Costumeish.com CEO JOnathon Weeks told TMZ that since it went live Tuesday morning, none have been sold.
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The seller at Costumeish.com describes Palmer’s bow-and-arrow conquering of Cecil as the year’s “most controversial killing” while labeling his detractors as “an outraged mob”.
The Eden Prairie dentist who killed a famed lion while on a safari hunt in Zimbabwe last month, setting off a global furor, has gained Halloween immortality.
The costume comes with a severed lion’s head mask, bloody smock, bloody gloves, and dentist tools in the front pocket.
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 description of the costume on their website reads: “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. Halloween is a really tricky day and you see some of the costumes come about and it’s nearly like desensitising things”. In some weird attempt to prove that they have a heart, the company says that 15 percent of all proceeds will go to a wildlife foundation.
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Palmer used a bow and a gun to kill the now-famous lion – with the bushy black mane, its head and skin eventually cut off as trophies.
