By now you’ve probably read, or heard on the news, something to the effect of “Texas teen ‘bags’ an 800-pound record alligator.” The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department say the alligator was between 30 and 50 years old. [That’s right, the animal was older and wiser than the young human who hooked and shot him.]
Typical of the media’s coverage of the atrocity is the following article from the Seattle Times:
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator – the heaviest ever certified in Texas – on his first alligator hunt. [Great, he’s a trophy hunter for life now, no doubt.]
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials say 18-year-old Braxton Bielski bagged [“BAGGED”? Here the press are being about as disrespectful of the animal as the murderous kid] the record gator last week at Choke Canyon State Park, about 90 miles south of San Antonio.
The agency says in a statement that Braxton shot the giant reptile after hooking it on a line using raw chicken as bait. [They call it a “hunt” but the poor animal was hooked in the water like a fish, only later to be shot by the mighty human “hunter.”]
Bielski’s father, Troy Bielski, won a Parks and Wildlife drawing for a five-day permit to hunt in the Daughtry Wildlife Management Area. The Houston police officer says his son had been dreaming of hunting alligators for years. [Serial killers fantasize for years before murdering their victims too.]
I posted this article to my Facebook page yesterday; it received these fitting comments:
“For absolutely no significant purpose whatsoever. Sickening. This is what young people are taught through so many societal avenues – that no other living creature matters, except them and those like them. Not even other human beings. Humans are raising a whole bunch of Sociopaths and Psychopaths. Very Frightening.”
“Sick–go into its habitat–bait a hook–then shoot it from a boat when it comes up…”
“Wow, this is something to be proud of? There will probably never be an 800 lb alligator on this planet again, so good for this little asshole, he got the last one. I’m sure the killer of the last wolf, bear, cougar….will be just as proud of himself.”
Need I say more?
It’s not so surprising to hear about Syrian rebel leaders eating human hearts when this kind of treatment of other living things is taught to today’s youth.
Exposing the Big Game 
WTF!!!!!!! SICKOS!!!!!!!
It’s like he was playing too much Monster Hunter and decided to take it to its logical conclusion.
It’s called ” nature deficit disorder” and humans are aces at this particular malady!
They don’t seem to have any notion of responsibility of the land and its inhabitants. Nor the producers of such rot, and total lack of respect for ecosystems and the harmony of the universe
These young men may have no other passion but to kill and be honored, they are our TV gladiators. And the bloodier the better.
No heroes here, just phony jango jacked up for the $$$. Don’t support the sponsors of such cruelty.
a very sad and terrible time when celebrating killing wildlife is acceptable. an 800 pound creature murdered for a trophy. sick
So true Louise.