[11th_VA]

This photo released by the New Bedford Whaling Museum shows the tip of the bomb lance fragment, patented in 1879, that was removed from the neck of a bowhead whale captured at Barrow, Alaska, in May 2007. The body of the bomb lance was not recovered. The shiny scars are the result of a chain saw cut. (AP Photo/New Bedford Whaling Museum)

[BenLurkin]

"He couldn't have been that bothered if he lived for another 100 years."

Guess not, huh.

[Hacksaw]

BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago.

The Associated Press strikes again. If this centurion whale had been killed (excuse me, "caught") by a non "indigenous person", what do you think the AP headline would be? I really hate the AP. The AP really does think people don't notice these things.

[mysterio]

Why is anyone hunting whales anymore in the first place?

[Lazamataz]

130 years old, it would have been born in 1877, the year Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as president, when federal Reconstruction troops withdrew from the South and when Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention, the phonograph.

Shut up.