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Killer Whale kills again

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Phormat
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/24/killer.whale.trainer.death/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

Ok acrobatics and shit are cool to watch, but honestly are you surprised? A 6 ton apex predator stuck in a tiny tank with fucking human parasites harassing it all day to swim through rings and do flippys all day.
Feb 24 2010 4:10PM
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Black-Bandanna
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Was the trainer Japanese?
Feb 24 2010 4:12PM
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T-Holt
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FUCKA ROOO WHALEEEE
Feb 24 2010 4:13PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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Damn, shit happened like an hour ago.
Feb 24 2010 4:13PM
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Ian.Ham
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damn i expected a video
Feb 24 2010 4:13PM
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-Mugatu
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the person had it coming to them. dont fuck with anything that has "killer" in its name.
Feb 24 2010 4:13PM
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Phormat
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That would be retribution for the Cove, but it happened at Sea World, so I am guessing its unlikely.
Feb 24 2010 4:13PM
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B4NE1
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I was just there less than a week ago at the Shamu show.
Feb 24 2010 4:19PM
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T-Holt
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But in all seriousness, that's a tragedy.
Feb 24 2010 4:21PM
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skituner
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RIP but seriously they shouldn't be in captivity anyways, its not surprising shit like this happens
Feb 24 2010 4:21PM
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jakepwilliams
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whales know about women and kitchens..
Feb 24 2010 4:26PM
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VT_FLO
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it is a -Killer- whale
Feb 24 2010 4:28PM
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sk1er
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haha. Can we call this natural selection? Or social darwinism at work?
Feb 24 2010 4:30PM
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Brenone
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^^
Feb 24 2010 4:30PM
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Tasche
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These things routinely kill Sperm Whales. They are the greatest hunters on the planet. RIP to the trainer. But seriously although these animals can be trained they are viscous mother fuckers. They will attack seals and take them out to deep water still alive then throw them in the air and fuck with them until they die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8tUvVsXFYM

Feb 24 2010 4:37PM
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[~_~]
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Serves the "trainer" right.

Go whale! Fuck shit upp
Feb 24 2010 4:39PM
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ski_ENDUB
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no kidding, killer whales are the one of two animals that are known to kill for sport.
Feb 24 2010 4:53PM
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Cheezcake.
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true, it was a killer whale. it kills things. But why the fuck are a bunch of you celebrating this? "ooh go whale!" that person had a family you soulless fucks. I pray to god for the sake of all humanity that you're all trolling and you don't honestly think this.
Feb 24 2010 4:56PM
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[~_~]
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Not to sound like a filthy hippy, but I'm pretty sure the whale didn't deserve to be exploited by a bunch of soulless humans. Theme parks that use captive animals for entertainment are fucked, which is why I have zero sympathy.
Feb 24 2010 5:08PM
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Tasche
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Spare us the bleeding heart shit dood. If you see a kid fucking with a dog and he gets bit your like "serves him right". That whale has a family too. Or to be correct that Orca has a pod.

It sucks that someone died but if you play with fire you are going to get burned. It's not like she was walking on the beach and it attacked her. I feel bad for the people who had to watch that shit, scary animal should never be put in a tank.
Feb 24 2010 5:09PM
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Cheezcake.
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yeah, exactly why i said it's a killer whale, it kills things. this was eventually gonna happen if you cage a wild carnivore. Am i surprised and heartbroken that this happened? no. Shit happens. Is it funny to say, "fuck yeah whale, you get that dumb bitch!"? No. That was the point i was trying to get at.
Feb 24 2010 5:13PM
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Motes
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damn
Feb 24 2010 5:19PM
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sk1er
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when i read the article i lawled. So that means its funny right?
Feb 24 2010 5:19PM
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[~_~]
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The point I was trying to make is that this wasn't a matter of pure chance. In this case, shit didn't "just happen;" a wild animal did its thing. If I were a captive whale, I would've done the same.

This is just like the circus elephant in Honolulu that escaped in 1994. It killed its trainer, and took off into the streets in an angry rampage. Anybody who thinks the elephant didn't have every right to do that is delusional. The same applies to the whale.
Feb 24 2010 5:20PM
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-Mugatu
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but what about male models?...



















jk.
Feb 24 2010 5:22PM
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Balto
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holy shit
Feb 24 2010 5:24PM
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geteducated
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i don't care about any of this, but to educated some people,

a killer whale is not a 'whale', its a porpoise.


Feb 24 2010 5:25PM
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Dick_Buttkiss
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NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMN

Feb 24 2010 5:26PM
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Dick_Buttkiss
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^ Picture of said whale
Feb 24 2010 5:28PM
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.travis.
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you fail
Feb 24 2010 5:37PM
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geteducated
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maybe in spelling but not for content!
Feb 24 2010 5:41PM
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.travis.
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Word to that!
Feb 24 2010 5:44PM
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Randy_Quench
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My dad heard about this and comes to me asking me to find a video of it happening on the Internet.. With all those people at the show that shits bound to hit YouTube.
Feb 24 2010 6:13PM
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kingsskier
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Quote taken from my sister, but I feel the same way: "Animals this smart should not be in captivity. First of all, the way they obtain the animals is awful. Also, the whales are deprived food so they will do their tricks in order to be fed. The chemicals in the water make it impossible for the whales to use their ecolocation, so they are pretty much swimming blindly around a pool that is entirely too small for them. I do feel bad that this trainer has died, but I hope people learn from this. Seaworld better not kill this whale because this happens."

My addition:
"If they kill the whale, Ill be pissed. Its like me bringing a bear into my house and it eating me and saying its the bears fault. Its a wild animal, they stole it out of its home, Id eat me too... Bring it to a rehabilitation center and release it after it knows how to live in the wild again. It won't have any problem with trying to play with people in its NATURAL environment where there are no people."
Feb 24 2010 6:31PM
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Tasche
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This is what they should do

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Feb 24 2010 6:37PM
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jason...
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FFFUUUUCCCKKK YOU DORPHIN, AND FUCK YOU WHARE.
Feb 24 2010 6:42PM
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notomatoplz
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i agree with you, but im just curious as to how the chemicals get in the way of the whales echolocation?
Feb 24 2010 6:48PM
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ski_ENDUB
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definitely watching this on netflix tonight
Feb 24 2010 6:50PM
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Jamestown
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I'm a Pisces, but I'd rather be a Killa Whale,
Feb 24 2010 6:54PM
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kingsskier
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its all the compounds they use to make it artificial salt water, the sound waves don't bounce back to them.
Feb 24 2010 7:04PM
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sk1er
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I dont believe this. I did a quick google search and the first 5 articles talked about studying echolocation with whales/porpoises in captivity.
Feb 24 2010 7:15PM
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Red_Shirt
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Damnit! a few posts too late.
Feb 24 2010 7:45PM
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kingsskier
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after my quick google search I found that the chemicals and confined area either make the sound waves bounce back much too soon and loud and make the animals go deaf, or it is too dense and muffles the sound to the point that they can't locate it back and renders it useless.
It is up to a matter of people fighting for or against it, but out of the many people I have talked to they all say it ruins their echolocation. People being, my sister is a marine biology major and works at an aquarium, so her and I have talked to many of the marine biologists at the aquarium behind the scenes. Also, I have a friend who is a biology grad student and says the same thing.
So, it just comes down to the people who you believe and talk to I guess.
Feb 24 2010 9:32PM
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sk1er
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Word, im no expert but i just doubt that the molecules in the water have that big of an effect on echolocation. Id agree that echolocations useless given the size of the cage and makes them go deaf and such. But saying that chemicals in the water have an affect on echolocation just seems like an environmentalist claim. That would mean in the wild the animals would be significantly affected by things like algae blooms, sediments, and dissolved particles in the water. Im sure these have an effect but i dont think it would be that significant or solely render their echolocation systems useless. im not hatin or anything just my non scientific thoughts on the matter
Feb 24 2010 10:03PM
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seemeski
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They're going to euthanize the whale!!! What the fuck, they take a wild animal into captivity, a killer whale, and when it KILLS someone they euthanize it? With logic like this, we're fucked.
Feb 24 2010 11:14PM
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kingsskier
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Yeah I am very against this. I just read the other day that a bear was hunted down and shot because it got into someone's garbage and ended up eating their bunny that they keep OUTSIDE. I think the owners of the rabbit should have been punished not the bear. They basically left a platter out for the bear and said, it can't escape, here ya go. If you live where bears live, don't keep animals outside unsupervised. Common sense.
But, I have ranted on the whale being euthanized above lol. Just another rant.
Feb 24 2010 11:30PM
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i0z
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if you read the whole article it says this whale killed a guy before. a guy who hid in the park till it closed then jumped in the tank with the whale. man this whale owns people.
Feb 24 2010 11:32PM
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kingsskier
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I read the whole thing too...
But lets recap. It freaked out and killed a trainer and killed a RETARD who decided to swim with a KILLER whale unsupervised. It also said it he died of hypothermia and the whale just thought he/his swimwear was a toy. All in all the whale is +1 in my book. Even for the trainer, because yeah its unfortunate and sad, don't keep whales captive, and the +1 for ridding this earth of a stupid person. Give this whale some fish bonus or something
Feb 24 2010 11:38PM
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-Mugatu
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the thing is a cereal killer. BOSS.
Feb 24 2010 11:40PM
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ShoulderSurfer
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8537996.stm

above is a follow up to the killer whale story. they won't kill it, wont move it. everything is just going to resume back to normal.
Feb 26 2010 11:40AM
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feihlination
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to be honest, i dont kno too much about this whole thing, but what i know is that she drowned. DROWNED. i think that if a 6 ton killer whale wants to kill you they have to get your remainders out of the pool with a fucking sieve.

Feb 26 2010 11:51AM
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