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Friday, April 01, 2011

GoDaddy CEO Shoots Elephant, Sparks Stampede Of Customers To Flee

The CEO of domain name registrar GoDaddy is facing an online furor after the video he posted of himself killing an elephant in Africa went viral. After the elephant dies and CEO Bob Parsons poses next to it, villagers from all around come out to strip and devour the carcass on the spot. Many of them are wearing day-glo orange GoDaddy caps. As these images play in the video, "Hells Bells" provides the soundtrack. Now a backlash movement has started for folks to switch their domain providers away from GoDaddy.

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3 comments:

lmclain said...

You GOTTA question this man's judgment. And intelligence. And concern for anything other than his (obviously inflated) ego.

Anonymous said...

Truly sick action to kill such a beautiful innocent animal because you have so much money you can do whatever you want.

afactisafact said...

I agree with 10:03 completely. I'm all for hunting - when you kill for a reason and the animal is used in the way in which it should be. There's no good reason to kill an elephant.