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First off, lions rarely attack humans. Most notable repeat cases have been found to have been the result of a tooth abbess that makes it hard for the lion to hunt its usual prey. This was likely just bad timing, and a lion hanging around a camp waiting for interested prey like warthogs to also be interested in food scraps.
If the tent didn't have a full bathroom attached, then this wasn't "luxury." Full stop. Even an en suite bathroom attached to the tent doesn't cross the line into "luxury" at some camps. But that doesn't mean they won't spray "luxury" all over the website of any camp with mattresses and a lodge restaurant to justify the upcharge.
Next, he was a local, staying in an elevated tent, likely on top of his car. I doubt he paid more than $20 a night got there stay.
As for all you people saying "well good" because he was a "businessman" keep in mind that the media simplifies things like a person's whole life into a word, and would do the same to you. He owned an Off Road Centre, a place that kits out 4x4s for exactly the kind of thing he was doing, camping on the Skeleton Coast. That being said, being a person of British descent in Namibia that was a young adult during the Apartheid era....eesh.
If you feel you MUST hate this person, that's your only real avenue and you all don't even understand that. Hate will consume you, and makes you stupid. Maybe try not being a dick and accepting this is clickbait with limited detail because of only contains enough info to piss you off.
At the same time, one can say that all the hate is a sign of how bad things are for so many people (mentally in this case). They are so desperate for someone to pay for crimes committed upon them and others, they will hate a rando because the news called him a businessman.
You're saying that being angry makes it acceptable to be stupid as well. That being downtrodden not only doesn't offer the opportunity to be smart about it, that instead the oppressed can't be free to do much other than be hateful assholes.
Cool. Cool cool cool. Was that already written inside your MAGA hat from a factory in China? Or did you have to write it in there next to your own name so you didn't forget that either?
Edit: the last part is slight /s since I know you don't really mean that, but its a slippery slope.
More like, people do dumb things under significant stress. This is already know. So we can focus on that or focus on the cause.
What about the lions The Ghost and The Darkness? Your saying a tooth ache caused them to kill so many men?
Yeah, it's listed on their wiki as a possible reason.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters
Suffocating a struggling zebra requires a healthy song jaw and teeth. One wrong tooth starts to hurt and suddenly the lion can't hunt large prey anymore. Humans are very easy to kill relative to usual lion prey, so we're the blended ham and peas at the nursing home.
So, we can protect ourselves by giving lions better dental care.