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Five hunters each paid $5,000 to
kill a zebra, and without leaving Michigan. A small zoo has closed, and
the animals sold off. A local hunting lodge bought the zebras. The
zebras were in a fenced-off area of 120 acres. As the hunters lifted
the barbed wire to enter the zebra pen, a young man rode over on an
ATV. A beer cooler was strapped to the back. The young man said his dad
owned the ranch, and he wanted to make sure the hunters got the best
experience possible. It was 8:00 A.M., but they were on vacation, so
they all put their rifles down and helped themselves. The men recounted
their memorable shoots. All had bagged deer, ducks and geese. Two of
them had been to Africa. One of them had killed a crocodile in
Australia. The young man asked if this was going to be a difficult
shoot. No, the hunters all said, these animals were accustomed to
humans. But it was still a chance to bag a zebra. The young man said,
"I heard they drug the animals for these hunts sometimes." Yeah,
sometimes, the hunters responded, but of course these five were
skillful enough to bag sober zebras. There's no sport in shooting
drugged animals. "Well, I guess I don't think of it as a sport," the
young man said, pulling out a handgun and firing. The men were too
drunk to grab their rifles and retaliate. |
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