Posted on 09/14/2005 6:34:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) A group of raucous sea lions are on the agenda of the Newport Harbor Commission hearing today.
Officials are looking for ways to drive away the animals that's causing mayhem ever since they showed up in the harbor in May.
Residents say they bark all night long, and the city received a report that a rogue sea lion tipped over a mother and her child in their kayak.
One recent weekend, about 15 hefty sea lions managed to sink a 50-foot sailboat and owner Jerry Dunlap had to pay $3,500 to have it dragged up.
To protect themselves, some boat owners have strung barricades made of wire and milk carton around their crafts. Harbor officials are considering using underwater firecrackers, predator sounds, scarecrows and hiring a "sea lion shooer" to walk around banging a stick on the docks to disturb them.
My Grandpa used to shoot the ones that decided to use his dock as a nap site...
"One recent weekend, about 15 hefty sea lions managed to sink a 50-foot sailboat and owner Jerry Dunlap had to pay $3,500 to have it dragged up."
Are you sure these sea lions are not from the French Quarter ?
And thus the reign of the sea lions began....
LOL yes!
Like the "Empire of the Ants" only . . . nautical.
IIRC, there were several stories and great pics, here last here, abotu some little town in Cal, I think, that has several hundred sea lions that have taken over the boat basin..I tried" Search"..but no luck..
Better get rid of them now. If they stay long enough, the ecofascists will go to court and claim they are protected and Newport Harbor must be declared a refuge for them. Especially since N.B. is one of the wealthiest places in Republican Orange County.
You are probably right.
Sank a 50 foot sail boat? Remind me NOT to take that boat out to sea!
I, for one, welcome the reign of our Sea-Lion Masters!
(Simpsons-related joke for those of you who can't get it.)
All your boats are belong to our pineped overlords.
That was my first thought.
Sea Lions do Newport Beach...Animal Planet
Actually it was seals that Grandpa used to shoot.
Remember when a bunch of sea lions had been herded into Newport Bay(OR) by a pod of killer whales then slaughtered by said whales right in front of Mo's Restaurant? All the animal rights wackos in town didn't know who to root for!
Seals and sea lions are protected out here... even when they're chomping a salmon you just caught in half!
I guess only if you are a seal or a sea lion!
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