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08-31-2020, 07:50 PM( This post was last modified: 08-31-2020, 07:50 PM by BA0701 )
(08-31-2020, 07:37 PM)Shadow Wrote:
(08-31-2020, 09:54 AM)BA0701 Wrote:
(08-31-2020, 06:15 AM)Shadow Wrote: I´ll add that much, that I had misunderstanding when I wrote my latest posting just before this. It looks to be so, that killed woman wasn´t in forbidden area, but very unlucky in the situation. As situation was overall, but with no more details I don´t like to comment this kind of incident too much. Usually from media it´s not easy to find all relevant information. Like what comes to this case, there isn´t too much which could be found quickly telling more. There has been investigation, but I didn´t see anything about results.
@Shadow my friend, you are welcome to feel however you feel, as am I, and @BigLion39 as well, which is what makes this forum such a wonderful place, nobody is trying to impose their own feelings or opinions on anyone else, but we are all free to have and share them. The fact that one woman has already been killed, and another nearly attacked is enough for me to determine how I feel on the matter. Couple that with fatal, and non-fatal for that matter, attacks at other reserves, and I have personally seen all I need to in order to form my opinion. You can feel how you feel, and I am entirely fine with that. So, let's just accept that we aren't going to change each others positions, shake hands, and have a beer and a shot. What do you say my friend? First round is on me, cheers @Shadow !
How you feel is one thing and of course your business so to say. Why I wrote was because things concerning death was said in vague way with no sources and information about what had happened and how or was anything happened at all. It was suggested, that a female employee would have been killed quite recently at Richardson´s place, which was incorrect information. There has happened such incident in South-Africa, but it had nothing to do with Richardson, it happened in Bela-Bela game reserve.
Only incident leading to death concerning Richards, which I´m aware at least, is that accident from 2018, which I shared already and wasn´t his employee. Internet is full of rumors. What I like to see is, that people at Wildfact are cautious, when writing about such things. Many people don´t double check things, at all.
As far as I know, there haven´t been any lethal accidents happening so, that Richardson would have been there at the place of the incident. That one case was truly one very unlucky situation, but I don´t remember other cases connected to him. It would be interesting to know more about it and did it cause some changes to something. It looked like something which maybe no-one had thought to be possible to happen, until it happened. And that kind of accidents happen all the time in different places. It´s easy to say that something shouldn´t ever happen, difficult thing is to prevent accidents to happen even though people have thought that all was done carefully.
Anyway, you can feel how you feel, as can others. Just when "accusing" some place of lethal accidents, posters should double check such things in order to avoid defame people by accident for things, which they have had nothing to do with.
Many people care about lions and conservation work thanks to Richardson, no matter what. So us here should be fair with him.
@Shadow, I don't believe anyone has been "unfair to Richardson here. This should be the last we hear on the subject, take care my friend!
Kevin Richardson & his lions
