Man fucks with whale....whale dies.

[spanone]

They just announced that the whale from the Thames river died after they hauled him into a boat and showed him the way home.

Earlier today, CNN had a 'name the whale' contest. I hope they got him named before he died.
:sarcasm:

[patrice]

1. Shit!!!

And what was the problem with just leaving him there? Some inconvenience to Man I bet.

[Raine]

26. Whale couldn't live in the Thames

a whale needs the ocean, they were trying to help it.

[Silverhair]

28. And what is the whale going to eat in the Thames?

It would die of starvation.

[patrice]

29. Oh, right . . . .

stupid me.

So, since the whale was going to die in the river, they were taking a gamble on succeeding in freeing it, but they and the whale lost.

Man, that's so sad I don't like even thinking about it.

[Bucky]

30. I could think of a few candidate to keep him well fed

Tewny Bleh Tony Blair, for starters.

[Kagemusha]

2. The whale got real ill before they tried this in desperation.

It's worth recalling that the Thames is not the healthiest water on this big blue sphere of ours.

[Coexist]

3. I am no marine biologist - but I doubt the whale could have

survived in definitely in the Thames.
http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=332704&lng=1
<snip>
"It was very much alien territory for the Northern Bottle Nose and experts warned it would die unless it returned to the open. But it became clear the giant mammal had become too exhausted and disoriented to do this by itself and would need help."



The people who tried to rescue it hardly seem like cruel corporatists.

http://www.bdmlr.org.uk/pages/main.html

[JVS]

5. What she said

[spanone]

6. I blamed no one. Cruel corporatists????

Maybe the whale was fucking with us?

[Coexist]

9. I just meant that all involved had the best interest of the whale in mind

and they didn't mess with it out of anything but necessity.

[progressivebydesign]

4. How sad.. I heard he was very ill already. n/t

[Inland]

7. Winning name:

"Lucky"

[hopein08]

27. Was the honestly the name?

Not that I doubt you (and I hope I'm not being gullible and naive)...it's just amazing how low these channels will stoop for these stupid stories.

[Inland]

34. No, I was referencing an old joke:

a handbill posted on a telephone pole:

LOST DOG

Brown with scabs

One Eye

Tail Missing

Walks with Limp

Answers to "Lucky"

[AGKISTRODON]

8. Saline content

Whales cannot live long in fresh water, they need salt water. Only exception I know of is the river dolphins in South America. There was already something wrong with this whale, I think folks did the best they could.

[Caoimhe]

11. Plus it might be a stretch to call the Thames "fresh"

It has to be a polluted mess.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Not as bad as it used to be

Salmon swim up it, and seals and dolphins are occasionally seen in the stretch where the whale was. But the whale normally feeds in the deep Atlantic - it was a long way from its normal habitat.

With 120 fish species, hundreds of thousands of birds, and a thriving fishing industry, the river now ranks among the cleanest metropolitan tideways in the world.

Ecologists say the Thames owes its revival to pollution control, which has vastly improved water quality.

Commercial fishers are among those reaping the benefits today, taking impressive hauls of eel, sea bass, and Dover sole, said Steven Colclough, a fisheries scientist with the U.K. government's Environment Agency. Colclough said the river is now the largest Dover sole fishery in England and Wales.

The fisheries scientist added that flounder, mullet, and smelt—now present throughout London—are being joined by fish that only tolerate waters untainted by pollution.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0421_050422_riverthames.html

[sweetheart]

25. I think people remember it before they left to the US colonies

and back then, it was apparently even the bane of parliament on
stinky summer's night.

They tell quite a yarn about the stink at the tower of london
tour at the thames gate. :-)

There are cinema misconceptions spread about europe in the US,
watching too many history channel episodes and not getting
with the now.

[AGKISTRODON]

13. Frustrating, but you gotta try

I've been involved in wildlife rescue for many years, it is always heartbreaking to lose one, but you just can't give up.

[Bucky]

31. True. But how long before AnnCoulter argues this is proves welfare state

is making whales dependenct on Greenpeace handouts, or some such blather.

[wakeme2008]

10. per the Marine vets the whale was in better shape

than they thought before they started the barge attempt.

I have been watching this on and off all morning on CNN.

It is just sad that the whale did not make the 40+ mile barge trip :cry:

[xchrom]

12. that is so sad -- and unlike you

i wish they had intervened sooner.

[Beam Me Up]

14. Do you know what "fuck" means? It isn't just any old thing you are too

lazy to find a legitimate verb for.

[spanone]

18. Always been a legitimate verb to me.

:)

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Though I don't know what you mean by it

Since you think it means something without blame - and I would have said "to fuck with" means to interfere, to screw up. Do you really use it to mean "to try to help"?

[Bucky]

33. Good fuck there, BeamMeUp. You fucked the OP good there. Fuckin' A.

Well, I'm finished fucking around here. Guess it's time for me to fuck off and go take care of some shit.

[TahitiNut]

36. !

:rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. i see it as man attempting to save a sick whale. Apparently he had

an infection beneath his left eye and was extremely scarred up. I think you are being a little bit harsh over a legitimate rescue attempt.

[PaulaFarrell]

17. Hadn't he already tried to beach himself a couple if times?

He would have died anyway without help. It's sad but these whale rescues don't work all that often. Still you gotta try.

[leftchick]

19. blame the fucking sonar they were using at the time he got lost

that is apparently what drove him upriver, offcourse and injured him. MFers.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Source? I hadn't heard that anywhere. (n/t)

[leftchick]

23. I heard it on either a BBC or CNNI report on tv yesterday

they said the use of sonar by the military in the area was the most likely reason for the whale to be so far off course and for its apparent injuries. I would guess that they have since scrubbed it.

[Catherine Vincent]

22. you scared me the way you worded your heading

The poor thing.

[f-bush]

24. Catchy Title

[Bucky]

32. Really. When I first read it, I missed the word "with" and got an image...

...a very bad image in my head.

[lonestarnot]

35. heh heh heh, I don't think it was there.... you been punked.