assilem

I just saw this video of a killer whale attacking a trainer at Sea World. Pretty scary. Here is the link.

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Trisk

People always get mad at me for taking the side of the animal in things like this....but we can't always hope to understand wild animals and this is a risk people *know* they're taking by having a job where they work with animals.
Sometimes animals will show their wild side. I hope they understand this and give the whale another chance before putting him to sleep or something.

assilem

My thoughts exactly. I always side with the animal. They don't know any better. We do.

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Journeyman

Oh wow, what a vicious attack. The brutality has penetrated my very soul.

Honestly, if I was the trainer, I would be shitting my wetsuit and fearing for my life. But if I was a whale who wanted to actually kill or hurt the trainer... well:


Someone's actually considering killing the whale over this?

Trisk

I don't know, but that seems to be a common response to animal attacks

yabobo

Bottom line .......
Still a wild animal at heart
We have intefeard in its life.

I had a pet skunk. I am well educated in an animals wild behavior.

As long as we hold such animals as pets or worse for show
accidents will happen and most of the time the animal
will soon be put down..

Willy was upset but the trainer saw this and took appropriate
action. I'm happy at this time that no one was hurt.

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Glava

They're called killer whales for a reason.

bernadette

this doesn't really seem like a nonsense topic...

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paddyjoe

especially if that whale woulda opened his mouth and bit that idiots head off there at the end

first the tiger in Vegas says enough is enough, and now this.

fuckin animal world is tired of jumpin through hoops for our amusement.

Fly

i'd have to agree.........leave 'em alone and let's just get on with it.

no need to piss mother nature off any more than we already have.

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vermin

Then again, this might be a good opportunity to see if whale is as tasty as the Eskimos would have us believe. I recently ran across a fish recipe I've been wanting to try...*

(attempting to restore some nonsense to this nonsense thread}


*see tilted artwork

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Munku

Something's wrong.. Something's wrong.. Something's wrong.. I know Mike you don't have to say it 3 times.

Funny wife I'll say.

assilem

Me either. It got moved and nobody let me know. I had to do a search for it. Oh well.

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Fly

hehehhee..........you're awesome man....i think i know of what you speak.

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unoaman

Vermin, was that for fried or baked? You can have the blubber, but I get the hide. Always wanted a whale skin rug.

bernadette

i saw an interview on television the following morning.
the trainer said he was not scared at all.
he added that the whale was approaching puberty... so that may have been part of it.

heck, i think the whale just wanted to play. the clip on tv looked far less scary.

everybody gets tired of working.
even trained whales sometimes say "eff this job. time for some FUN biatch!"

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