Controversy has broken out over a couple of new Halloween costumes.
Earlier this week, we took note of a Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume and those who take major exception to stores looking to profit over one person’s very real, very personal life decision.
Now, it’s time for a debate over another potential outfit one can wear to go trick-or-treating on October 31, as Costumeish is offering a Walter Palmer costume.
You remember Walter Palmer, right? The dentist who met national scorn after illegally hunting and murdering a lion named Cecil in Africa?
The costume above retails for $59.99, which may be the most offensive part to this.
According to the description on the official website:
All Doctor Palmer wanted was to hang dead animals in his house, but what started as an obscure (if legally-dubious) hunting trip has since erupted into a brouhaha of trans-Atlantic proportions.
2015’s most controversial killing has laid bare the rift in American and Zimbabwean attitudes toward exotic game hunting and animal conservation pitting an outraged mob against a Minnesotan dentist in a scandal sure to be remembered for a generation.
Before deciding whether this is funny or foul, consider:
Johnathon Weeks, CEO of Costumeish, tells TMZ that Costumeish.com will be donating 15 percent of the costume’s sales to the African Wildlife Foundation.
