Wellfleet demands removal of decomposing pilot whales (Ewwwwww)

Cape Cod Times ^ | 08/02/2002 | Doug Fraser

[ozone1]

Beach anyone?

[evolved_rage]

Time to blow them up!

[ozone1]

"The National Marine Fisheries Service will pay the cost of towing the whales to the disposal area, Frady said. She could not say yesterday how much it will cost."

Our tax dollars at work.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Yeah, that worked really well last time.

[strela]

Here's somebody's chance to test the old programming saying about something being as hard as "kicking dead whales down the beach."

[bluesagewoman]

I saw that video where they loaded dynamite into the dead whale. Never laughed so hard in my life.

[ozone1]

"We do not want them in our harbor," said Selectman Michael May

Not in my backyard...........

[evolved_rage]

http://www.perp.com/whale/

[ozone1]

Where are the Whale huggers now?

[blau993]

Where are the Whale huggers now?

Most likely still in the shower trying to de-stench!

[strela]

Probably sunken into the decomposing blubber by now. Adipose tissue turns into a soaplike substance as it rots in the hot sun. The smell is probably indescribable, but we are talking granola-heads who likely have a nodding acquaintance at best with soap and water, so they're not likely to care.

[NC Conservative]

What probably won't make headline news is the problem of where to put more than 40 tons of rapidly decaying whales.

Hyannisport? Kennedy Compound?

[ozone1]

Wellfleet is the state's No. 1 aquaculture town with more than 100 grants and a combined harvest of more than $3 million from aquaculture and shellfishing.

Oysters anyone???

I think I'll pass for a couple of weeks.

[habs4ever]

You have any relatives looking for work??

[RobRoy]

Yeah, our picnic was too close. I didn't even finish my sandwich...

[blau993]

Tell me about the smell. The younger of my two Labrador Retrievers, whose enthusiasm far exceeds his intelligence, spotted a pretty good size dead fish off our dock. Nothing would do except he had to jump into the water and try to play with it, though fortunately even he wasn't dumb enough to try to put it in his mouth and bring it ashore. My wife finally got him out of the water sans fish. Two shampoos later, you still could not get within five feet of him. For the next week his nickname was "Fishhead."

[Ditter]

What do you think oysters normaly eat, lettuce & tomato sandwiches? Oysters are skum sucking bottom dwellers.

[ozone1]

"Oysters are scum sucking bottom dwellers."

Don't forget lobsters, crabs etc. Cod fishing of Stellwagen should be good for a couple of weeks.

[RichardW]

"Oysters are scum sucking bottom dwellers."

I thought that pertained to lawyers.

[maica]

I can't stop thinking that until the 20th century, 40 tons of whale meat arriving on the same beach would have occasioned work parties, celebrations and prayers of thanksgiving by the locals.