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An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns

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[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 65 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.

Metal

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A Nimona meme in the wild?

Metal!

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My 2nd favorite animal saving my 1st favorite? Get fucked poacher. Haha! Yes!

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

/upliftingnews

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago

*by trampling my least favorite

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

Animal solidarity. Love to see it.

[–] Fives@discuss.online 31 points 6 days ago
[–] Ozzy@piefeed.com 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Elephants provide a reason to hope and rebellions are built on hope

[–] TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Therefore, rebellions are built on elephants!

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Just like the diskworld

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Good job elephants!

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

I love elephants.

[–] IamMoonPie@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

For anyone who didn’t read the article oh man it was a gem!

“For us it’s a big boost when the animals win and poachers lose. The Kruger is huge and we can’t be everywhere so it’s nice when the nellies give us some help!”

It goes on to mention other times animals have absolutely annihilated poachers! It was fabulous!

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope the animals and the environment weren't meaningfully damaged by his presence and subsequent death.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If anything, I imagine his thoroughly pureed corpse acted as a useful fertiliser for the near by flora.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

One source mentioned lions grabbing an easy meal

[–] HiobsTriops@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Thank you, I really needed some good news today.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 13 points 6 days ago

Elephants are such smart and plain cool animals.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why isn’t it more socially acceptable to discuss why, or more specifically who causes the horns to be valuable?

[–] IamMoonPie@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I feel like you didn’t read the article

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is there an article from a more reputable source than the Daily Star?

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago

I want to believe though..

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I searched briefly but found mostly sketchy reprint sources. One seems to say lions came along and ate some of the corpse as well, which good if so. But I didn't see a date of occurrence either. That's partly because I wasn't clicking on Agree to the cookies and conditions, though.

[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Clever gir- splat!

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was about to post it there first but reread their rules. You can't celebrate any kind of human suffering there. Even if they totally had it coming 😓

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Might be good content for a LeopardsAteMyFace community. It's probably closer to leopards than most other posts that'd end up there! Lol

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Always a bummer to hear that a literal piece of human refuse suffered such a tragic and horrific end.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Based Elephants.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Good thing I keep the world's smallest violin handy.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Turnabout is fair play