Shamu at Sea world Kills his trainer...

[Chaz88]

Dude. That was from 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'..

Awesome movie.

Guess I was paying more attention to the internet than the movie when we watched that. My bad. I have a huge movie collection and normally get all the movie quotes.

 

[Ang]

Guess I was paying more attention to the internet than the movie when we watched that. My bad. I have a huge movie collection and normally get all the movie quotes.

well, the dialogue in that movie goes pretty quickly. you do have to pay attention to it.



i'm also a huge movie quote fan myself

 

[Chaz88]

something that i forgot to add to my first post is how tragic this whole event is, my deepest condolences to the family of the victim and to all those who witnessed thai horrible event

Agreed. This has all gotten kind of off point. It is a tragedy for all involved. They all have my sympathy.

 

[chefjamesscott]

Care to chime in Chef? I see you, lol.

EDIT: you already did, you sneaky son of a gun!

I will say what my thoughts really are. I could care less if they kill the whale or not. To me having whales in captivity is really really stupid no matter the size of the pool, their range in nature is much more than you could ever replicate in a man made environment.

I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts that this whale killed the person on purpose and made it look like they were playing with them. Why do I say this, because the whale grabbed the person and took them in the water that was no accident.

I would also not blame the whale captured from the wild I am pretty sure it is totally peeeeeeved about it! And so far as I know their intellilgence and memory is very great and very long.

These whales in the wild will specifically search out and take out great white sharks so that they can then rip the shark open all so they can eat the liver. How is that for precision of thought.

It would not suprize me to find that they take the whale out and cull it, after all it has been involved in three fatalities. Now it would have been so interesting to see the pod take out the one person as for that death there was more than one whale involved.

Really, I would think the danger goes with the job and tough boobies if you happen to get offed by the very dangerous, very powerful animal you foolishly thought you could control and train to do cheap parlour tricks to amuze the monkeys in the stands.

I OFFER A CHALLENGE TO ANY OF YOU WITH ACCESS TO A SEAWORLD OR SIMILAR PARK.

It is this. With an open mind go ask the park if you could see the animal up close and then look in the eyes and tell me if you do not see an immense sadness there. As anyone knows sadness of heart will lead to desperation and desperation leads to funny things that are totally out of supposed character of the person under its weight.

Think why does the dorsal fin of the orca fall to the side only in captivity? Why. They may give some reason to it, but, I really think that the reason is because they somewhat loose a bit of their will to live and simply expend their energy existing. Imagine if this whale remembered it's freedom, it's family that it was seperated from, perhaps it's mate and maybe just maybe it has a really bad day when this happens and takes it out on the first human being it sees.

I give aquatic life much more credit for a level of intelligence that is supposed to be possessed. How much more with an killer whale.

 

[mgk]

that whale was appraised at 1.5 million dollars in 1991.

I should be a whale trapper.

 

[ceeej31]

chef, i went to seaworld several times as a kid and while i never looked and orca in the eye i do remember seeing a young whale interacting with small children (myself included) through a viewing window and clearly having a great time doing so.

 

[chefjamesscott]

OK...... *Chaz backs away slowly* lol

DUDE YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE REFERENCE IS

I am reading the thread now hopefully someone will get it or I will look a tad but and :WTF: if people don't like me

 

[megalops///]

I will say what my thoughts really are. I could care less if they kill the whale or not. To me having whales in captivity is really really stupid no matter the size of the pool, their range in nature is much more than you could ever replicate in a man made environment.

I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts that this whale killed the person on purpose and made it look like they were playing with them. Why do I say this, because the whale grabbed the person and took them in the water that was no accident.

I would also not blame the whale captured from the wild I am pretty sure it is totally peeeeeeved about it! And so far as I know their intellilgence and memory is very great and very long.

These whales in the wild will specifically search out and take out great white sharks so that they can then rip the shark open all so they can eat the liver. How is that for precision of thought.

It would not suprize me to find that they take the whale out and cull it, after all it has been involved in three fatalities. Now it would have been so interesting to see the pod take out the one person as for that death there was more than one whale involved.

Really, I would think the danger goes with the job and tough boobies if you happen to get offed by the very dangerous, very powerful animal you foolishly thought you could control and train to do cheap parlour tricks to amuze the monkeys in the stands.

I OFFER A CHALLENGE TO ANY OF YOU WITH ACCESS TO A SEAWORLD OR SIMILAR PARK.

It is this. With an open mind go ask the park if you could see the animal up close and then look in the eyes and tell me if you do not see an immense sadness there. As anyone knows sadness of heart will lead to desperation and desperation leads to funny things that are totally out of supposed character of the person under its weight.

Think why does the dorsal fin of the orca fall to the side only in captivity? Why. They may give some reason to it, but, I really think that the reason is because they somewhat loose a bit of their will to live and simply expend their energy existing. Imagine if this whale remembered it's freedom, it's family that it was seperated from, perhaps it's mate and maybe just maybe it has a really bad day when this happens and takes it out on the first human being it sees.

I give aquatic life much more credit for a level of intelligence that is supposed to be possessed. How much more with an killer whale.

Wow, I could of never of said it as well! EXCELLANT POST, CHEF!

This is what came to my mind after reading your post. These are VERY intelligent animals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxDZW4k8tCY

 

[Ang]

chef, i went to seaworld several times as a kid and while i never looked and orca in the eye i do remember seeing a young whale interacting with small children (myself included) through a viewing window and clearly having a great time doing so.

well, yeah. They have to do the best with what they have.

I'm sure they have fun.
But the fun does not outweigh the bored out of their melons from circling a blue kidney shaped pool every day of their lives.

 

[chefjamesscott]

chef, i went to seaworld several times as a kid and while i never looked and orca in the eye i do remember seeing a young whale interacting with small children (myself included) through a viewing window and clearly having a great time doing so.

Yet go as an adult and look deep see what is to be seen.

I have to say I hate peta, I just think some animals should not be in captivity.