Whale Watchers...

[cvm4]

...see a whale harpooned instead :headroll: I wonder if they got their money back :dunno:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070825p2a00m0na039000c.html

 

[caudio51]

I shouldn't be laughing but I find that funny too

 

[Rich K]

That's pretty messed up, right there.

 

[Benzopyrene]

I was kinda hopin for a video!

 

[TexaSmoke]

I shouldn't be laughing but I find that funny too

I know what you mean, but its funny.

 

[ATCDub]

I was worried about this for a brief moment, that is until I was it wasn't in NSFW. I wonder if future excursions will have discounted therapy with the purchase price.

 

[dpricenator]

That is comedy

 

[cvm4]

That is comedy

You just can't make this stuff up :innocent:

 

[tubaman]

I've been on a whale watch and it's really cool to do. It would be weird being on one and seeing it being killed.

 

[preembargo]

Good grief! Whaling is legal in Japan so what did they expect when they went whale watching in Japan? It wouldn't surprise me if some of those tourists went to some trendy restaurant that night night and dined on the Japanese delicacy.

 

[Broadway Joe]

Mommy...Mommy... Look at that whale, it's following that boat!

 

[tedski]

Pretty bad timing right there ...

 

[Cigar_Jack]

I'm not an animal rights activist and do go hunting, but whaling is one of those areas where I agree with the animal rights activists.

 

[jwintosh]

i think it's pretty stupid to bring a passenger vessel along side a whaler. what were they expecting??

 

[Headbanger]

Sad coincidence but not funny to me.

 

[preembargo]

I'm not an animal rights activist and do go hunting, but whaling is one of those areas where I agree with the animal rights activists.

I'm with you, I'm for responsible conservation but I'm no animal rights activist. In fact, I was a commercial fisherman and diver for more than 10 years.


**rant on**
Having said that, I've watched a Whale hunt unfold live on TV when the Macah Indians won the right to 'subsistence hunt' Gray Whales in Washington State. It was incredibly brutal, horrific even.

BUT, The Japanese consider whale to be a delicacy and can legally hunt. It's asinine for these 'eco' tourists to go whale watching in a place where they should have expected to see a legal hunt take place and then proclaim their shock and horror. The parents who brought their children should be ashamed of themselves.

And the skippers of those charters are idiots for not turning those boats around as soon they saw the whalers on their radar.
**rant off**

 

[Cigar_Jack]

On a side not preembargo, I love the Spurgeon quote. He's one of the great theologians.

 

[preembargo]

Spurgeon, Moody, and Graham.