February 23rd, 2006 | Dallas, Texas, Travel |
My brother’s house of macabre but humorously posed dead animals
So my brother in Dallas is a big hunter. He goes on African safaris all the time and is always looking to bag something exotic, or simply something that would look funny when stuffed, mounted, and placed inconspicuously in his house.
First, you will see a picture of him with a giraffe that he killed then had stuffed and put in his foyer to welcome guests. During Christmas, he put a santa hat on top to make it look more festive for the season. He claimed that this giraffe was running around Africa eating children and spreading AIDS, so he had no choice but to shoot it.
The second picture is of a hippo he killed and had converted into a coffee table. He had the taxidermist embed a permanent smile on the hippo, so that guests would be assured that the hippo is happy to be holding their after-dinner cognacs.
February 23rd, 2006 23:35
Has he attempted to bag the dreaded God Warrior yet? Everybody could use a second coffee table.
February 24th, 2006 02:03
That would be a pretty lumpy table…
February 24th, 2006 04:33
I’m going to get a bunch of San Francisco Greenpeace vegans to go visit his house. And then I’m gonna sell viewing rights on the Internet.
I think the hippo coffee table is cool. The giraffe kind of freaks me out. Imagine if you get up in the middle of the night and run into that.
February 24th, 2006 06:51
That giraffe looks really torked off…
February 24th, 2006 14:19
Toys R Us commercials just aren’t as enjoyable in that house.
October 3rd, 2006 20:05
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January 23rd, 2007 16:39
I live in San Francisco and I am not a vegan but I would like to go to your brother’s house and pummel him. Seriously, what a waste. And if I ever see your jack-off brother hunting cats in my neighborhood, I will have his head on my wall faster than you can say “cruelty to Texans”.
January 23rd, 2007 20:01
I just don’t understand what motivates someone to travel to another continent to find beautiful, unique creatures and slaughter them so he can use their stuffed carcasses for home furnishings. Pottery Barn has plenty of nice coffee tables; please leave the hippos alone.
January 23rd, 2007 22:20
The most classic form of penis envy. Of all the lifeless creatures in the pictures, the ‘man’ is the savage beast.
January 23rd, 2007 22:23
When losers like this exist, the only consolation is that in our next life we’ll be chilling by the pool with Giraffe & Hippo and using Texan as a towel rack. But we’ll get the taxidermist to wipe off that sick grin.
January 24th, 2007 00:49
to each his own. happy happy hippo.. dumbass.
January 24th, 2007 15:28
how DO you get a dead giraffe through customs anyway? but I think the bigger point is why display dead animals in your home?
January 24th, 2007 19:03
It’s unfortunate there is a system that allows this type of person to prosper and do something like this. The only “exotic” thing this idiot should get to see is the toilet after he inhales three big macs.
February 28th, 2007 10:26
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July 1st, 2007 13:57
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I don’t agree with you in 100%, but you covered some good points regarding this topic…
September 26th, 2007 19:50
nice animals man, you sick f**k.. how about you go kill more animals and put them up on your walls. or even worse pay for them to be killed so you can show them off like trophies. its funny thought because you probably didn’t hunt any of these animals(deere etc.) instead of them feeding poor families you have them plastered all over your walls. does it make you feel rish? cause really you should feel so enormously rish, i look up to you. have a good one…
May 5th, 2008 00:31
While I have very strong feelings against hunting, it’s not the killing of animals that I’d like to protest here. I would just like to comment that giraffes are conservation dependent, and hippos are threatened. This means that both of these animals are at risk of becoming endangered, and because of the political turmoil in some of the nations in which they live, they are not well protected. In some cases, killing them is a violation of international law.
I understand if your brother chooses to hunt, but he really should not kill species at risk of endangerment.