Trophy hunters are so tragically misunderstood. No matter how much they explain to people that they are dedicated conservationists, supreme lovers of animals, and not people suffering crippling inadequacy issues, there’s another side to these champions of the natural world that rarely gets the credit it deserves: Their sense of humor.
Take Canberra developer Nick Haridemos, for example. Last year, Nick was dragged in the press because photos that he’d taken between 2010 and 2016 went viral, in particular a shot of him sharing a ride with a baboon who looked like it was having a laugh driving Nick’s jeep.
The fact that Nick had fired a high-velocity projectile through the primate’s vital organs and the animal had expired didn’t mean that Nick wasn’t going to include Mr. Baboon in the safari hijinks.
Sadly for him, the press backlash to this photo and others posted by Nick resulted in him losing his job as vice president at the prestigious Hellenic Club in Canberra.
We’d love to catch up with Nick a year later. Anyone know where he’s working now?
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Posted by Tony Ortega on April 2, 2019 at 20:00
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Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He’s written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology’s harassment of Paulette Cooper titled ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely,’ and more recently a compilation of his stories, ‘Battlefield Scientology.’ He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world, as well as other subjects at The Underground Bunker. You can reach him by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you’d like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.)
