Out of Africa

right wing ranchers, rumored to be Tea Party sympathizers, use 2nd amendment remedy to blow away three zebras...

rancher #1: I thought they were escaped prisoners...

rancher #2: they were non-native...

ok, now what would you do if you saw three zebras in your back yard? kill them and eat them like Bear Gryls?? here's what some private ranchers in Cambria did!

(Newser) – Hasty California cattle ranchers shot dead three Hearst Castle zebras who strayed onto their property, and neighbors are aghast. The zebras—a buck, a mare and yearling—were part of a herd that roams castle grounds, the remnants of what was at one time the largest private zoo in the world, owned by the late publishing magnate William Randolf Hearst. Two of the zebras were "spooking my horses," said rancher David Fiscalini, who blasted the animals with a shotgun, then called a taxidermist to skin one of the zebras for a rug....ok...so we got some issues here...first of all, who keeps zebras?? apparently the Hearsts did..since 1923, these were decendents from the original herd....kinda like the pigs on Channel Islands, slaughtered for no reason..or silly reasons anyway...

and second, we've heard the News-Press and #69 Julia at the Animal Rescue Team give all kinds of negative press when a Fish and Game ranger killed a bear or confiscated the lion cubs...now let's see what kind of press they give private ranchers who kill zebras for "spooking their horses and cattle".....a zebra is just a horse of a different color so why did the ranchers kill them?? this should be interesting...