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Seal pulls 5-year-old from dock: B.C. father
CBC ^
| September 2, 2009
Posted on 09/02/2009 11:02:47 PM PDT by george76
A harbour seal leapt from the water and dragged a five-year-old girl off a dock at a marina in West Vancouver ...
"When she popped to the surface, she said, 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, the seal!' ...
A neighbour on a nearby boat then told Cunning a seal had jumped out of the water and pulled Caleigh from the dock.
"This thing must have taken a running start to be able to launch itself four feet out of the water, grab a 50-pound five-year-old and then drag her underneath the water with a life-jacket on," .
He initially thought his daughter's hand was broken because it was badly swollen and bleeding with four large puncture wounds at the base of her wrist.
Cunning said he has heard of seals attacking small dogs on leashes and dragging them into the water to eat them, but never attacking a child.
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TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; harbourseal; seals
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:02:47 PM PDT
by
george76
To: jazusamo; girlangler; fanfan; GladesGuru
Thank God she had the life-jacket on
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:03:53 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
3
posted on
09/02/2009 11:04:52 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: george76
I wonder how a seal tastes..
To: george76
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:06:39 PM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: george76
Harbor seals look cute but they were always pooping on our boat’s swim platform, and is you coiled your rope on the dock they liked to poop on it too.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:07:21 PM PDT
by
Citizen Soldier
(Just got up from Bedroomshire)
To: george76
I never trusted that guy:
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:08:30 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: george76
After the incident, she told her father she thought it was very rude of the seal not to ask if she wanted to go for a swim, and she doesn't want to feed the seal or be its friend anymore.Mmmm...seal
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:09:04 PM PDT
by
muddler
To: george76
I find myself suddenly viewing seal hunters in a new light
To: nysuperdoodle
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:13:23 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Soothesayer9
“I wonder how a seal tastes..”
Why, like chicken, of course!
To: Soothesayer9
I wonder how a seal tastes.. A bit like manatee
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:20:46 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(War is fought by human beings. - Carl von Clausewitz in On War)
To: Soothesayer9
"I wonder how a seal tastes.."It tastes fishy because that's about all they eat (except for little dogs, etc...)
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:22:57 PM PDT
by
redhead
(I was called an extremist for being Catholic - by a vegan....)
To: Soothesayer9
“I wonder how a seal tastes..”
Like dead meat.
To: george76
A fifty pound five-year-old???
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:34:22 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(You know how it is: you wait ages for a good sperm story and then they all come at once.)
To: LongElegantLegs
That’s about the right weight. In California you have to reach 6 years or 60 pounds to ride without a car seat.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:37:22 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: Citizen Soldier
Cute as a baby bear, lion cub or any critter that will “Shred” a screaming baby human without a bit of remorse. Just food.
To: Marie2
My seven year old (tall for her age) is not yet 50 pounds...Not to say a seal couldn’t drag her where he wanted, I guess it just surprised me...
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:40:35 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(You know how it is: you wait ages for a good sperm story and then they all come at once.)
To: george76
There was a biologist killed by a seal in Antarctica a few years back.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:42:23 PM PDT
by
stormer
To: wardaddy
Is that how he landed Heidi Klum?
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:44:28 PM PDT
by
LaybackLenny
(Sarah Palin can see the left's heads explode from her house!)
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