Community | October 29, 2009 | 10 comments

Resturant critic shoots baboon, to see what it was like

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/aa-gill-shot-baboon

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Animal welfare groups voiced outrage today after the restaurant critic AA Gill said he shot a baboon on safari "to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone".

In a Sunday Times column, Gill recounted in detail how he shot the creature from 250 yards while hunting in "a truck full of guns and other blokes" in Tanzania. He said he felt the urge to be "a recreational primate killer" before shooting the animal through the lung.

what a tosser, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/26/aa-gill-shot-baboon
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10 comments // Resturant critic shoots baboon, to see what it was like

  • sophosthegreat
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      sophosthegreat  

    • Its not the act itself which I find so loathesome, I eat meat and knwo where it comes from, its his reasoning behind it. Knowing what it feels like to kill someone, thats just weird.

    • 2 years ago
  • curtisreed
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    • sophosthegreat:

      yes sophos, you hit it on the head. it suggests there is a sociopathic or even psychopathic streak running through this guy.

      just like how in the history of many serial killers they went through a cruelty to animals phase...

      According to a 1997 study done by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Northeastern University, animal abusers are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against people and four times more likely to commit property crimes than are individuals without a history of animal abuse.

      Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 25 years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. The FBI has recognized the connection since the 1970s, when its analysis of the lives of serial killers suggested that most had killed or tortured animals as children. Other research has shown consistent patterns of animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of violence, including child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse. In fact, the American Psychiatric Association considers animal cruelty one of the diagnostic criteria of conduct disorder.

      If you break it down to its bare essentials:
      "Abusing an animal is a way for a human to find power/joy/fulfillment through the torture of a victim they know cannot defend itself."

      Now break down a human crime, say rape. If we substitute a few pronouns, it's the SAME THING.
      "Rape is a way for a human to find power/joy/fulfillment through the torture of a victim they know cannot defend themselves."

      Now try it with, say, domestic abuse such as child abuse or spousal abuse:
      "Child abuse is a way for a human to find power/joy/fulfillment through the torture of a victim they know cannot defend themselves."

      Do you see the pattern here?

      http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/abuse_connection.php

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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    • Why doesn't he sign up for the military, if he really wants to know what it's like.

      He would also know the feeling of being hunted too.

    • 2 years ago
  • ThoughtNu
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      ThoughtNu  

    • yeah , ignore the other body parts being prepared in the kitchen or how those meats lived or were killed. Dead is dead, eat up?

    • 2 years ago
  • coconutjackson
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      coconutjackson  

    • that is so cruel. people should not be allowed to go to some of the african countries and destroy some of its heritage, that mainly being wildlife; let alone killing the animal for fun. tanzanian government should not allow him to go back there. shame on him!

    • 2 years ago
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  • curtisreed
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      curtisreed  
    • coconutjackson:

      "people should not be allowed to go to some of the african countries and destroy some of its heritage" but some should be allowed to go to some others and destroy some of their heritage. that's ok.

      i don't know, pointless smart ass reply, just thought your sentence was slightly...odd

    • 2 years ago
  • animalia_libero
  • stupidy
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      stupidy  
    • animalia_libero:

      cos he shot it to see what it would be like to kill a human

      Gill admitted he had no good reason for killing the animal. "I know perfectly well there is absolutely no excuse for this," he wrote. "There is no mitigation. Baboon isn't good to eat, unless you're a leopard. The feeble argument of culling and control is much the same as for foxes: a veil for naughty fun. I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger. You see it in all those films: guns and bodies, barely a close-up of reflection or doubt. What does it really feel like to shoot someone, or someone's close relative?"

      Not for food, for fun. Then thought it was clever to publish his adventure.

      Thats why he is a tosser.

    • 2 years ago
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