Found this story on-line this morning.

Stampede for zebra meat
HARARE - Hard-pressed Zimbabweans last week stampeded to have a chunk of zebra meat after the animal which had strayed from a farm on the outskirts of the city was knocked down by a car in the leafy suburb of Mabelreign.
The residents only fled the scene after the police and officials from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority arrived.
A spokesman for the National Parks and Wildlife, Edward Mbewe, confirmed the incident saying they had seized part of the beast.
"We understand the zebra strayed from one Motsi's plot in the neighbourhood. The guy has about 70 zebras he keeps on his plot," said Mbewe.
With a kilogramme of low grade beef now costing about Z$1 500 (revalued), the zebra meat was like the Biblical "manna from heaven" for the residents.
High beef prices have pushed the commodity beyond the reach of most Zimbabweans who are grappling with a severe economic crisis most critics blame on President Robert Mugabe's policies. - ZimOnline

To me this is not news of any significance. In any poor country of the world the meat would have been taken just as quickly.

Had it been a beer truck that overturned it would have been stripped even quicker. In Venezuela at the scene of a car accident with fatalities people dash in and strip watches, wallets, purses, and anything else of value.

It must have been a slow day for news in Zimbabwe.

I knew things were getting pretty bad in Zim, but I did not realize that road kill would cause a stampede to just get the meat. The story just helped me to open my eyes.

It's such a sad story in so many ways. It's even more sad that it's repeated with minor variations around the world a thousand times each day.

Given the repeated failure of collectivist economics, when will the masses reject Socialism and embrace the one true hope of plenty, Capitalism?

I genuinely believe that 85% of human misery is self-inflicted. Until we reject the economic theories of envy, this will continue unabated.

If this story doesn't make you mad or sad, it should.

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AMEN

When I shot my first elephant, it took a while for the recovery crew to cut a road into where the elephant was. The adreneline had worn off, the awe was fading and I was beginning the think of the death of this incerdible animal. About then the 13 or 14 members of the recovery crew show up and they are singing and joking and jovial as all get out. They come up to me and the PH in twos and threes shake my hand and slap me on the back and offering congratulations in Shona.

I asked the PH what was up and he said, "MEAT."

The scene was replayed when I shot my second elephant in a different area about a week later.

JPK

There is nothing like the gratitued of protein starved individuals.

When semi-starving people are told the merits of wildlife protection and management it really does fall on deaf ears. This situation does not bode well for wildlife in Zimbabwe if it continues.

My buff in Zim last year was butchered down to the dung and the blood in the ground by barefooted villagers who hiked many miles for the meat. Two women were nursing babies. They were at the same time very grateful and somewhat shy and colorful individuals and yet fussing amongst themselves about the portions to be allotted. What a compelling sight and have some 1 minute videos of the event from my point-n-shoot.

I have witnessed the butchering of 3 big elephant bulls in Moz and the Caprivi. As long as the PH and I are present, things proceed in an essentially orderly controlled fashion. As soon as we begin to leave, the process begins to break down into a mob scene. I guess its just like children's behavior with and without parental presence.

Hell,

We acted in a similar fashion in college when we got wind of a road kill deer within close driving distance.

Destitute and short on protein rations, especially in the last week of the month before the G.I. bill check came on the first .

LD