Posted on 05/04/2008 6:49:09 PM PDT by Bean Counter
State and federal authorities said they are investigating the deaths of six sea lions found dead at the Columbia River traps.
They appeared to have been shot.
The bodies of four California sea lions and two Steller sea lions were found at the traps early Sunday afternoon.
There were two California sea lions and one Steller sea lion at each of two traps just below the Bonneville Dam.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and federal investigators are treating the area as a crime scene.
Both species of sea lion are federally protected but Oregon and Washington state are trapping some California sea lions to keep them from eating salmon at the dam.
Bad juju here, and there is some local out there who is about to have the Federal Gubment crawling all over him...
Developing...
Sounds like the work of a seriously disturbed person to me.
Good start...I’ll bet it was an Indian.
What kind of traps were they?
No salmon for you!
“I’ll bet it was an Indian.”
I’m sorry to say,,,,, but that was my first thought.
reason: world-wide Herring depletion...
I hope so. Somebody’s got to do it. We need more insurgents now.
My guess too , based on the clean get away , and being an Indian myself . Okay , I speak with fork tongue .
While I agree that the shooter is seriously disturbed I think he’s disturbed by the fact that all salmon fishing has been shut down out here. So while people can’t have the salmon the sea lions can. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were doing what they’ve always done but the danged things have just recently found out they can swim upstream a couple of hundred miles and eat all the salmon they want.
Mmmmmmmm.... Sea Lion
We need to spend 10 or maybe 15 billion dollars on this problem. Are the seals stressed? We just do not know. I can take control of this obvious crisis. I need 125.5 million dollars to set up my research center. There was a great thread on bad beer so I really want to see the effects of drunk guys on fish and/or mammals. I will need a brewery and the swedish bikini team to make sure we have drunk guys. Hmm..I really don’t need you guys.
Or backlash against all the enviro-insanity that’s been going on lately.
I suspect there’s a market for a video game that focused on killing endangered species and brutalizing enviroweenies.
Characterize the Sierra club/Audubon folks as metrosexuals or worse. Hunting zones for baby seals, harbor seals, spotted owls, Grey wolves, Red wolves, Humpback whales, etc.
Weapons would be an assortment of guns including .50 cal, riot guns, clubs and harpoons.
It’s almost sacrilegious to conceive of such a game.
No chain retailer would carry it but there’s probably a huge internet market via gun, hunting and fishing business’s.
Federal protection doesn't amount to much, does it.
‘The traps are too far from the bank for anyone other than a trained sniper to get a killing shot, much less six...”
Trained sniper? huh, how far are they from shore. Unless they are 500-600 yards most anyone could make the shot.
How do we know the seals didn’t shoot themselves?
Why not? America’s Army is virtually free and you get to gun down ethnic terrorists. Using the engine, a mod could be built to allow environmental activists as player models. It would be easier under unreal Tournament 3, which comes with modding/mapping tools pre-installed. UT3 is also better for vehicle combat, so you could roll a tank into a PETA office. Any other geeks here on FR want to help me? I’m no good at scripting, but i can map a little.
Obviously we need more gun control.
I saw a t-shirt in the window of a store in Pismo Beach, CA no less, that said "Save the Trees Wipe Your Ass With a Spotted Owl." So I think you are on to something.....
Beak placement is a crucial factor to the success of that product.
Go for it. I was having this conversation with some folks last night. There’s every manner of violent video games out there with blood, death, murder, etc. that society accepts and doesn’t bat an eye.
Market one that skewers their sacred environmental cows and there’d be outrage.
Here’s another, create one that is the cyber equivalent of Karl Rove’s weather machine. Flood them out in coastal areas. cause famines in Europe, war in Asia all the while the USA is surging in prosperity.
I was thinking a murder/suicide. Maybe a jealous rage. I’d also check to see if at least one of the seals was on prozac.
In a fit of depression over the Wright Obama saga, a group of seals and sea lions formed a suicide pact to end it all before Hillary overtook Obamao...the thought was...more then they could Bear....
“We need to spend 10 or maybe 15 billion dollars on this problem. Are the seals stressed? We just do not know. I can take control of this obvious crisis. I need 125.5 million dollars to set up my research center. There was a great thread on bad beer so I really want to see the effects of drunk guys on fish and/or mammals. I will need a brewery and the swedish bikini team to make sure we have drunk guys. Hmm..I really don’t need you guys.”
I am world famous for the study I did on blind lesbian ground squirrels and I brew great beer. Oh, and I’m married so you ca have the Swedish bikini team. I only need one million a year for expenses.
I remember some comments here on FR criticizing the locals for not taking action a long tome ago. Government controlled by envrio extremists has all the blame.
How do we know the seals didn’t shoot themselves?
We are not at this time going to make a statement. It is fragile. Ther are several factors that you have not concidered. Was it a spawn Of Flipper? We just do not know. I need $1633.44 for the initial investigation. That will only cover the beer for my team, so we will have to raise your taxes a whole lot. But it is for the ____
Hmm prozac or all of the birth control hormones that flow into the river left them confused and feeling blue, they decided to end it all but Willie the Otter chickened out...
Just taking care of business.
I got it! The mistook the wake of a nearby boat for the tail of a comet and initiated their suicide pact.
People are getting tired of animals who are not endangered being on the list, and now they want to add Polar Bears, who are in no danger what so ever of becoming extinct any time soon.
Some people think it is time to think of people welfare a little more and to stop worrying about animal welfare a little less.
Remember this is California so are you sure beer is what you need? Wine may be more appropriate.
How do we know the enviro-nuts didn't shoot them in order to place blame on local fishermen and garner sympathy for more federal protection for the seals and everything else wild?
Apparently you are not aware that CA is full of beer drinking rednecks. It is just that at elections we are outnumbered by illegals and dead Democrats.
Hmmmm?!?!?!
Sea Lions, Palestinians of the *Pacific*.
Just a misunderstood, aquatic breed of peace.
The Federal Government has issued a statement that it definitely wasn’t terrorism.
Gotta' be something.
WA Ping
Sounds like the work of someone who is sick of having the sea lions destroy their traps and nets and eat all their fish.
P.S. The best thing you can di if you find an endangered species on your property is to run it off. If it won’t leave, kill it and bury it.
Fort Bragg, California ?????
Yes, Fort Bragg California. Look it up on a map, it is an ex-fishing town on the coast, a good deal north of San Francisco.
Well SOB. Is it an ‘ex-fishing’ town because of the sea lions?
My thoughts too and good for him These salmon chomping sea lions are mega pests and need to die. The world isn't running out of sea lions
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