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Hell's Gate National Park, Kenya, August 1904
The British park ranger, Kingston Rangoon, desperately struggles to control an exploding population of rabid giraffes which are threatening humans and game alike. With all traditional methods of pest control having little more than trivial effects, he thinks all is lost, and fears nothing but the ends of the earth will contain the epidemic.
An epiphany comes to him in an opium fueled vision, he makes directly for his workshop, and sets to work without eating or sleeping for 3 days. He emerges - weak and bleary eyed - following a self contained coal driven living machine he claims will autonomously exterminate the wildly rampaging giraffes. He was right.
Eight days later it is estimated that over 12,000 giraffes had died beneath its blade. Unfortunately, in his great haste, Kingston had spent too little time developing the mechanism that would allow the machine to differentiate giraffe from zebra, lion or human. Throughout August and September 1904 Kingston's machine indiscriminately slaughtered nearly 700,000 creatures, decimating several thousand hectares of National Park.
Being so close when he activated the lethal robot, Rangoon himself is assumed to have been instantly hacked to pieces and the remains of the machine were never found. The relentless, brutal and merciless violence it coolly carried out however were well documented and local wildlife populations are only beginning to recover.
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The British park ranger, Kingston Rangoon, desperately struggles to control an exploding population of rabid giraffes which are threatening humans and game alike. With all traditional methods of pest control having little more than trivial effects, he thinks all is lost, and fears nothing but the ends of the earth will contain the epidemic.
An epiphany comes to him in an opium fueled vision, he makes directly for his workshop, and sets to work without eating or sleeping for 3 days. He emerges - weak and bleary eyed - following a self contained coal driven living machine he claims will autonomously exterminate the wildly rampaging giraffes. He was right.
Eight days later it is estimated that over 12,000 giraffes had died beneath its blade. Unfortunately, in his great haste, Kingston had spent too little time developing the mechanism that would allow the machine to differentiate giraffe from zebra, lion or human. Throughout August and September 1904 Kingston's machine indiscriminately slaughtered nearly 700,000 creatures, decimating several thousand hectares of National Park.
Being so close when he activated the lethal robot, Rangoon himself is assumed to have been instantly hacked to pieces and the remains of the machine were never found. The relentless, brutal and merciless violence it coolly carried out however were well documented and local wildlife populations are only beginning to recover.
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