South African reserve’s last rhino butchered for her horn

[The Straight Story]

South African reserve’s last rhino butchered for her horn

Poachers have butchered the last adult rhinoceros at a South African game reserve, cutting off her horn and letting her bleed to death, the chief game ranger says.

“We’ve had rhinos here for 20 years,” Japie Mostert told the Star on Thursday from the Krugersdorp Game Reserve, 60 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg. “She was the last one.”

The nine-year-old rhino at the 1,400-hectare reserve was likely attacked by poachers who hovered in a helicopter, shot her with a tranquillizer dart then leapt out and sliced her horn off with a chainsaw, Mostert said.

“The whole operation would take seven to 10 minutes.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/844335--south-african-reserve-s-last-rhino-butchered-for-her-horn?bn=1

[Xipe Totec]

1. I guess they won't be doing that again

Idiots.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Now what will they be doing to get a hard-on? Sigh. nt

[Booster]

7. Stupid shits. Your post reminds me of a conversation I just had

with a friend of mine who's Chinese. I had read that when the Chinese come to the U.S. they are expected to take gifts back that are made in the U.S. Since we make very little anymore, I asked my friend what in the world do people expect as a gift, and she said "viagra". How embarrassing is that for the U.S.?

[Curmudgeoness]

8. Viagra may just be the saving grace of rhinos, tigers, etc.

I am sure that it works better.

[undeterred]

3. Same practice has decimated the African elephant population.

Shoot the animal, hack off the ivory tusks, and leave it to die.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Where was Sarah Palin yesterday?

[glinda]

5. I really can't understand why people are so g damned stupid.

[NCarolinawoman]

6. Gee, what a great job that country did preserving those animals!

Idiots.

Guess I was wrong when I thought the invention of viagra would put an end to this barbaric practice.

Someone needs to hunt down the poachers by offering a reward, (wouldn't take much) and then find the ignorant unmanly impotent creeps who purchase this stuff for virility. March the poachers and their customers down the street, make a mockery of them, and cart them off to prison. :mad:

[whyverne]

9. Inject poison into the horns.

or at least tell everybody you did.

[applegrove]

10. Somewhere in South Africa they are claiming they have poisoned some horns on live animals. I hope

the rumour works its way to China.

[budkin]

11. I'd like to cut off their penises... but not while they were tranquilized

[pipi_k]

12. There are times when I totally detest the human species

and this is one of them.

[liberalla]

13. This kind of stuff makes me so, so sad, and so mad

How cruel, selfish, short-sighted, stupid...

I hope she died quickly, before the drug wore off.

That picture at the link is heartbreaking.

[proteus_lives]

14. Very sad.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. "But why don't you care about PEOPLE?!!?"

For the record I DO care about people.... but it's this kind of thing that drives home the point that humans are not automatically anything special.