Why Did Killer Whale Snap? 5 Leading Theories

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[Eleutheria5]

This is beyond ridiculous. Are these people parodying themselves?!

[jazminerose]

Bush’s fault.

[optiguy]

thought he was unemployed?

[nmh]

Maybe is it not NORMAL or a WILD animal to be in captivity?

How’d you like to be penned in if your real habitat is the HUGE ocean?

[laweeks]

It’s a feral animal? Hello!

[edcoil]

He’s a fricken fish!

Really, these people that give human qualities to animals just don’t get it.

[Diogenesis]

The killer whale had killed
two people before the latest death.

Like Amy Bishop, there was encouragement,
so murder of humans became A-OK.

[nmh]

Maybe is it not NORMAL for a WILD animal to be in captivity?

How’d you like to be penned in if your real habitat is the HUGE ocean?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Clearly, the whale was a distraught Obama voter...

[jakerobins]

I'm sure Rachel Maddow or one of the other MSNBC "reporters" will find some info that the "Killer Whale" was a Tea Partier who listened to Rush Limbaugh...Obviously a Racist, Bigot, Homophobe....

[sinanju]

Why did the stingray stab crocodile hunter Steve Irwin in the heart?

Global Warming!!

[JoeProBono]

[nickcarraway]

6). Violent video games
7). Emo/Goth Music
8). Latchkey whale
9). Belong to “trenchcoat mafia.”
10. U.S. gun culture

[BRL]

6.) He was feeling angry about the injustices in the American Health care system and this is his way of saying all the Killer Whales in the world deserve the kind of health care that he gets.

[Tarpon]

Killer Whale thought the person was a mmmm, mmmm. mmmm, good seal. It’s what Killer Whales do, eat seals whole. And generally they take them down, try to drown them and then surface and swallow — At least that is what I read on a ‘seal site’. Seals usually flop around too much to swallow at first meeting ...

[windsorknot]

He was abused as a child.

[Fawn]

It was sick of being fed a fish at a time. It was teased. It’s a whale and she kept throwing him pieces of fish that couldn’t fill a cat....it was hungry...and acted out because of it.

[laweeks]

“He’s a fricken fish!”

Right’ ch’ are!. . . well, not quite a fish. And where did it get that silly-ass name . . . Tilikum? Should have been Kill-it-yum!

[Eleutheria5]

No, he was a right wing extremist.

[pnh102]

Maybe is it not NORMAL for a WILD animal to be in captivity?

Captivity is one thing... I would definitely say there is a difference between zoos which attempt to exhibit animals acting naturally in simulated surroundings as opposed to places like Sea World which attempt to force wild animals to perform tricks on demand.