The killing of Cecil the Lion was a tragic event that offended and upset many people, including celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel, Betty White, and Cara Delevingne. Now, you can bring up all those terrible feelings again come Halloween with this truly horrific costume of Cecil the Lion's killer from Costumeish.
The costume we still can't believe exists includes the decapitated head of a lion and dentist scrubs splattered with blood. There's a chest pocket printed with a bloody tooth and the text, "Dr. Killer Driller / Agonizing Pain Guaranteed." The description of the costume seems to make light of the situation involving the beloved lion's death. "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," the site writes.
The only silver lining to this story is that the Costumeish has yet to sell even one Walter Palmer costume as of yesterday, TMZ reports. The site's CEO Johnathon Weeks tells TMZ that 15 percent of the proceeds made off this costume will go to the African Wildlife Foundation "Justice for Cecil."
Halloween is still a ways away, but this is already the second extremely offensive costume retailers are attempting to profit off. Earlier this week, Spirit started offering a Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume.
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