A "Sport" for Dick Cheney

From the UK's Independent, via Americablog, we get news of a (not so) new "sport" that's just perfect for Darth Cheney:

Rich huntsmen are willing to pay up to £625,000 [$1,088,506] a time to shoot and stuff animals bred commercially for their sport as part of the so-called "canned hunting" trade.

Figures reveal that 164 trophy licences have been granted to British hunters since 1999 allowing them to bring big game mementoes home. However, it is estimated that as many as a thousand UK citizens a year travel abroad in search of quarry after having booked a canned hunting safari over the internet.

Six years ago trophy hunting in South Africa was worth about £14m [$24m] a year. By last year that figure reached nearly £80m[$139m]. Zimbabwe is also vigorously promoting itself as a canned hunting destination and other African nations are also developing it.

Apparently, they buy up old lions from zoos, drug them so they won't run away, and then let these rich old farts that can't reach an orgasm any other way shoot at them.