Shouldn’t be illegal.
Cut him some slack, what guy doesn’t want a piece of tail now and again.
Well, haven’t we all made that mistake? I mean under English common law whales that wash ashore are the King’s property, but really I’m clueless about American law on the subject.
“I didn’t know it was illegal” .
He’s lucky the cops took him away. Before the whale-hugging PETA doofuses got to him.
Did I just miss that or is journalism really that piss-poor these days?
Well, was the whale alive or dead at the time? Seems a pretty important point, but the story doesn’t say.
We should be allowed to hack up a dead whale and eat it — that’s recycling. Hacking a live whale’s tail off, on the other hand, seems a bit extreme.
Exactly what law did he violate?
Washed up whale in Florida? Is that why Rosie has a big bandage on her leg in recent pictures?
Well, that’s whale of a tail, young man!
It could be worse. He could have stepped on a turtle egg. I think that’s a capital offense in Fla. these days.
why would it be illegal to cut up a dead fish?
Ewe! I’d expect the tail to be like pig’s feet. I would have been mining for the fillet.
Was the Whale alive? Must have been...or do we have to be careful of all washed ashore dead or alive sea life, like jelly fish, etc. Lordy?
Maybe beached whales are considered the state’s property, so cutting its tail off would be theft from the state? I can’t think of any other reason this would be illegal.
But, really, arresting the guy? That’s a bit much. I’d hardly consider him a dangerous crook for making a mistake any beachcomber could make.
When I was a kid, my family got yelled at by the South Carolina cops for making our sand castle too big.
I don’t think this sort of thing happens often. I would just call it a fluke.
This one has me flummoxed. A dead whale is sacrosanct in FL? Shoosh, just call up all the sushi joints and that whale would be gone in about a half an hour. Save the taxpayers a ton of money removing the carcass. So what is the real problem here?
darn poachers!