JimmyJohnLikesSafaris!!

i have also heard from multiple people that he has told employees in training "not to play any black music" in his restaurants.

People, calm down. Jimmy needed to kill these defenseless animals in order to re-stock his supply of orange spray on tan and botox, he gets it from the tusks. It's every mans right to do so. Also, it helps him get it up. He has a very small penis. 

Or... he was following the lead of the GoDaddy douche who was, um, uh, PROTECTING a village from RAMPAGING ELEPHANTS!!!!! Yeah, that's it, protecting!  That's the ticket!

I'll do everyone one better, Photoshopped!

this is definitely a ploy by the owners of quiznos and subway. who are as we speak turning their wives into milk maids for underprivileged lion cubs. 

"Mr Sub" is the Don of the hoagie underworld.

no one ever suspects the canadians. sitting up there, all quiet, eating their fries and gravy...

If JJ's made a good poutine I might be more lenient on the dude.

I can tell because I've seen quite a few of them at my job, and also some of the pixels.

For the record, i literally have no care one way or the other on this, I'm just amused by knee jerk reactions of those with little to no info on the situation.

For the record, I think he looks like such an incredible douchebag standing over these animals that it makes me want to bitch slap his ass. Hunting is fine and meat eating are fine, but pretending you are a bad dude for successfully shooting something in a restricted area with real hunters around to back you up is like preening after you beat a little kid in hoops or something.

Carl Hiaasen wrote a book about douchebags like this. I forget which one.

Stick him in a cage without a gun and a hungry tiger.  Now THAT'S a hunt I'd like to see.

you wouldn't find this unfair and cruel? oh man, you need to read your previous posts. i don't think you know who you are anymore, man.

I'll be more fair than that. Stick him on a savannah with a gun and a family of lions. You want to hunt the big game, hunt the big game, bwana. You want target practice and an opportunity to preen like a peacock . . . well, stay in Urbana and shoot squirrels.

hahaha, awesome. and true.

How much information do you need?

He's in a picture gloating over a dead leopard.  If you have to kill an animal with a gun to feel like a man, well, then, I want nothing to do with you, your company, or your products.

i don't find it offensive.

Then we really have nothing further to "say" to each other.  Peace out.

Piece be with you (great pizza).

His far right wing, and selfish views on taxation and economics bother me more than this, but this kind of trophy hunting really kind of rounds out the full selfish, wealthy pig, picture.

Also "JayP123" is probably a paid shill of JimmyJohn's

I don't work for JimmyJohn's. Believe it or not, it's entirely possible to have an informed independent opinion. You should try it some time.

You were just so moved by randomly finding this story on the internet that you had to run out and quickly go create a Disqus account right away?  I hope you at least get a free sandwich or two out of it.  Hopefully a sick worker who couldn't get the day off won't be the one making your food.

You were just so moved by randomly finding this story on the internet that you had to run out and quickly go create a Disqus account right away?

It wasn't random. I read Chicagoist regularly. As for the rest, pretty much yes. Unlike some people, I am not willing to sell out environmentalism for the sake of enforcing groupthink. Frankly, if you're willing to sell out your own causes for the sake of avoiding common ground, you're the biggest douche in the argument.

I don't think think the problem with this creep is "environmentalism" and I don't believe you've been lurking Chicagoist forever and just decided to create an account either.

What's the difference between JayP123 and the rich, selfish, overly fed, red-faced CEO, "hunter" of Jimmy John's?

a) One loathes his slave, the other loves his master.

you're prolly right, but someone needs to check the facts. I would, but like i said, i don't care.

Chuck, I can only assume that you intended this article to be a lazy, faux intellectual cheap shot at a guy you've already decided not to like. Because if you actually knew anything about hunting safaris in Africa, you'd know that they're generally licensed by the local governments as pro-conservation, pro-environmental efforts. They provide paying jobs in poor areas for anti-poaching enforcers, fund local development programs, and allow for herd management -- all due to rich guys paying to be led by knowledgeable experts, who know which animals can be culled without doing harm to environmental diversity.

But don't let that stop you from encouraging evil if it gives you the warm fuzzies. Better to turn every elephant into bushmeat than to allow one Republican to go unmocked, right?

I WAS going to go on a rant about how photo safaris can achieve most of the same conservation and local development aims as shooting safaris, but then I realized something:

"JP123" wrote, "Better to turn every elephant into bushmeat than to allow one Republican to go unmocked, right?"

But the article doesn't mention Mr. Leotard's political affiliation.  Have we really reached the point where "repulsive doucehbag" is totally synonymous with "Republican"?

Have we really reached the point where "repulsive doucehbag" is totally synonymous with "Republican"?

I thought we got there years ago.

Seriously, for all of your posts here how is it that you have not addressed my point about photo safaris? If culling is appropriate that's fine, but what part of conservation requires that guys like Jimmy John get to stand over the dead animal like Ali standing over Liston? At least Ali gave Liston a fair chance to fight back. Gotta a bullshit link for that?

HA HA HA HA. Oh, that's awesome. Off the top of my head I can't name a single country in sub-Saharan Africa that has been able to effectively manage its resources (be they oil, diamonds, or animals). However, for purposes of shooting big-assed endangered elephants we should assume that they have done . . . just that. Wa wa wa waaaaaaa . . .

In addition, someone who was less of an asshole would have paid substantial sums to take PICTURES of the endangered animal. Instead, people like Jimmy John here will only take the deal if they get to *kill* something. Stop pretending that JJ here is doing anyone a favor. He's flexing his junk by killing something most people don't get to kill. He's just not being bad-assed enough to go out and do it in the wild.

OH MY GOD.  REALLY?  I think I just threw up a little.

Deer are populous enough to "be culled."  Leopards and African elephants are both listed as endangered species, which means they certainly don't need to be CULLED.  Especially for sport.  

Sport killing in Alaska requires the hunter to dress the animal on the spot so it can be used as food later on.  Trophy hunting in Africa is specifically for TROPHIES.  It's so men with little dicks can pretend that they're actually men.

The only reason deer are populous is because hunters kill all their predators. They then thrive in the woods because their natural predators are gone, and then humans complain that deer are "taking over" and scream for a cull. If humans would stop fucking up everything they touch, there would be no problem with deer. But no; wolves, coyotes, bears, foxes, wild cats, and the like are Enemy #1 when it comes to "public safety", so they shoot every one they see. And that leads right back to the part about humans fucking everything up. If we weren't destroying the places they live to create YET ANOTHER stripmall, while thousands of them sit empty across Illinois ALONE, then they wouldn't be roaming the streets of some neighborhood, looking for a mouse or yappy dog to eat because now they're starving and out of a home.

Read and learn, twocee. Or just stay ignorantly confident in your superiority. Your choice.

Oh, I am incredibly confident that I am superior to Jimmie John in many many ways.

However, I am not confident of what you think those two links were supposed to prove.  The Guardian article basically says that hunting drives the animals into hiding, which is going to decrease eco-tourism (and also makes hunting harder), which is a huge revenue generator for African countries.  The article certainly doesn't bestow any information that hunting is good for the overall conservation of charismatic mega-fauna, and it seems mostly to do with monitoring the populations.

The second link is to a hunting safari company, which is kind of like linking to Phillip Morris when you want to prove cigarette smoke is safe.

I will point you to this link: http://www.animalrightsafrica....
page 2, where it discusses the economic benefits of eco-tourism versus hunting and goes on to talk about the problems with trophy hunting in Africa in general.  Yes, it's from an animal rights organization, but it provides lots of source links at the end of the document if you'd like to actually educate yourself on the subject.

Ultimately though, beyond the data it comes down to whether or not you think it's morally right to hunt an animal for the pure enjoyment of killing a living creature.  Obviously you have no problem with it.  And all the data in the world isn't going to fix that problem.

I hope the irony of decrying a safari company link in the name of Philip Morris while posting an animal rights activist link is not lost on you. I mean, is there an group dedicated to animal rights which is ever going to come out and say, "Yup, hunt away!"

(The comparison wasn't lost on me initially, which is why I also linked the Guardian piece. An informed opinion required understanding all sides of an issue.)

I don't think you understand what the word irony means.

Touche! A company that sells THESE VERY SAFARIS says that they are soundly managed. EXCELSIOR!

He's despicable regardless of this vanity faux-hunting stuff, you shill.

Your incorrect usage of the term "bushmeat"  shows your ignorance of the confined "hunting" industry as it is practiced in Africa. Believe me, the elephants are better off with us not shooting them.

The Bushmeat Crisis Task Force agrees with my use of the term, Nicholas. The entire point of herd management is to isolate and kill the elephants which are better off being shot.

You are correct. I misread your statement. But, shooting a confined elephant is in no way considered  " pro-conservation, pro-environmental efforts."  The fact that the elephant may end up as bushmeat, if JJ hadn't shot it first, does not make him less of a douchebag here.

He was a moronic pig before this anyway. Also I thought the paltry percentage of tax was going to ruin him? Apparently he lives in another world than us eh? A world where you complain about such things but then jet off to Africa to get your jollies killing animals (sans the sport aspect) that are more noble than yourself.

hope none of you bitching about killing animals in a confined space are meat eaters. Thanks for the $1 dollar sandwiches yesterday! hahaha

Oh, I'm a meat eater. What's more, I'm generally okay with hunting, as long as the hunter eats what he kills, and that he doesn't kill an endangered species. But there are only about 10,000 African elephants left, hardly a population that needs to be culled. And while I wouldn't be surprised if this fat ass went back to the hotel and ate enough Cheetos to match this elephant's weight, I strongly doubt he ate this elephant.

I agree and I have venison in the freezer. The deer was shot by my uncle. It's "locally sourced."

1 - killing an animal for sport is not the same as killing an animal for food

2 - killing a cow or a chicken is not the same as killing an endangered animal

3 - you can be outraged about the useless slaughter of an animal for pure sport, and still eat a hamburger

oh, you made the same point 3 times in different way. i get it. haha. Now go check the facts on if JayP is right. time better spent. we get it, you don't like killing if it's for sport, but you'll slaughter for a few pieces of an animal. do you have proof the animals weren't eaten? burden of proof is on you, the speculator.

Actually, the only proof I need to despise this man is the fact that he shot and killed an endangered animal.  He could've sat down and ate the whole fucking carcass, and I'd still stop patronizing his restaurant.

W. T. F?

I didn't care one way or another about his bitching about the corporate tax rate or moving to Florida.  And I didn't necessarily care if he was a tool, as most people in this position are.

But this?  This is disgusting.  Makes me want to re-enact The Most Dangerous Game with him in the starring role.

My patronage of Jimmy John's ends now.  With me writing a letter to corporate explaining exactly why.

The wrong elephant's dead in this picture.

I usually don't care about stuff like this, but shooting an elephant? An a confined area? Anyone else getting flashbacks of Sarah Palin hunting out of a helicopter? I feel that, especially for these people, there should be an even playing field. You and your trophy animal in a one on one cage match.

Love that he's a rosy cheeked, porcine, fat-cat.  Straight out of a story book.

That. Is. Un. F-ing. Believable. In light of his crap about the corporate income tax I made the decision several time to get lunch somewhere *other than* Jimmy John's. Now I have to wonder what the meat is when I do go there? What a complete tool this guy is.

Wow, you managed to make this scumbag even more unlikable.  I'm now done with JJ's.

Correction: this scumbag has managed to make himself even more unlikeable. Chicagoist just republished the guy's own pictures. He is his own worst enemy (for the time being).

Quite right.