Sea Shepherd lodges piracy charge against Japanese ship

Herald Sun (Australia) ^ | January 9, 2010

[mnehring]

The video makes it obvious the Sea Shepard rammed that ship, either by negligence or on purpose.. either way, I hope those hippies one day have a face of with Somali pirates. I would pay to watch that.

[mnehring]

Bob Barker (the game show guy) bought them a $5Million dollar boat.

[Ikemeister]

After watching these creeps on their TV show, I was pleased to see them finally get what was coming to them. Maybe Japan should dispatch some warships to protect their whalers and blast these guys out of the water.

[boatbums]

Do they doofuses think a large ship has BRAKES? Guess what, you pull in front of them to try and stop them, you are going to get run over! You DO NOT cross in front of a forward moving vessel, they have right of way. I'm only a has-been boater and even I know that! The Sea Shepherd is liable, not the whaler.

[Gator113]

A number of years ago, I had the displeasure of meeting Paul Watson, the Capt. of the Sea Shepherd. Watson and his crew were arrogant jerks to the extreme.

I wouldn’t have had any problem if the Japanese had sent those boats to the bottom.

[Charles Martel]

I wish I could find a feeble old game show host who would give me 5 million to buy one of those fancy, high speed Batman boats. I sure as hell wouldn’t drive it around any Japanese whalers though.

The ship that Bob bought for these numbskulls is still afloat. For now.

[null and void]

Bingo. The side flying the skull and crossbones accuses the other side of piracy!

[Palladin]

Trust fund idiots playing pirate—what did they think would happen?

[Travis McGee]

20,000 tons of steel meets 20 tons of plastic.

Guess who wins.

[robomatik]

do you have a link to the video on youtube?

[The Good Doctor]

I'm so looking forward to the new season as the Japanese pull up whale after whale while the enviroterrorists impotently look on, crying their eyes out. Watching those losers' incompetent failures fills me with joy.

P.S. Does anybody really believe that fat bloviating slob captain is a vegan?

[roses of sharon]

For self-proclaimed pirates these guys are a whiny bunch.

Suicidal too.

[Godzilla]

The sea shepard nutz were flying the jolly roger and had it on their boat’s ‘fins’. Nautically, a ship flying those colors are by definition a pirate. Doubt that the dutch have jurisdiction over that part of the ocean anyway.

[Craigon]

Morons were trying to drag a cable around the ship to entangle its prop and rudder. Plus the story says their state of the art boat was capable of 50 knots. Good luck with that Japanese piracy charge y’all. lol

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/la-fg-whalers-clash-pictures,0,4798468.photogallery?index=la-fg-whalers-clash03_kvtet3nc

[skeeter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkgUPNFCh4

[mikey_hates_everything]

Just like the mugger who becomes the poor victim when their victim pulls a gun and shoots him.

[Styria]

Even though it sank anyway, it’s too bad the whaler didn’t hit the pirate ship across one of those wings rather than cutting off the nose.

[skeeter]

But... then it woulda capsized.

Oh I get it.

[Dan Middleton]

Then the Japanese could compel the testimony of Lloyd’s Registry, to find out why an unseaworthy ship like the Ady Gil was permitted at sea,

The Ady Gil, under its previous ownership, set a record for circumnavigation of the world last year. It is very far from "unseaworthy."

In any case, this is a farce. A comparable situation would be me cutting off a semi on the interstate while driving a Ferrari and then blaming the trucker for running me over.

[qam1]

I don't get it. Didn't the crew of the Sea Shepherd love to portray themselves as pirates battling the Japanese whalers? And now they are leveling the charge of piracy against the whaling ship?

They are typical Liberals

What ever actions they do they are justified, but if someone uses the same tactics against them, then oh boy, here comes the whining