Posted on 09/02/2010 11:01:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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.
The link to the PalmBeac Post, in the NBC article, states that the whale was dead.
why would it be illegal to cut up a dead fish?
George: I got about fifty-feet out and then suddenly the great beast
appeared before me. I tell ya he was ten stories high if he was a
foot. As if sensing my presence he gave out a big bellow. I said,
“Easy big fella!” And then as I watched him struggling I realized
something was obstructing his breathing. From where I was standing
I could see directly into the eye of the great fish!
Jerry: Mammal.
George: Whatever.
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.
I was expecting the whale to still be alive, since cutting off the tail of a dead whate didn’t seem newsworthy to me.
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