10 Hunting Pictures That Sparked Social Media Outrage
Do you think the outrage was justified in these cases?
Published 10 years ago in Facepalm
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The World Cup fan who won a modeling contract only to lose it after posting a hunting pictureThe Belgian teenager was about to achieve stardom by becoming one of the faces of the World Cup and landed herself a modeling contract after being spotted in the crowd in Brazil.After she had returned home, she set up a Facebook page that quickly attracted thousands of likes. A couple of days later, the 17-year-old announced she had signed with L'Oréal.Then she posted this
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The TV presenter who hunted a lion and posted the photo on her Twitter feedMelissa Bachman, a TV presenter from Minnesota and an avid life-long hunter, posted a hunting photo on her Twitter feed. She wrote, “An incredible day hunting in South Africa! Stalked inside 60-yards on this beautiful male lion. What a hunt!"Bachman's social media pages and website show an array of huge beasts that have died after coming into contact with her. The "Trophy Room" section of her website features a grinning Bachman with dead deer, antelope, alligators, turkeys, and hogs.
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The 19-year-old cheerleader who sparked online fury by posing with dead animalsn 2014, a 19-year-old cheerleader sparked outrage by posting pictures of wild creatures she has hunted and killed in Africa while posing cheerfully next to them. Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition demanding that Facebook remove the photos taken by U.S. hunter Kendall Jones. Other pictures show her looking cheerful alongside lions, leopards and elephants she killed in the wild. The photos have sparked outrage among animal rights activists with two separate petitions calling for removal the images. Just under 175,000 people signed a petition on AVAAZ.org
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The American dentist who butchered Africa's most famous lion, Cecil.In July 2015, Cecil the lion was slaughtered by prolific animal killer Walter Palmer, who has bragged online about his twisted hunting exploits. The middle-aged dentist from Minnesota also posed for a series of "trophy" images with the bodies of the magnificent beasts he has killed. Cecil was one of the world's most recognizable felines because of his rare black mane. He was the star attraction for thousands of tourists who travel to the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe every year.Palmer — who is now wanted by Zimbabwean police — maintained he believed the hunt he was on was legal
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The hunters who caused outrage after posing with family of foxes they killed.This picture of hunters posing next to a dead fox and her seven cubs sparked outrage after it was posted online in November 2014. In the photo, three men who were hunting near the village of Lysovice in the Czech Republic are seen smiling for the camera. The bodies of the mother fox and her seven cubs lie arranged in a line at their feet. The hunters posted the photo to a blog called Hunters Must Be Crazy.photo went viral after it was shared by the British-based charity One World Wildlife, with viewers branding the men as "evil" and "cruel." A spokesperson for the Czech Hunting Association said, "The red fox isn't a protected species, but I agree it isn't very humane to put pictures of hunted animals on social networks.
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The New Zealand rugby players who were questioned for publishing hunting pictures.In 2014, a group of New Zealand rugby players were under fire for posting photos of themselves with dead animals after a hunting trip in South Africa. Crusaders Tom Taylor, George Whitelock, Sam Whitelock, Ben Funnell, and Tyler Bleyendaal are pictured with various dead animals. Once the pictures started to spread online, they were met with intense criticism.The photos were originally posted on the Facebook page for the Landmark Foundation, an environmental organization that, as Director Dr. Bool Smuts notes, is “against the whole concept of trophy hunting.
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The hunters who apologized after killing a rare albino bull revered by a Native American tribe.three hunters were trying to make amends after they killed a rare albino moose considered sacred by the indigenous Mi'kmaq people. The hunters, who have not been named, shot the animal in the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia, Canada during a recent trip to the area. They claim they did not realize that their trophy would spark outrage among the Mi'kmaq, who believe albino creatures to be "spirit" animals.They later returned the hide so the Mi'kmaq could perform a sacred ceremony.
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The "hunting queen" who received death threats after posing next to a dying giraffe and posting the picture online.Ricky Gervais. The Office star wrote, "What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling?"Supporters backed the outrage with a series of brutal tweets aimed at the mother of eight. Francis, from Utah, also has a television series, Eye of the Hunter, and says, "We hunt elk and deer every year without fail, even through pregnancy, and nursing babies."
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The Rosie O'Donnell shark hunt photos that caused a Facebook backlash.Sharks are in trouble. Approximately 73 million are killed each year, and as a top predator of the sea they are vital to the ocean ecosystem. While some celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio and January Jones, have joined conservationists in the fight for their survival, Rosie O'Donnell doesn't seem too worried. Rosie and family went on several fishing expeditions with Mark “The Shark” Quartiano over the past few years off the coast of southern Florida. Quartiano recently posted a photo of O'Donnell and her kids with a dead hammerhead shark hanging on his boat. The response was quick and angry, with comments posted to O'Donnell's Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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The satirical Facebook post that sparked real outrage at Stephen Spielberg for hunting a Triceratops.If you're a movie nerd, you probably already know that the above photograph is a BTS photo of noted director Steven Spielberg on the set of Jurassic Park with a Triceratops prop. Nothing out of the ordinary for a director to pose with, right?Branscomb posted the above photograph on his Facebook page with the facetious caption, “Disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a Triceratops he just slaughtered. Please share so the world can name and shame this despicable man.”We wish we were kidding, but we're not. Some people did indeed seem to think this was a real triceratops.
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