Greenpeace accuses Japanese over collision

Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | 01/09/2006 | Unknown

[oxcart]

Poor babies got a dent in their boat...shame the Japanese whaling boat did not cut them into.

[Gordongekko909]

So... they got rammed while vandalizing another boat? Poetic justice.

[boomop1]

I have visions of John Belushi with his sword in action.

[BlazingArizona]

Good going, Tokyo! Next time, ram them harder.

Tenno heika banzai!

[fini]

One of the tactics that Greenpeace uses is to put themselves in the path of the fishing ship. Thus forcing the fishing ship to change course and preventing the fishing ship from accomplishing its mission. I guess it didn't work this time.

[satchmodog9]

Where they painting in English or Japanese? Doesn't do much good if the recipients of the vandalism don't know what the hell you are talking about you lousy hippies.

[stephenjohnbanker]

AZO!!!!

[SmithL]

Maybe we can get the French involved, since they already know the drill.

(1) Sink the enemy (Greenpeace) Ship

(2)Then surrender, apologize and pay them off.

[tet68]

"We radioed them when we realised they were on a collision course with us," he said.

It remains to be seen who was the burdened vessel,
a maritime court will settle it.

[SouthTexas]

So the Artic Sunrise becomes the Artic Sunset?

[SteveMcKing]

Where is Yamamoto when you need him...

Oh right, KIA 1943. Damn.

[EGPWS]

Greenpeace has accused the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru of deliberately ramming its boat, the Arctic Sunrise, in the Southern Ocean before steaming off at high speed.

"Get Off of My Cloud" - The Rolling Stones.

[robertpaulsen]

"Greenpeace has accused the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru of deliberately ramming its boat"

Greenpeace didn't realize that the Nisshin Maru was a sister ship to the Kobayashi Maru -- it was a no-win situation.

When Greenpeace received the message that the Nisshin Maru had struck a gravitic mine in the Organian Neutral Zone and had lost power, hull integrity, and life support, that should have been their first clue.

[Publius6961]

For the sake of appearing even handed, I would love the two opposing versions of the same incident. Although I am unalterably of the opinion that on the high seas, if you create a collision scenario, you deserve whatever happens to you, up to and including being torpedoed!

Grenpeace idiot morons!

[solitas]

…they tried to contact the Japanese whaling boat shortly before they clashed…

"No speakee Anglee, roundeye."

[JustAnotherOkie]

Hit'em Again...

[Dawggie]

Fishing boats under the flag of Japan should now have one of those ramming thingies on the bow. Just for self defense mind you. We really do not want to see anybody get hurt do we? How about 16 inch guns for warning shots?

[Little_shoe]

Its apparent Green peace dosent know the rules of the road. They obviously disobeyed the rule of "Mass domestic tonnage" i.e. if its bigger than you get out of the way.

[JimSEA]

Some twenty five years ago the greenpeace folks unrolled their banner from one of the 200' smelter stacks at the mine in Arizona where I worked. They then proceeded to bus protesters in from Tucson to provide additional pictures and quotes for the newspapers and adoring television cameras.

After a few days, and following rumors that locals were seriously considering shooting the sob's the company rolled out the converters in the smelter at night, applying a good dose of gas to the smokestack sitters and getting them down within 15 minutes. It was a good thing since shooting the sitters would not have garnered the good press it would have deserved.

[NY Attitude]

Frogmen always do a better job. 8^)