We’re a little worried about Mike Jines and his company, TopGen Energy in Forsyth, Georgia.
When we tried to pull up his company website, all that came up was a card saying the site was “under construction.”
But that’s all gone now, and a heck of a time you’ll have trying to find any current info about Mike or TopGen, because if you search on those terms, wow, you are going to get a lot of heated postings and articles about a couple of dead elephants.
Back in January, the controversy boiled over as photos of Jines and his professional guide appeared which showed them standing over a juvenile female elephant they had shot dead in Zimbabwe. The beautiful creature is in an odd position, as if she had crumpled over onto her forelegs and fell asleep — except for the tell-tale bullet hole in her forehead.
Outrage that yet another American trophy hunter was posing proudly with his kill — and an elephant that was too young to be hunted — rose to a fever pitch here. But then, in February, Jines responded, saying that on the first day of his hunting adventure in Africa, he and his guide were surprised by the two females, who charged them. They had no choice except to shoot the two cows — which he claimed were adults — or risk being trampled.
But judging by how Mike’s company has essentially been erased from the Internet from the online outrage, we’re thinking his story isn’t really flying with the public.
We’d love to hear from someone in the Georgia power industry about whether TopGen is managing to operate even with the outrage, and whether things are easing over time. How long, we wonder, can Internet outrage last?
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Posted by Tony Ortega on April 11, 2019 at 20:00
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