreak]

79. Well, I'll just check with you in the future to see who deserves what.

I'm sure you're contempt for him is comforting for his family, too.

[TimeToEvolve]

81. a certain subculture of humans only exists to make the Earth shittier for all the other people.

the reactionary, dominator alpha-male culture is killing the planet and all other forms of life for its own shallow utility; all without a hint of scruples or empathy of those affected.

to see these dominators eat it when they finally reap the negative karma they willfully sowed should not evoke sympathy, but celebration; always curb your empathy when dealing with a sociopath.

[Inkfreak]

83. bullshit of the highest order.

Sociopath. Like celebrating someone's death??

[darkangel218]

89. Whoa!

So you're defending poaching?

[Inkfreak]

95. Whoa! Finding a mans death sad is not defending poaching.

Get outta here with that silly ass shit. I find the cheering of his death gross. ymmv.

[darkangel218]

98. That said man went out to kill a baby elephant.

You're missing the key part of why people react the way they do in this thread.

[Miles Archer]

52. I think I'll let Curly Bill deliver the eulogy

[madokie]

53. Good fucking riddence

[RedCappedBandit]

54. An elephant's life is worth far more than his.

[Inkfreak]

75. What's worth more than yours?

Or do we let's others assign this?

[RedCappedBandit]

86. Elephants are endangered. This was a human needlessly killing elephants.

Might be difficult for you to understand, but this isn't complicated.

[darkangel218]

90. +1

Thank you.

[dorkzilla]

55. Team Elephant!!!

Yay for the elephant! Measuring the little guy's tusks? Such a great ending to this story.

[CharlotteVale]

56. Good. One less asshole in the world.

[Orrex]

57. I heard that he enjoyed squash and lived in a sprawling flat

[NaturalHigh]

59. I hope the little elephant wasn't hurt.

[OregonBlue]

60. Divine Justice.

[ohheckyeah]

65. See my user name for how I feel abut this.

[joeybee12]

66. I remember the nuns telling us all lives mattered that all of us were here for a reason...

I no longer believe that...clearly some people do more harm than good on the planet...and clearly some elephants were put here for a reason.

[TeamPooka]

69. I'm with you on this. nt

[joeybee12]

71. Hard not to think otherwise after living through George W. Bush...nt

[Crunchy Frog]

68. RIP

to all the elephants that he's slaughtered. I guess once in awhile, there's a little justice in the world.

Just kind of wondering what sort of elephant lets someone measure its tusks. I'm guessing this is a canned hunt of semi tame animals. Disgusting.

[KamaAina]

72. Roll Tide!

[TeeYiYi]

73. That works for me...

...and the elephants.

TYY

[restorefreedom]

76. maybe the other sociopathic murderer,

also known as the "client", will think twice...

elephants 1
murdering scumbag humans 0

and no i am not celebrating a human death, i am celebrating the survival of a beautiful sentient creature. the fact that baby had to kill in self defense was the result of a HUMAN decision.

[darkangel218]

99. +1 million

Well said.

[TimeToEvolve]

84. good..

works for me..
one less cowardly poacher instead of one less endangered elephant.

[Faux pas]

85. Karma

[avebury]

87. I have zero sympathy for this low life.

He made his living slaughtering innocent animals all in the name of the all might dollar. He was part of the problem of the human race driving more and more species into extinction. Karma came a calling.

They only thing that would have made it better would have been if the Amereican who was paying for the guy to slaughter him a trouphy wasn't taken out by the elephant as well.

When it comes to big game trophy hunting my sympathy will always be on the side of the animals.

[niyad]

88. this happened in april.

[Coventina]

93. That makes my heart smile!

[nomorenomore08]

96. Guy was an asshole, but I wouldn't go so far as to say he "deserved" this.

Rather, I just see it as nature doing its thing - this time the prey survived, while the predator didn't.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

100. Baby elephants have tusks?

It seems that tusks would get in the way of birth and nursing.

Anyone know the age when tusks erupt?

Anyway, Ian Gibson's head will look great stuffed and mounted on an elephant's wall.

[liberal N proud]

101. I see it now - his head is mounted on a board in the elephants den

[LuvNewcastle]

102. The circle of life

[Photographer]

103. ...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

106. Was he going to eat the tusks?