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Some people want to know why such a successful businessman would want to use his vacation time to shoot elephants.

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Originally posted by Frostbit:
You can go here and post a positive comment concerning his hunt in order to support his right to do so. I invited him to this thread in my comment.

Bob Parson's vblog comments


Thanks. Just left a comment.
He is doing a great job of handling the anti's that are posting there.

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Originally posted by VI-Shooter:
This guy completely deserves our support . . . I just wish he would not have surrendered to the compulsion to justify the hunt by saying that he was hunting problem elephants and that he was helping the locals. I would much rather he just say the hunts were legally permissible, conducted legally, and I killed the elephant because I wanted to.

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Originally posted by Pauly3511:
PETA is on this guys ass now like a hemorrhoid.

Heres a link to the letter PETA sent him, notice the phone number and e-mail of Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President of PETA on the bottom.

http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/ne..._peta_parson_TMZ.pdf

Hopefully she gets some kind e-mails and calls.

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Originally posted by Sherrill Philip Neese:
I work in the IT world. This is not a commercial, but I have used Go Daddy's products and services on multiple occasions and have highly recommended Go Daddy to numerous customers, colleagues, and friends. His products and services are top notch and he sells them for a great price. (Ignore the girls and the commercials, I don't know why he uses them anyway, as it detracts from the company's credibility.) The Go Daddy website is professional in both looks and use. If you try it, you'll like it.

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Originally posted by VI-Shooter:
This guy completely deserves our support . . . I just wish he would not have surrendered to the compulsion to justify the hunt by saying that he was hunting problem elephants and that he was helping the locals. I would much rather he just say the hunts were legally permissible, conducted legally, and I killed the elephant because I wanted to.

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Originally posted by lde:
Elephant Hunt Controversy Surrounds GoDaddy.com CEO

Five shots from the team lead by Parsons, and the bull elephant went down. Parsons later posed with the animal.

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Originally posted by jsl3170:
Body of text from an email I sent to Ms. Reiman this morning:

Dear Ms. Reiman,

As usual, PETA has aptly demonstrated its failure to see beyond its own nose concerning Go Daddy CEO Bob Parson's recent elephant hunt. Not everyone in the world views wilflife while wearing its Disney-issued Bambi goggles. In fact, in many African nations wildlife is expected to carry its own weight through human-managed herd population reduction which is largely funded with hunter dollars. However, when Kenya closed its borders to hunting in 1977 the wildlife populations largely crashed and have not recovered. Why do you suppose that is?

Elephants raid farm crops because they seek to eat. And elephants eat a lot on a daily basis. Yet, the facts of life are that someone wins and somene loses. I see no mention by you of the farmer winning, only the elephant. These hunts, if you want to call it that are known as PAC hunts which stands for Problem Animal Control hunt. The local Game Department had already made the decision to shoot at least one of the elephants so why not charge a higher price for a visiting hunter and bring in some much needed funds to the local game department so they may continue their good works, including hunting poachers which are a great threat to elephants everywhere on the continent of Africa.

And what of the local villagers who partook in the animal? Did they not receive protein needed for themselves and their children? Do you know how elephants die in the wild if they are not brought down by lions or hyenas to be eaten alive? They starve to death. Surely, you would rather the elephant die a quicker death by the hunter's bullet would you not? Afterall, your orgainzation is well-versed in death is it not with its high euthaninzation rate at its shelters for homeless animals every year?

At the end, your organization's practice of anthropomorphism does more to hurt animals than it does to help them. Perhaps you ought to orgainze a fact-finding mission to a remote part of an African nation where you can learn how life works rather than imagine how it works from the comfort of an urban office somewhere in America, far from the killing fields. Maybe then your organizaton's perspective may earn a shred of credibility with regard to the African elephant.


Good shooting,

J. LaCourse, Esq.

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Originally posted by jsl3170:
Body of text from an email I sent to Ms. Reiman this morning:

Dear Ms. Reiman,

As usual, PETA has aptly demonstrated its failure to see beyond its own nose concerning Go Daddy CEO Bob Parson's recent elephant hunt. Not everyone in the world views wilflife while wearing its Disney-issued Bambi goggles. In fact, in many African nations wildlife is expected to carry its own weight through human-managed herd population reduction which is largely funded with hunter dollars. However, when Kenya closed its borders to hunting in 1977 the wildlife populations largely crashed and have not recovered. Why do you suppose that is?

Elephants raid farm crops because they seek to eat. And elephants eat a lot on a daily basis. Yet, the facts of life are that someone wins and somene loses. I see no mention by you of the farmer winning, only the elephant. These hunts, if you want to call it that are known as PAC hunts which stands for Problem Animal Control hunt. The local Game Department had already made the decision to shoot at least one of the elephants so why not charge a higher price for a visiting hunter and bring in some much needed funds to the local game department so they may continue their good works, including hunting poachers which are a great threat to elephants everywhere on the continent of Africa.

And what of the local villagers who partook in the animal? Did they not receive protein needed for themselves and their children? Do you know how elephants die in the wild if they are not brought down by lions or hyenas to be eaten alive? They starve to death. Surely, you would rather the elephant die a quicker death by the hunter's bullet would you not? Afterall, your orgainzation is well-versed in death is it not with its high euthaninzation rate at its shelters for homeless animals every year?

At the end, your organization's practice of anthropomorphism does more to hurt animals than it does to help them. Perhaps you ought to orgainze a fact-finding mission to a remote part of an African nation where you can learn how life works rather than imagine how it works from the comfort of an urban office somewhere in America, far from the killing fields. Maybe then your organizaton's perspective may earn a shred of credibility with regard to the African elephant.


Good shooting,

J. LaCourse, Esq.

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Originally posted by Acer:
Watched an interview on Piers Morgan's talk show regarding Mr. Parson's hunt. The bunny hugger presenting the anti-hunter viewpoint (don't remember HSUS? PETA?) said fencing would keep elephants out of crops and was a good non-lethal alternative...

Guess he figured the locals would toodle down to the nearest Tractor Supply and plunk down their lifetime earnings of the entire village, er ah province, to purchase supplies (a generator, transformer and cable perhaps?) to make it happen. I'm sure PETA wouldn't approve of electric fence - only passive fencing that is non-injurious.

But I'm sure PETA is Johnnie-on-the-spot to provide these things to protect the elephant. Nah, just deluded windbags.

Wish these folks would hop a plane and see some reality up close and personal...

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Originally posted by Indy:

I agree. I once had a "chinless wonder" ask, in astonishment, how I could shoot an elephant. I replied that they don't fall down unless you shoot them.