On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:58:07 PM UTC-5, Remington 7 wrote:
> On 7/22/2014 12:39 PM, Bryan-TGWWW wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:06:24 AM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
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> >> "Remington 7" > wrote in message
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> >>> I wonder how many have used bug spray or stepped on ants?
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> >> Me stepping on them means a very quick death, not a slow agonizing death
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> >> like leg traps.
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> > I heard on the radio this morning about rhino poachers, and I have a GREAT IDEA!
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> > Declare large areas game preserves with shoot-on-sight rules. Anyone inside the zone w/o approval would be assumed to be a poacher. Then, sell tickets
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> > for supervised hunts. The prey? Poachers. They could use the revenue for
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> > conservation. I'm sure there'd be folks willing to pay big bucks to hunt the
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> > filthy poachers. Part of the deal could be getting to take trophies, a
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> > taxidermied head, a hand, maybe a penis, possibly even a whole stuffed body.
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> > What a delightful gift for the man who has everything, the most kick-ass
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> > safari ever.
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> >> Cheri
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> > --Bryan
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> How long have you harbored these antisocial tendencies anyway?
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> Did you develop them from playing violent video games?
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I've never played a violent video game, and don't see violence as a game.
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> African conservationalists have a "shoot-to-kill" tactic for identified
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> poachers. Various human rights groups have complained about this. However,
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I don't support those groups, and have actively heckled animal rights
demonstrators
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> "Some conservation groups regard the protection of the gorilla, rhino
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> and other endangered species as more important than human life"
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The life of a poacher is less than worthless.
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> Were you aware that major African game reserves already have very strict
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> rules, scientific traps and armed patrols?
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My regime would bring in much needed cash. Lots of folks would pay millions
a pop for the chance to hunt the ultimate prey.
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> http://www.theguardian.com/environme...achers-protect
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> A game reserve in South Africa has taken the radical step of poisoning
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> rhino horns so that people risk becoming "seriously ill" if they consume
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> Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink
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> dye into more than 100 rhinos' horns over the past 18 months to combat
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> international poaching syndicates. More than 200 rhinos have been
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> poached so far this year in South Africa, driven by demand in the far
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> east, where horn ground into powder is seen as a delicacy or traditional
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> "Consumers of the powdered horn in Asia risk becoming seriously ill from
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> ingesting a so-called medicinal product, which is now contaminated with
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> a non-lethal chemical package," said Andrew Parker, chief executive of
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> the Sabi Sand Wildtuin Association, a group of private landowners in
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> Mpumalanga province.
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**** the "non-lethal" aspect. Pussies.
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> The "toxification" process involves tranquilising a rhino, drilling a
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> hole in its horn then injecting the dye and parasiticides generally used
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> to control ticks on animals such as horses, cattle and sheep; it is
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> toxic to humans. "It'll make [people] very ill � nausea, stomach ache,
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> diarrhoea � it won't kill them," Parker continued. "It will be very
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> visible, so it would take a very stupid consumer to consume this."

They should use better chemicals:
http://www.nature.com/nrurol/journal....2013.186.html
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/...aflatoxin.html

They should also find ways to create faux rhino horn, contaminate it with
horrible toxins, then find a way to get it into the black market pipeline.

--Bryan