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Anti-whaling superboat sinks after Japanese collision
AFP via Yahoo News ^
| Fri Jan 8, 3:04 am
| Talek Harris
Posted on 01/08/2010 4:01:06 AM PST by TexasCajun
SYDNEY (AFP) A high-tech protest boat sank without trace on Friday after a dangerous collision with a Japanese whaling ship, as Australia protested to Tokyo over its fleet's alleged tactics.
Peter Hammarstedt, first officer of the Sea Shepherd group's "Bob Barker" ship, said the celebrated "Ady Gil" was abandoned overnight after a tow line snapped en route to an Antarctic research base.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: adygil; fools; haha; idiots; morons; oops; whaling
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AFP/HO/File This photo, taken on January 6 by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, shows the Sea Shepherd's
To: TexasCajun
Ship of Fools!
To: TexasCajun
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmm. Who funds a “high-tech protest boat”?
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:05:10 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
To: TexasCajun
Sea Shepard Capt. Paul Watson, Head Fool! ...risks the lives of his crew.
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:07:09 AM PST
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(If Obama is the answer, it must have been a stupid question!)
To: TexasCajun
I had to love that South Park had their “Whale Whore” episode about these jerks on Wed nite.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:08:59 AM PST
by
BallyBill
(WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
To: steelyourfaith
“Sea Shepherd claims to have saved hundreds of whales by chasing the Japanese fleet over a six-year campaign backed by Hollywood A-listers including Sean Penn, Martin Sheen and Pierce Brosnan.”
Who funds it? The usual suspects.
To: steelyourfaith
A-List Hollywood types including some guy named Ady Gil who donated this boat.
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
Paul Watson is such a fool and idiot that even Greenpeace has disowned him.
...now that's bad!
To: TexasCajun
If that’s the skipper, I’d hate to see the cabin boy.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:13:16 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Obey the law, or you'll go to prison and be raped.)
To: TexasCajun
Unsinkable? I work on boats and I suspect too much hubris in the design and not enough flotation pockets.
I have seen canoes cut in half that refuse to sink because of built in flotation such as being foam filled.
And this vessel was sent to one of the most dangerous parts on earth?
For whatever “save the whales” aspect this is surely stupidity clouding mens minds.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:14:44 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
To: TexasCajun
Well, now their little "Bat Boat" can spend the rest of its days among the "World's Most Expensive Man-Made Reefs."
:-)
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:17:13 AM PST
by
Gargantua
(Appropriate that the re-birth of our great nation be delivered by a woman.)
To: TexasCajun
Maybe Greenpeace should have named their boat the PT-109, it seems another skipper drove his boat out in front of the Japs during WW2.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:18:49 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: TexasCajun
The Whalers continue to own the protesters. Their tactic of chartering flights to scout out the location protesters’ ships was brilliant. What was even more brilliant was to send out the Shonan Maru 2 as a decoy for the protesters the chase around the empty sea for a couple of weeks.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:22:07 AM PST
by
Jeff Gordon
(Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: TexasCajun
Never bring fiber glass to a steel fight.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:22:46 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Free the Navy Seals)
To: TexasCajun
I know why he wants to save the wahles -
he is one himself!Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it!
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:23:01 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: TexasCajun
What complete moron builds a boat that looks like a whale and then uses it to annoy whalers?
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:24:52 AM PST
by
BuffaloJack
(Hoax and Chains is not the same as hope and change.)
To: WorkerbeeCitizen; steelyourfaith
Read the story, and your questions will be answered :)
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:25:17 AM PST
by
Doohickey
(I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
To: Eye of Unk
There is a series called Whaling Wars on the cable channel Animal Planet that documents Paul Watson's ego-fueled foolish engagements with the Japanese whaling fleet, risking the lives of his crew.
Whatever merit there is for their anti-whaling effort, it is lost on their pirate mentality and absurd stupidity.
To: Doohickey; WorkerbeeCitizen
The question was rhetorical, after all. :)
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:28:40 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
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