Posted on 09/02/2009 11:02:47 PM PDT by george76
A harbour seal leapt from the water and dragged a five-year-old girl off a dock at a marina in West Vancouver ...
"When she popped to the surface, she said, 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, the seal!' ...
A neighbour on a nearby boat then told Cunning a seal had jumped out of the water and pulled Caleigh from the dock.
"This thing must have taken a running start to be able to launch itself four feet out of the water, grab a 50-pound five-year-old and then drag her underneath the water with a life-jacket on," .
He initially thought his daughter's hand was broken because it was badly swollen and bleeding with four large puncture wounds at the base of her wrist.
Cunning said he has heard of seals attacking small dogs on leashes and dragging them into the water to eat them, but never attacking a child.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Thank God she had the life-jacket on
Paging Chet.
I wonder how a seal tastes..
lucky to be alive
Harbor seals look cute but they were always pooping on our boat’s swim platform, and is you coiled your rope on the dock they liked to poop on it too.
Mmmm...seal
I find myself suddenly viewing seal hunters in a new light
“I wonder how a seal tastes..”
Why, like chicken, of course!
A bit like manatee
It tastes fishy because that's about all they eat (except for little dogs, etc...)
“I wonder how a seal tastes..”
Like dead meat.
A fifty pound five-year-old???
That’s about the right weight. In California you have to reach 6 years or 60 pounds to ride without a car seat.
Cute as a baby bear, lion cub or any critter that will “Shred” a screaming baby human without a bit of remorse. Just food.
My seven year old (tall for her age) is not yet 50 pounds...Not to say a seal couldn’t drag her where he wanted, I guess it just surprised me...
There was a biologist killed by a seal in Antarctica a few years back.
The ecos and the media have created this fake Disney Land imagine of wildlife.
This just happened to Buster on Arrested Development! (hulu.com) Cayleigh was very lucky.
Its the radiation from the nuclear bombs during WWII Its now in the water, and has caused the seals to mutate and attack human kind, An entire race of giant mutant seals now live in the depth of the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, They scour the earth seeking their innocent prey
I wonder how a seal tastes..
Like chicken. Except Christmas seals. They taste like turkey and dressing.
What is on her hand in the June 21 photo? Looks like a large square chunk is missing from her hand. What's that about?
Meat isn't "dead" until it's cooked however, and seal tastes nothing like beef meat.
The taste depends on what part of the seal you eat; the raw muscle "meat" parts taste like salty sushi.
Inuit don't say "wanna eat some seal meat"? They just call it seal, as in "wanna eat some seal"? liver, brain, eyes, liver, heart, flipper each has it's own taste, and has a strong "ocean smell" to it, like concentrated ocean.
I wonder how a seal tastes..
With it’s mouth.
Duh.
I believe that was an attack by a southern elephant seal, a carnivore that can weigh up to five tons (yes, really). That would be literally 50 times the size of most of the harbour seals around Vancouver.
Not that I wouldn't keep a prudent distance from harbour seals.
Good thing that leopard seals live in the Antarctic, well away from most humans. They are large, aggressive predators that have hunted and killed people before.
” There was a biologist killed by a seal....”
Did the seal club the biologist to death,, quick outlaw seals
All they needed was a lead filled snow shoe.
When we were kids we were taught to have a healthy respect for ‘wild’ animals.
Cross between a Spotted Owl and a Bald Eagle.
Talk about putting your manhood out there!
Damn Pit Seal’s.
How about Easter seals?
Ham. :o)
lol
If it was that big and powerful, I would doubt it was a seal, but a sea lion.
People think that they’re cute and cuddly, but short of killer whales and big sharks, they’re the top predator in the northern waters.
Mark
looks like a stamp kids play with.
So this child was the victim of adults allowing her to feed a wild predator. People can be really stupid around animals.
nope...it was his willie...at least that was what she told Oprah.
probably the most well known case of jungle fever ever
Spike would be livid..lol
A harbor seal can get to about 6 feet and 300 lbs. Way smaller than a seal lion, but big enough to get you.
You got that right, it would have turned out very badly had she not been wearing it.
I guess we're lucky up here. The seals (sea lions) on the Columbia River seem to just eat salmon and sturgeon and the enviros scream bloody murder when a few seals are killed for it. They'd probably scream just as loud for killing seals that attacked people because the seals were here first, go figure.
“Spoken like a leftwing moonbat vegan”
You’ve spoken like the village idiot. In case you’ve failed to notice, a lot of FReepers were being a little jocular in their moments, as was I.
My post, in particular, expressed the idea that if any seal bit my child, it would be dead meat, hence the comment.
Sounds like you’ve eaten seal meat. If so, was it just to sample, or did you eat it often?
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