Rhino Horn Crisis Reaches Into Europe's Museums

[vta]

From Les Paul to China...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...orn-crisis-reaches-into-europes-museums]Link.

The New York Times this morning follows up earlier reporting by The Guardian about a rash of thefts at European museums.

It's not artwork or jewels the thieves are after. They want rhinoceros horns, which the Times says can sell for more than $200,000 each. And they're ripping them off long-dead rhinos that in some cases have been in European natural history museums for decades.

Driving the market: "a surge in demand from the far east and European Asian communities for powdered rhino horn, which is used in traditional Chinese medicines," says the Guardian, and the belief by some in those regions that the powder is an aphrodisiac.

I guess we can narrow it down to who's doing the stealing.

 

[YosemiteSam]

From Les Paul to China...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...orn-crisis-reaches-into-europes-museums]Link.



I guess we can narrow it down to who's doing the stealing.

Next thing you know, the governments going to raid Gibson over this!

 

[vta]

Next thing you know, the governments going to raid Gibson over this!

 

[Concord]

I'm going to lose my mind!

First people are cutting down my trees and now they're going after my beloved Rhino's Horns in the same day!

What's next...Zrin coming in here and telling me he's going to cook some Polar Bear meat on the grill tonight?!

I hate people!

 

[Yeagermeister]

I'm going to lose my mind!

First people are cutting down my trees and now they're going after my beloved Rhino's Horns in the same day!

What's next...Zrin coming in here and telling me he's going to cook some Polar Bear meat on the grill tonight?!

I hate people!

MMMMM polar bear :homerdrool: :laugh1:

 

[cowboyeric8]

What's next...Zrin coming in here and telling me he's going to cook some Polar Bear meat on the grill tonight?!

Zrin better invite me, that's good eating.

 

[Concord]

MMMMM polar bear :homerdrool: :laugh1:

Zrin better invite me, that's good eating.

I knew that would bring out the Neanderthals!

I hope you both choke!

 

[Nomad]

If they grind it into powder anyway, why don't they just sell them crushed chalk or something and say it's "rhino horn". It will have the same amount of effect anyway.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I knew that would bring out the Neanderthals!

I hope you both choke!

You've obviously never had polar bear chicken fried backstrap. Ohhhh, that's good eats. They cubs are really the best eating though, and preferably if they've been feeding on fresh whale and seal meat. Once they start scavenging carcasses, the cub's meat takes on a real gamey flavor.

There's really three levels of good polar bear cub meat. 1. Pre- weaned, 2. Fresh weaned fresh meat fed, and then 3. Scavenging feeding.

Some natives will tell you that their first year out of hibernation is the best since their meat is the leanest at that time. I've also heard Inuit say that the younger/cuter the cub, the better the eating. If you can get it away from its mother and then steal its Coke, it'll never look nearly as cute as when you flip it on its back and dangle the bottle over its head. They say its beyond words to see the little fur balls pawing at the air, trying to get their soda back, then BAM! One shot and you've got the tastiest vittles this side of a baby seal.