Shooting a baboon

[RDMcG]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/fo...

I normally really enjoy AA Gill in the Times..one of the best writers on the planet. However, today's article was about shooting a baboon for fun. I have hunted and fished in the past and have no particular problem with it when its edible, but simply shooting an animal like this strikes me as being quite nasty. I am not a vegetarian either.

Am I being completely hypocritical?

Curious to know opinions of others.

[DSM2]

Bugger. I thought this was about MPs again...............

As for the article, I guess a baboon is all Gill could outwit. fking moron.

[Jasandjules]

Killing an animal for "fun"? What a c***.

[AndrewW-G]

I'm more surprised at somebody actually reading Gill's column complete load of pretentious toss. At least Winner's sometimes funny

[grumbledoak]

First time I've read his column, and probably the last.

Not sure how I feel about the baboon, assuming it wasn't all make-believe. What is the death toll from our hospitals recently, 20+ per day?

[Fittster]

I don't real see much difference between a baboon and grouse.

[DSM2]

Fittster said:

I don't real see much difference between a baboon and grouse.

Really? I wouldn't want to go shooting with you if your sight is that bad!

[HOGEPH]

Fittster said:

I don't real see much difference between a baboon and grouse.

Famous Baboon Whisky doesn't have the same ring to it.

[Don]

So. Did he eat it afterwards?

Shooting st for the giggles I really don't understand. That's plain weird in my book.

Shooting stuff then eating it (provided it's not an endangerd species) - no problem. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Tatsy.

[ofcorsa]

Sometimes hunters pay a fee to hunt on tribal land and the tribe also gets to eat bushmeat resulting from the shoot,

[Eric Mc]

Baboons are better fliers.

[munroman]

Eric Mc said:

Baboons are better fliers.

Trust Eric to know the aviation stuff!

(As blue as a Grouse's A*se doesn't have the same ring to it!)

[mybrainhurts]

Fittster said:

I don't real see much difference between a baboon and grouse.

One is a big Scottish bird....the other is a Scottish prime minister

[Mojocvh]

ofcorsa said:

Sometimes hunters pay a fee to hunt on tribal land and the tribe also gets to eat bushmeat resulting from the shoot,

Kershing!

[T89 Callan]

Swatting a fly? Trapping a rat? Shooting a baboon?

I can't see why people differentiate, killing and animal is killing an animal. You either do it or you don't?