Brazil Just Shot and Killed Its Own Olympic Mascot.
Here we go again: A jaguar that was brought out during an Olympic torch event earlier this week was shot and killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers. The local Games organizing committee is now investigating the incident, but animal welfare advocates say the big cat should never have been there in the first place.
The 17-year-old jaguar, named Juma, made an appearance at an event on Monday to commemorate the passing of the Olympic torch in Manus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon. She was photographed in chains alongside assault rifle-wielding soldiers and a runner holding a torch.
Following the event, Juma was taken to a zoo that’s part of a military base in the city. She apparently escaped an enclosure but was not at risk of leaving the confines of the zoo. Military officials said Juma was hit with four tranquilizer darts, but they didn’t slow her down. Once the cat turned on a veterinarian, a soldier was forced to take her down with bullets.
“It escaped and ran off as it was being moved from one area to another in the zoo,” Colonel Luiz Gustavo Evelyn told the press. “To protect the handler, it was sacrificed.”
What the hell was a jaguar doing at an Olympic torch event, you ask? Well, a jaguar named Ginga happens to be the official mascot of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The local Games organizing committee obviously thought it would be cute to trot out an actual jaguar for a public event—an idea that has now led to the death of an animal that had been raised in captivity since it was cub
If it truly was Brazilian the pussy would be shaved before it was shot upon.
All Olympics are clusterfucks now.
Some Irish golfer said he wasn't going to go to the Olympics due to Zika. Smart man, very smart, put #1 ahead of some stupid game. Not to mention, he's supposedly a pro golfer and likely makes way more on the regular circuit.
Some Irish golfer said he wasn't going to go to the Olympics due to Zika. Smart man, very smart, put #1 ahead of some stupid game. Not to mention, he's supposedly a pro golfer and likely makes way more on the regular circuit.
What's "interesting" right now are all the "health experts" coming out and saying there's very little Zika risk because mosquitoes are not as active in the winter down there -- no mention of the hookers and "fun time" in the athlete's village. But forget Zika, how are their waterways doing? Massive economic depression + lots of young, naive, relatively rich, foreigners from first-world countries? No problem!
Yeah Zika is jsut the icing on the cake, that place is filthy in general due to the poop in the water and stuff. There's all sorts of other diseases.
Would not be surprised if health experts were paid big bucks to say it's not that bad, too, so I'd take it with a grain of salt, considering they originally were saying it's bad. Lot of officials even pushing to postpone the olympics, but that's not really something that would happen.
Some Irish golfer said he wasn't going to go to the Olympics due to Zika. Smart man, very smart, put #1 ahead of some stupid game. Not to mention, he's supposedly a pro golfer and likely makes way more on the regular circuit.
What's "interesting" right now are all the "health experts" coming out and saying there's very little Zika risk because mosquitoes are not as active in the winter down there -- no mention of the hookers and "fun time" in the athlete's village. But forget Zika, how are their waterways doing? Massive economic depression + lots of young, naive, relatively rich, foreigners from first-world countries? No problem!
Rory McIlroy. He makes something like $40-$50 million a year with endorsements. He probably just didn't want to go to a lame-ass meaningless tournament and used Zika as an excuse so that he didn't look like he was abandoning his country.
Golf in the Olympics is a really stupid idea. Even in a country other than Brazil some top players would be looking for reasons to avoid going.
Some Irish golfer said he wasn't going to go to the Olympics due to Zika. Smart man, very smart, put #1 ahead of some stupid game. Not to mention, he's supposedly a pro golfer and likely makes way more on the regular circuit.
What's "interesting" right now are all the "health experts" coming out and saying there's very little Zika risk because mosquitoes are not as active in the winter down there -- no mention of the hookers and "fun time" in the athlete's village. But forget Zika, how are their waterways doing? Massive economic depression + lots of young, naive, relatively rich, foreigners from first-world countries? No problem!
lol @ "some irish golfer" !!
Something has got to distract the world from the train wreck unfolding in the US, our presidential election.It's fascinating watching this trainwreck unfold.