Go Daddy’s Bob Parson’s continues to claim that his elephant killing vacation was a humanitarian act. A position that many experts and conservation groups have disagreed with, loudly.
However, despite continuing to defend his actions, his now infamous vacation elephant snuff video has quietly been edited. The new version downplays or outright eliminates some of the original elements that have been specifically targeted by critics.
Web Pro News reports:
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Parsons is still in the video, but gone are the series of stills of Parsons posing proudly with the elephant’s carcass (as pictured above). Also gone are various pieces of text and captions that appeared over the actual footage of the elephant being shot.
For example, the captions used to read, “Bob Parsons fires first,” then “Bob Parsons fires again. Both shots hit home. One bull is killed. The rest stampede out of the field unhurt.”
A caption that appears now, is, “The plan works. Only one bull is killed. The rest stampede out of the field unhurt.”
The video used to begin with the text, “Of everything I do this is the most rewarding. This video shows one typical night and day.”
That’s now gone.
Also gone is the incredibly bizarre use of the AC/DC song Hell’s Bells, which used to play over top of footage of the villagers slaughtering the elephant’s corpse.
Also gone are the close-ups of many of the villagers wearing GoDaddy hats.
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You can read the entire article and see the new edited version of the video here.
It’s hard to find now but here’s the original video in all its glory.
A leading elephant expert also claims that Parsons probably did not kill a bull elephant as he claims. Joyce Poole, an elephant researcher with three decades of experience studying the animals, say the elephant in the video appears to be a young female. The full article is in Discovery News.
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