[Supafly]

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.theprovince.com/1829103.bin
"A fin whale has been impaled and killed on a Princess cruise ship that docked in the Port of Vancouver Saturday morning. The whale, about 20 metres long, was wrapped around the bow of the ship Saturday in full view of tourists at Canada Place, many snapping pictures of the disturbing sight."



hahaha.

[LemonH2O]

:( apparently not a very smart whale

[Senna4ever]

Again? This happened a few years ago too.

[static]

:( apparently not a very smart whale

yes because a cruise ship is a natural predator of the whale.

[pawdregry4g]

^loool

[misteranswer]

yes because a cruise ship is a natural predator of the whale.

I say the same thing about cars when a person gets hit by one.

[twitchyzero]

so was the whale swimming out in the georgia straight and has been dragged into the port? or it was wandering around the burrard inlet near the port?

[!LittleDragon]

yes because a cruise ship is a natural predator of the whale.

lol, it doesn't have to be. Most animals would run when they see something bigger than they are come toward them. Then there's the few that like to stare at the headlights of an oncoming car..

[mr_piggy]

RIP :(

[Senna4ever]

Boo~ it's gone. I came to take photos, but. It's been removed.

[Euro7r]

T-boned a whale. Messed up.

[Manic!]

They should sell it to the Japanese. They could use it for there research project: What happens to whale meat once it enters the human mouth.

[hear-it-first]

oh, its probably why its raining and thundering in the middle of no where out of a 25 degree sunny day

[ac87]

aww...poor whale...rip

[orange7]

what a waste of a whale...

it could have been dinner to many starving ppl.

[hal0g0dv2]

that sucks

[murd0c]

any of you that laughs about a dead helpless endagered animal are sick in my mind!!

[BlackV62K2]

/gg

[asahai69]

what the fuck. what are the chances that a cruise ship is gonna t-bone a fucking whale in the middle of the ocean. LOL

[will068]

any of you that laughs about a dead helpless endagered animal are sick in my mind!!

It's an animal. Not a human being.

[tgill]

It's an animal. Not a human being.
you're a moron.

[Rikaro]

Shark fin soup!



Oh wait it's a whale..

[orange7]

It's an animal. Not a human being.

:facepalm:

[Gumby]

Ouch. Who knows how long it's been stuck there for. Probably got drowned by the cruise ship. :(

[you!]

hmm thats gonna be a lot of sushi

[murd0c]

It's an animal. Not a human being.

Exactly I don't care of a human dies.

[orange7]

Ouch. Who knows how long it's been stuck there for. Probably got drowned by the cruise ship. :(


LOL.. i find it funny how you used the word "drowned" to describe the way a marine animal died.

[Alatar]

More than 6 billion people on this planet. How many of those whales do you figure there are.

[twitchyzero]

LOL.. i find it funny how you used the word "drowned" to describe the way a marine animal died.

they are mammals...they get their oxygen from the air so they can get drowned

[124Y]

wow...that IS a disturbing sight. How do they dispose a corpse that big?

[orange7]

they are mammals...they get their oxygen from the air so they can get drowned

ya.. i know.. whales need to surface the water to get some air. Hence you see those whales blowing water out of their holes on top of their head.

I know they need air. All i said was that i just find it funny.

kinda like I know apples come in green and red, but i can say i find it funny to see green apples.

[RevYouUp]

wow...that IS a disturbing sight. How do they dispose a corpse that big?

they blow it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y

[Death2Theft]

Better cut it up and serve it as sushi while it's still fresh.
Again? This happened a few years ago too.

[Senna4ever]

Whale meat sashimi is actually quite delicious. I have it whenever I go to Japan. I don't like dolphin meat though...very gamey.

[Drift_Monkey]

they blow it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y

LOL... they created more damage b/c they totalled a few cars hahah.

How are you gonna explain to ICBC that your car got hit by fly pieces of Whale blubber and it crushed in the car's roof.

[iwantaskyline]

If only Hancock was there...

http://salondelmal.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/hancock2.jpg

[StylinRed]

What happened to the Whale?


They should cut it up and sell it to local restaurants... better then just throwing it away

[thumper]

What happened to the Whale?


They should cut it up and sell it to local restaurants... better then just throwing it away

coast guard came and pulled it off with commercial tugs. i heard something about a necropsy being done by the fisheries dept. to learn more about it because fin whales are rare and are not commonly seen. afterwards it's going to be towed somewhere near vancouver island and sunk so that it will decompose naturally.

ugh. still... driving a car and hitting a bird or raccoon and having it stuck in the front of your ride is one thing, but this :(

[MDMA]

that fuckin sucks

[will068]

you're a moron.

You're the one with the messed up priorities... Wow you must be dumb.. wow...

http://i30.tinypic.com/2yn4emx.gif

[tgill]

You're the one with the messed up priorities... Wow you must be dumb.. wow...

messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck

[misteranswer]

messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbUH_iVjYw

now start crying.

[woob]

^^^ precisely.

[JSALES]

wow

[Noir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbUH_iVjYw

now start crying.

Hahahaha. Zing!

[Matsuda]

gotta love US TV, that was considered Breaking News you know

[ilvtofu]

whale had it coming, you can spot a cruise ship from a mile away...

Lol this isn't what i had in mind when i read the thread title BTW,
I thought it was like one of those alaska-vancouver cruises where all u do is look out the windows and spot some whales, sea lions, etc. and the cruise owns a whale and keeps it and lets it out when ppl are bored... I have a huge imagination...

[InvisibleSoul]

hahaha.
What's funny about it? :confused:

[woob]

Physical humour is still humour. People laughed at the Three Stooges and Marx Brothers; we'll laugh at a whale getting hit by a boat too.

[TigerSY]

^ LOL

[jeff_alexander]

messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck

http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/horsemeat.jpg

http://www.japanprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/kujira.jpeg

I have a perfect suggestion for you. Grab a 6ft rope and hang yourself so we'll divert our attention towards your rotting corspe instead of the whale.

[Bouncing Bettys]

whale had it coming, you can spot a cruise ship from a mile away...
up until the mid 19th century the oceans were pretty noise free. commincation with other creatures, location of hazards, familiar routes, and preditors came easy and was possible for perhaps hundreds of miles. ships and other man-made noise in the oceans can easily drown out their abilities and cause confusion. also, ships can travel at much faster speeds and in an unfamiliar manor to which a whale might be able to judge.

[twixxer]

there trying to figure out if the whale was dead already, or if it died after being hit by the ship. Apparently if the cruise ship hit it and that ended up killing the whale, then the company that owns the cruise ship gets a hefty fine. Poor whale though.

[hotjoint]

wow

[shenmecar]

Thats sad..........

[Supafly]

What's funny about it? :confused:

1. because i highly doubt that the ship actually hit it.....
2. everyone is so sad about a dead mammal on a the bow of a ship.

you guys make me laugh. therefore i laugh.:haha:

[silk]

so sad : (

did i tell you about i caught a lingcod and its in my fridge now ? It is dead for 2 days

http://www.salmonuniversity.com/images/other/Ocean_Ling_Cod1.jpg

[twitchyzero]

up until the mid 19th century the oceans were pretty noise free. commincation with other creatures, location of hazards, familiar routes, and preditors came easy and was possible for perhaps hundreds of miles. ships and other man-made noise in the oceans can easily drown out their abilities and cause confusion. also, ships can travel at much faster speeds and in an unfamiliar manor to which a whale might be able to judge.

Boats have been around for many many centuries. You'd think that by now they'd adapt and know how to avoid them

Then again you can argue how big our oceans are and the chance of a whale seeing a boat out in the open sea may be fairly small.

[JHatta]

messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck

wow, when did kids get so pussy? too much skinny jeans and emo music these days. do you cry when you see coons/skunks/rabbits on the side of the highway, after being obliterated by a vehicle? do you get on you knees and start crying?

If you're going to cry over the death of a mammal, why don't you look at farmed animals who are abused in their life, or any animal that is killed for sport. Why get upset over a dumbfuck animal that is stupid enough to get run over? Natural selection.

Go back to the kitchen, I hear your pie burning.

vagina.

[InvisibleSoul]

1. because i highly doubt that the ship actually hit it.....
How's that funny?

2. everyone is so sad about a dead mammal on a the bow of a ship.
I'm not sad about it.

I just fail to see where the lulz come from.

[Supafly]

How's that funny?


I'm not sad about it.

I just fail to see where the lulz come from.


because i already knew that tree-huggers and animal activists will chime into this thread with their whiney-sobbing sadness. I find that funny.:)

[stuff99]

/gg


LOL

[misteranswer]

because i already knew that tree-huggers and animal activists will chime into this thread with their whiney-sobbing sadness. I find that funny.:)

I say the same thing every time someone gets run over by a car.

[tgill]

in reply to all the internet thugs that felt the need to throw down insultzzzz

because i already knew that tree-huggers and animal activists will chime into this thread with their whiney-sobbing sadness. I find that funny.:)
lulz i drive a suv with the largest engine available for this model, i eat meat everyday and love KFC so i am definitely not a treehugger or peta activist
i could say half the people on this forum are treehuggers driving low displacement shitty civics and corolla, maybe you need a bigger engine yo.

How's that funny?
I'm not sad about it.
I just fail to see where the lulz come from.

QFT

[q0192837465]

RIP whale, at least its brain didnt get eaten bu his mom

[MG1]

LOL, Port of Vancouver "owns" the whale now.........

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

guess whale aint the biggest creature in the sea

:D

[ajax]

One from Japan?
http://www.japanprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/this-is-news.jpg

[Quicktrade]

Japanese Sushi restaurants will be pleased....lol

[orange7]

clearly what this proves to us all is that a cruise ship can own something that's smaller than it.

[Supafly]

in reply to all the internet thugs that felt the need to throw down insultzzzz


lulz i drive a suv with the largest engine available for this model, i eat meat everyday and love KFC so i am definitely not a treehugger or peta activist
i could say half the people on this forum are treehuggers driving low displacement shitty civics and corolla, maybe you need a bigger engine yo.



QFT

wow what a bunch of cry babies.....its just a whale...and it probably died long before the ship hooked it....so, stop the whine....or continue because i find it pretty funny.:thumbsup:

- bigger engine?...im content with a 6.3L thanks.

[wasabisashimi]

messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck

Think Darwin, "survival of the fittest", this whale should've sense the approaching ship and dodge it. It is a sad news, but probably it was slow to react/blindness/ or impaired mobility to begin with

[Bouncing Bettys]

Boats have been around for many many centuries. You'd think that by now they'd adapt and know how to avoid them

Then again you can argue how big our oceans are and the chance of a whale seeing a boat out in the open sea may be fairly small.
boats have been around for thousands of years, powered by wind or muscle which make virtually no noise. only in the last 150 years or so have they utilized engine technology, a byproduct of which is high amounts of noise pollution. thats not a lot of time for a species to adapt, particularly one on the verge of exstinction.

one must consider the huge amount of traffic in the shipping lanes which run up and down continents and across oceans where its quite unlikely to go more than a few hours without being able to visually spot another ship. many fish and mammals have migration routes that span thousands of miles of ocean and we know so little about the nature of these routes. if a shipping lane happens to lie across one of these routes, its like a herd of ducks trying to cross a busy 4 lane highway.

as to the amount of noise a ship can produce. low pitch sounds like the noise of a large ship's engines travel further than high pitch sounds, thus why early warning systems such as low pitched fog horns are used in shipping. humans have horrible hearing abilities underwater - if someone is yelling at me underwater more than 5 ft away, i can't hear them. yet i can easily hear a high pitched speed boat ripping across the lake when its more than a km away.

[StylinRed]

Fin Whale buried at sea
Whale was found impaled on a cruise ship, Saturday
Dave White/Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) | Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 9:25 pm
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The 70-tonne carcass of a Fin Whale, found impaled on a cruise ship Saturday at Canada Place, has been sent to a watery grave.

The Vancouver Sun reports the carcass was dropped far off the western coast of Vancouver Island sometime Monday evening. Investigators are still waiting for results of a necropsy before they can determine if the whale died when it was hit or if it was already dead.


:/ they shoulda kept it cold and then like i said already sell it to local restaurants :/

[Senna4ever]

^^^ I think it's illegal to serve whale meat in North America unless you're Native.

[InvisibleSoul]

Think Darwin, "survival of the fittest", this whale should've sense the approaching ship and dodge it. It is a sad news, but probably it was slow to react/blindness/ or impaired mobility to begin with
So if a car suddenly veers off the road onto the sidewalk and you happened to be standing there and got run over and killed, that's a case of "survival of the fittest" as well?

[thumper]

One from Japan?
http://www.japanprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/this-is-news.jpg

ugh gross. that's like some hunter tying a dead deer to the hood of their truck coming back from a hunting trip :(

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

messed up priorities eh? apparently humans are mammals just like whales.
when did I say that humans did not take precedence over whales? I'm not saying that the fucking cruise ship should have done something to risk humans or anything like that.
Just because humans are more important doesn't make the death of another living being laughable or insignificant. after all what kind of world would we be living in without such amazing creatures around us? dumbfuck

who the fuck gives a flying fuck about a whale that got ran over by a cruise ship

are you gonna start bitching and whinning when a ray gets ran over by a car too?
humans are on top of the food chain, and thats how it works. So who cares about the buttom feeders
:rolleyes:

[jeff_alexander]

So if a car suddenly veers off the road onto the sidewalk and you happened to be standing there and got run over and killed, that's a case of "survival of the fittest" as well?

Well if you are stupid enough to be listening to your ipod, while texting your mates and happened to be creamed by a car. It is totally your fault. As a matter of fact I wished it happened more often to keep pedestrians more alert on the sidewalk instead of Jay-Walking when ever. If you're too poor to drive, don't fucking go out, or prepare to suffer the consequences for it.

On a side note if you are religious, take comfort in knowing your all-mighty god has planned this event for you and you shall greatly accept it with out worry. Your death will be quick and painless and the trip to heaven will be brief. After a short conversation at the Pearly Gates, you will be dropped straight to hell for criticizing the death of a whale many moons ago on an internet forum.

[JHatta]

in reply to all the internet thugs that felt the need to throw down insultzzzz


lulz i drive a suv with the largest engine available for this model, i eat meat everyday and love KFC so i am definitely not a treehugger or peta activist
i could say half the people on this forum are treehuggers driving low displacement shitty civics and corolla, maybe you need a bigger engine yo.



QFT

You are a little whiny kid. David said it better than me, so I'll just add to insult.

So....by your stupid logic...

A guy riding a hayabusa gsx 1300 falls into your pussy category because he has a low displacement vehicle?
http://www.dragtimes.com/images/13828-2008-Suzuki-Hayabusa.jpg

Yah OK. You nut-less son of a bitch, get back to your lunchbox on wheels, soccer mom.
lol, it says you drive a ford in your profile? So an escape?
http://starrrental.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/ford_escape.93224922_std.jpg

[MG1]

Speaking of whales, what ever happened to that native tribe/band that raised such a stink about the fact they should have the right to hunt whales in the traditional manner? Those guys are so hilarious. For all the times they've been out there, they've come back empty handed. I bet if there were a dozen whales in Trout Lake, those poor excuse for warriors would still come up empty handed. Too many chiefs, no indians............. LOL. See, even natives are getting soft. Good thing they don't have to hunt for a living anymore...... they'd all starve.



Sorry, Native Russ, I hope this isn't your tribe.

[InvisibleSoul]

Well if you are stupid enough to be listening to your ipod, while texting your mates and happened to be creamed by a car. It is totally your fault.

Even if you're on the sidewalk? What if you weren't listening to an iPod and weren't texting your mates and was fully alert but still couldn't manage to get out of the way of a car that veers onto the sidewalk? Then what?

[jeff_alexander]

Even if you're on the sidewalk? What if you weren't listening to an iPod and weren't texting your mates and was fully alert but still couldn't manage to get out of the way of a car that veers onto the sidewalk? Then what?

God's plan my friend. Blame christianity for all your problems.

[InvisibleSoul]

God's plan my friend. Blame christianity for all your problems.
So where did it change from being your fault to being God's plan? :confused:

[StylinRed]

You are a little whiny kid. David said it better than me, so I'll just add to insult.

Yah OK. You nut-less son of a bitch, get back to your lunchbox on wheels, soccer mom.
lol, it says you drive a ford in your profile? So an escape?



surprised u dont have a million points