Bruce?
Posted on 05/15/2025 3:57:37 PM PDT by Libloather
The federal authorities want to know who decapitated a dolphin that had been stranded on an island off the coast of North Carolina last month, and they are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that could help them find out.
The 8-foot long bottlenose dolphin was found dead on Lea-Hutaff Island, N.C., on April 15, according to a statement from the Office of Law Enforcement of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The reward notice included a photo of the dolphin, which was missing its head, as it lay on the shore of the remote, undeveloped barrier island, which is north of Wilmington, N.C., and only accessible by boat, the agency said.
Officials from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, which partners with NOAA to respond to dolphin strandings in the region, said that they determined that someone intentionally removed the dolphin’s head after it had been stranded on the island.
The agency noted that the dolphin was carrying Brucella, a bacteria that causes the infectious disease brucellosis, which can be transferred to humans through direct contact. Symptoms of the disease include headaches, fever, sweating and generally feeling badly or malaise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Officials performed a necropsy, an animal autopsy, and the results and cause of death were pending.
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They wouldn’t offer $25k for info on a dead white man
Too bad it wasn’t a gang member issue, the beheader would get off free.
There is a murderer around here on the lam for two weeks and they just raised the reward to 30k. Equal to one Flipper.
What’s “Only 5.69 years left?” Can’t read the NY Times article which might provide a clue - not a subscriber!
I did it. Come get me.
#priorities
Years left till the world ends due to global swarming.
Anyhoo, probably some yacht’s prop did it. Ever seen a blue whale run over by some big ship and hanging lifelessly from its bulbious bow?
If the person who decapitated it contracted Brucella, he is already getting his “reward”.
Killed by a shark?
Bruce?
The head is in a nearby college biology department laboratory. Professor is convinced he can safely contain his gain of function work on brucellas despite his meager facilities budget.
I’m pretty sure Bobby was in DC.
brucellosis. Bang’s Disease. The fear of all cattlemen. Cattle that “bang out” are branded on the jaw with a ‘B” and sent to slaughter. It causes them to abort their calves.
I’ve been counting it down. I believe Big Media recently removed the ‘12 years’ part and replaced it with ‘a number of years’. Gird something.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns, ‘World Is Going to End in 12 Years,’ Reiterating Claims of Recent U.N. Climate Change Report
WTFIIWNC?
That was a great Bugs Bunny cartoon episode. 😎
Brucellosis used to be spread by contaminated milk before pasteurization became routine.
Now I’m hearing that square dance fiddle music. :-)
Posing bureaucracies, angling for budget attention. When they already know from experience, that the “fish” was mistakenly caught and handled as if a tuna (for example), then discarded.
IMHO
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