Posted on 01/15/2006 6:47:42 AM PST by paltz
"...when a Japanese whale harpoon was launched across an inflatable boat in the Antarctic seas yesterday. The incident has forced Greenpeace to rethink their human shield style protest against Japanese scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean..."
Ya think?
Damn--that Jap needs to go back to harpoon aiming school!!
Why?
I suspect a cannon-fired harpoon would make pretty short work of an inflatable watercraft.
One of the tricks I've heard the whalers use is hooking the high-pressure hoses to the bilge pumps. Imagine what the bilge discharge from a whaling vessel must smell like!
Exactly!
"Couldn't this whole problem be solved with a pellet gun (noting the inflatable boats) ?"
i dont think that would work. due to the composition of the polymers in the zodiac.high powered rifle would be the way to go
Headline: Whaler misses Greenpeace activist. Accidentally harpoons minke whale.
Can he still claim to be a vegetarian?
I don't want to defend Greenpeace, who are a communist front organization masquerading as environmentalists, but the Japanese are not hunting Minke whales for "research". They are doing it to keep their whaling industry alive. It's purely economics. Economics is fine. I'm all for economics, but whaling is an ugly business that I would like to see end once and for all. Yes, because I like whales.
Glad that you said that.
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