Former ice hockey player Tim Brent receives death threats after posing with bodies of grizzly bear and moose
Tim Brent, best known for his stint as a professional ice hockey forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League, has been the target of death threats on Twitter after he posted a photo of himself next to a grizzly bear he hunted in Yukon, Canada.
In a Twitter post, the 34-year-old bragged he had killed the bear after "an awesome stalk," writing, "Alright folks, here is my Mountain Grizzly! We put an awesome stalk on him but he spotted us at about 75 yards. Instead of taking off he turned and came right at us. It was very easy to tell this bear [sic] owned the valley we were hunting in and wasn’t scared of anything!"
Alright folks, here is my Mountain Grizzly! We put an awesome stalk on him but he spotted us at about 75 yards. Instead of taking off he turned and came right at us. It was very easy to tell this boar owned the valley we were hunting in and wasn’t scared of anything! When he… pic.twitter.com/CkgybKe5Mc
— Tim Brent (@Brenter37) September 10, 2018
The comments on the photo were mostly those of enraged Twitterati, many of whom were not shy to express what they felt of him. It wasn't just random netizens that hit out at Brent either, with quite a few celebrities making their opinion on the matter crystal clear as well.