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5 year old buck +
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Long and short of this story is she posted her pics just after the Cecil I drama began. No comment section on this story. It would have been neat to see how the Disney kids savage this lady.
American huntress sparks fury by posting selfie with dead giraffe in South Africa
Sabrina Corgatelli, from Idaho, harnessed the controversy surrounding the death of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion to draw attention to her own trophy hunts
Sabrina Corgatelli with a giraffe
By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg
3:21PM BST 03 Aug 2015
An American huntress has sparked fury on social media after posting pictures of herself with the corpses of a giraffe, warthog, kudu and impala during a trip to South Africa.
Sabrina Corgatelli, who is believed to come from Boise, Idaho, counted down the days on her Facebook profile to the “trip of a lifetime” to a private conservancy 20 kilometres from the country’s iconic Kruger National Park.
Before her trip, she posted a meme of Leonardo DiCaprio on her wall accompanied by the message: “To all the haters. Stay tuned, you’re gonna have so much more to be p***** off about.”
On July 25, just after it emerged that an iconic black-maned lion named Cecil had been killed in Zimbabwe by a foreign hunter - later revealed as Dr Walter Palmer, a US dentist - Miss Corgatelli began to post pictures of her kills.
Her first showed her crouching over the prone form of a massive kudu, a kind of African antelope with a white-striped body and spiralling horns. “Yesterday, day 1 an amazing day!!! Got my beautiful beautiful Kudu!! It was my #1 want on my list and I got him on the first day!!! Loving it there!!”
Sabrina Corgatelli with impala
Later the same day, she posted several pictures of her with the corpse of “an amazing old giraffe”, and wrote: “Such an amazing animal!! I couldn't be any happier!! My emotion after getting him was a feeling I will never forget!!!”
Other pictures showed Miss Corgatelli, who has pink and black hair and long, manicured nails and wears heavy make-up, skin-tight khaki and pink hunting attire and hoop earrings, celebrating the kill with hands clasped together as though praying.
Another picture showed her with a large, dead warthog with the caption: “What a fun hunt!!! Loving it here!!” and another showed her with a blue wildebeest and an impala which she described as “one of Africa’s icons”.
Sabrina Corgatelli with a warthog
Miss Corgatelli, a university accountant who also runs a clothing company called Racks and Ridges, also posted a photograph of her boyfriend, named only as “Aaron” with the body of a 13-foot crocodile.
He wrote on his own Facebook page that he had killed two lions in the past two weeks in South Africa, and admitted he had in 2002 killed a collared lion like Cecil in the same place that he had been killed.
Mr Neilson said that Dr Palmer’s actions were “100% acceptable” provided he was hunting with a legal permit in a legal area – an aspect of the case that has been hotly debated.
He said the issue of ethics should not come into it. “I do get seriously tired of the ‘ethical’ token thrown into the mix,” he wrote. “Who are you/I to determine another man's ethics? We have laws to determine what's right/wrong, ethics are your own to decide!!!”
Sabrina Corgatelli with a wildebeest
He condemned those who had attacked Dr Palmer, himself and his girlfriend Miss Corgatelli on social media, as “uneducated, misinformed, misguided, godless, narrow minded hypocrites”.
“I AM HUNTER! For that I make no excuses, no apologies, I back down to no one, and I hide from it not!” he wrote. “I'm armed at all times, and I'm ready - either step up or shut up!! My money, my time and my efforts go to Lion hunting/conservation, for that I am proud!”
The couple’s posts however prompted a firestorm of outrage from animal lovers. Tens of thousands of people posted on Miss Corgatelli’s profile branding her “deranged”, “heartless” and “the definition of disgusting”.
Her profile also attracted more than 7,000 “likes” however, suggesting some hunting sympathisers among those who viewed it, while Mr Neilson’s commentary was reposted hundreds of times by fellow hunting enthusiasts.
Mr Neilson’s Facebook page was later disabled.
Luis, a spokesman for Old Days hunting firm in South Africa, confirmed he had hosted Miss Corgatelli and Mr Neilson for a two-week trip but declined to comment further.
Zimbabwe has restricted hunting following the death of Cecil, who wore a GPS collar as part of an Oxford University study. The authorities have also arrested the professional hunter who accompanied Dr Palmer and called for the dentist’s extradition from Minnesota in the United States to face charges of financing an illegal hunt.
Long and short of this story is she posted her pics just after the Cecil I drama began. No comment section on this story. It would have been neat to see how the Disney kids savage this lady.
American huntress sparks fury by posting selfie with dead giraffe in South Africa
Sabrina Corgatelli, from Idaho, harnessed the controversy surrounding the death of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion to draw attention to her own trophy hunts
Sabrina Corgatelli with a giraffe
By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg
3:21PM BST 03 Aug 2015
An American huntress has sparked fury on social media after posting pictures of herself with the corpses of a giraffe, warthog, kudu and impala during a trip to South Africa.
Sabrina Corgatelli, who is believed to come from Boise, Idaho, counted down the days on her Facebook profile to the “trip of a lifetime” to a private conservancy 20 kilometres from the country’s iconic Kruger National Park.
Before her trip, she posted a meme of Leonardo DiCaprio on her wall accompanied by the message: “To all the haters. Stay tuned, you’re gonna have so much more to be p***** off about.”
On July 25, just after it emerged that an iconic black-maned lion named Cecil had been killed in Zimbabwe by a foreign hunter - later revealed as Dr Walter Palmer, a US dentist - Miss Corgatelli began to post pictures of her kills.
Her first showed her crouching over the prone form of a massive kudu, a kind of African antelope with a white-striped body and spiralling horns. “Yesterday, day 1 an amazing day!!! Got my beautiful beautiful Kudu!! It was my #1 want on my list and I got him on the first day!!! Loving it there!!”
Sabrina Corgatelli with impala
Later the same day, she posted several pictures of her with the corpse of “an amazing old giraffe”, and wrote: “Such an amazing animal!! I couldn't be any happier!! My emotion after getting him was a feeling I will never forget!!!”
Other pictures showed Miss Corgatelli, who has pink and black hair and long, manicured nails and wears heavy make-up, skin-tight khaki and pink hunting attire and hoop earrings, celebrating the kill with hands clasped together as though praying.
Another picture showed her with a large, dead warthog with the caption: “What a fun hunt!!! Loving it here!!” and another showed her with a blue wildebeest and an impala which she described as “one of Africa’s icons”.
Sabrina Corgatelli with a warthog
Miss Corgatelli, a university accountant who also runs a clothing company called Racks and Ridges, also posted a photograph of her boyfriend, named only as “Aaron” with the body of a 13-foot crocodile.
He wrote on his own Facebook page that he had killed two lions in the past two weeks in South Africa, and admitted he had in 2002 killed a collared lion like Cecil in the same place that he had been killed.
Mr Neilson said that Dr Palmer’s actions were “100% acceptable” provided he was hunting with a legal permit in a legal area – an aspect of the case that has been hotly debated.
He said the issue of ethics should not come into it. “I do get seriously tired of the ‘ethical’ token thrown into the mix,” he wrote. “Who are you/I to determine another man's ethics? We have laws to determine what's right/wrong, ethics are your own to decide!!!”
Sabrina Corgatelli with a wildebeest
He condemned those who had attacked Dr Palmer, himself and his girlfriend Miss Corgatelli on social media, as “uneducated, misinformed, misguided, godless, narrow minded hypocrites”.
“I AM HUNTER! For that I make no excuses, no apologies, I back down to no one, and I hide from it not!” he wrote. “I'm armed at all times, and I'm ready - either step up or shut up!! My money, my time and my efforts go to Lion hunting/conservation, for that I am proud!”
The couple’s posts however prompted a firestorm of outrage from animal lovers. Tens of thousands of people posted on Miss Corgatelli’s profile branding her “deranged”, “heartless” and “the definition of disgusting”.
Her profile also attracted more than 7,000 “likes” however, suggesting some hunting sympathisers among those who viewed it, while Mr Neilson’s commentary was reposted hundreds of times by fellow hunting enthusiasts.
Mr Neilson’s Facebook page was later disabled.
Luis, a spokesman for Old Days hunting firm in South Africa, confirmed he had hosted Miss Corgatelli and Mr Neilson for a two-week trip but declined to comment further.
Zimbabwe has restricted hunting following the death of Cecil, who wore a GPS collar as part of an Oxford University study. The authorities have also arrested the professional hunter who accompanied Dr Palmer and called for the dentist’s extradition from Minnesota in the United States to face charges of financing an illegal hunt.
