Former Denver Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe won a Super Bowl during his playing days, but he recently took on a new challenge: killing a menacing mountain lion. However, animal rights activists certainly did not like that.
A local mountain lion killed two pet dogs and a mule deer, so a friend asked Derek Wolfe to kill the lion that was “wreaking havoc” on his community. And when he did – and posted about it on social media – he got all kinds of horrific threats from animal rights activists, receiving more than 200 calls.
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“You can’t please everybody,” Wolfe told Dan Dakich on his Don’t @ Me show, according to Outkick. “But the amount of hate and death threats, you know, threatening my children, saying that they hope pedophiles come after my kids, and this and that, it’s like, ‘What kind of sicko are you?’”
“It started with an animal activist organization; I’m not going to say the name,” Wolfe continued. “They basically enticed people to attack me on Instagram, and Twitter, added me, and then they were kind of throwing false statements out like, ‘He had no right to do this. This is murder. There’s always another way, a better way. This isn’t conservation.’ Which is all false.”
Wolfe notes that he went through a full process to ensure that he killed the lion ethically and legally. He also plans to eat the meat from his hunt.
[Outkick]
