GoDaddy Elephant Slaughter Draws Massive Backlash

[Jacpher]

GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons may need a lesson in online reputation management. Lesson 1: Don’t kill elephants. Lesson 2: If you do kill an elephant, don’t post a video about it on the web. 3: If you do kill an elephant and post a video about it on the web, and then tweet it out to 33,000 followers. Really lesson 1 solves them all, but now he’s learning the hard way as the controversy has taken the web by storm.

 

GoDaddy is no stranger to controversy. That’s for sure. This is a whole new kind of controversy though. The following video says it all (warning: it’s graphic):

 

The video begins with the text, “Of everything I do this is the most rewarding. This video shows one typical night and day.”

 

“Damage is extensive. Unless elephant are stopped entire crop may be lost,” the captions in the video say. “When crops are lost subsistence farmers risk starvation.”

“Bob Parsons fires first,” they later proclaim. “Bob Parsons fires again. Both shots hit home. “One bull is killed. The rest stampede out of the field unhurt.”

 

 

Then it goes to a series of still photos of Parsons posing proudly with the dead elephant. “Early the next morning hungry villagers butcher the elephant,” it then reads, before cutting to footage of the villagers butchering the animal while AC/DC plays over it. Some villagers wear GoDaddy hats.

 

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[The Zack]

Holly cow! This is beyond craziness!

[Som@li]

The guy is mad, I reckon he knew of all the noise this would generate? GoDAddy

[Axmed-InaJaad]

gaaladan horta maxee xayawaanka ilaahay u layaan for ciyaar. wallahi this makes me angry, maroodiga is beautiful animal. his company shud be boycatted.