Rhino shot dead by poachers at French zoo

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Poachers have broken into a French zoo, killing a four-year-old white rhinoceros and sawing off its horn.

Keepers found the dead animal, named Vince, in the African enclosure of the zoo at Thoiry, west of Paris, on Tuesday morning. It had been shot in the head and its large horn removed with a chainsaw.

The poachers fled before they could remove the animal’s second horn, either because they were disturbed or because their equipment failed, police said.

Authorities described the incident as the first of its kind in Europe.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/07/rhino-shot-dead-by-poachers-at-french-zoo

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Fucking poachers. Fucking folk 'medicine'. Fucking humans.

[Initech]

1. Poachers are seriously disgusting human beings. Fuck them.

[Blue_Tires]

22. +1

[MBS]

2. Disgusting and tragic.

Poachers, especially poachers of endangered animals, are the lowest form of human being.

[LOL Lib]

3. Are we sure the poachers weren't Uday and Qusay Trump?

They have killed just about every large animal known to man.

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[packman]

4. Well, not EVERY large animal known to man - yet

[MFM008]

7. that

Would be hitting the broad-assed side of a barn.

[LOL Lib]

8. Nice!!!

I recognize this species. It's called the Florida Swamp Donkey, often seen grazing on golf courses and rubbing it's bulbous behind on the carpet of gilded buildings in South Florida.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Amazing. n/t

[Loryn]

5. Evil

Disgusting....

Words fail me.

[MFM008]

6. They need armed

Guards with shoot to kill orders.
Fear is the only way to protect the big 5.

[7962]

9. I'm so sick of these bastards. Punishment needs to be deadly.

make the price too high to pay dammit

[Judi Lynn]

10. There should be a requirement that before zoos take animals from their native homes

they must guarantee to keep them safe in their artificial environment, safe from human barbarism, and hatred.

[EL34x4]

19. I think it was pretty much expected...

...that animals weren't going to be poached in Western zoos.

Until now.

[Judi Lynn]

20. I would include other acts of malicious cruelty from zoo patrons who attack the animals. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

12. Hope the authorities will spend the time needed to find these monsters. n/t

[Coventina]

13. I hate my species.

[Calista241]

14. Just sickening. Vive Vince! n/t

[Solly Mack]

15. What you said below the line.

I agree.

[progressoid]

16. wtf?

[hunter]

17. I'll probably go to hell for saying this...

... but if these criminals happen to be killed in a police shoot-out or high speed car chase I hope good use is made of their transplantable organs and other body parts.

France is, after all, an opt-out rather than opt-in organ donor state.

[Metsie Casey]

18. I hope they find the poachers

And chop them up with chainsaws.

[Sunlei]

21. a city zoo. Surely some street camera shows people entering a zoo at night

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. ;(

I hate people. I'm really sick of our species. Our numbers continually rise, and we destroy everything in our path.

[zonkers]

24. It is zoo's fault. When you take responsibility for a life, you better take responsibility

for a life.