Ricky Gervais tweeted a photo of Utah hunter Rebecca Francis posing with the giraffe she shot and it's gone viral.
What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling? pic.twitter.com/DyYw1T5ck2
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) April 13, 2015
This story makes me want to crawl under a blanket with a bowl of kettle corn and never come out.
Rebecca Francis is a sometimes TV personality and hunter. She won Extreme Huntress and once co-hosted another show, Eye of the Hunter. It's not that surprising that she's in the news for killing an animal, but in this instance it's a bull giraffe. Ricky Gervais tweeted the above and the Internet is in a fury over this lady grinning like an idiot next to a dead animal known mostly for eating very high up leaves.
Francis defended her kill, obviously:
We just connected with Rebecca Francis and got a statement on her Giraffe hunt that anti-hunters are attacking her for. ...
Posted by HuntingLife.com on Tuesday, April 14, 2015
I'd respect her more if she just said, "I like killing things, I don't regret killing things for a moment."
Putting an old sick giraffe down, if that is what's happening, seems a lot like euthanizing a sick cat or dog. Necessary, but sad. I wouldn't lay down next to a dead cat's corpse and smile at the camera.
Since this post went up, folks have been suggesting we start hunting the most dangerous game of all: MAN.
@rickygervais@sellis2702 well said!She's sick in the head, we should get someone to hunt her and see how she likes it!
— Bernadette Anders (@bernoggles) April 15, 2015
Unfortunately, even if one social media-friendly blonde lady hunter were decommissioned, there's thousands of poachers and the destruction of natural habitats to pick up the slack killing wild animals. Instead of calling for murder, feel free to find a conservation effort in Africa to send your money to. A real one, not a hunter/conservationist one.