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2010-01-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Remember the Sea Shepard using the Green Laser on Japan Whalers - Well they rammed it!

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Posted by 3dc 2010-01-06 10:51|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Ya don't tug on Superman's cape
Ya don't ~~piss~~ spit into the wind
Ya don't pull the mask of that ole Lone Ranger
And ya mess around with ~~Slim~~ whalers

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-01-06 11:05|| 2010-01-06 11:05|| Front Page Top

#2 That boat was really cool. Too bad the Green peace nutjubs dont understand the larger, less manouverable, ship has the right of way. Guess whoever paid for that boat just learned they lost a lot of cash....

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-01-06 11:29|| 2010-01-06 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Next time let them float a few few days before rescuing them.

I don't like whaling but this self-appointed, holier than thou terrorists get zero credit.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-06 11:44|| 2010-01-06 11:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Green peace nutjubs dont understand the larger, less manouverable, ship has the right of way

Merely a legal nicety of maritime law. That and the laws of like, physics and stuff. Both of which pale in comparison to the moral purity of engaging in pointless and annoying acts of Self-Righteous Theater.

Posted by SteveS 2010-01-06 12:19|| 2010-01-06 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Follow-up: the Ady Gil was abandoned at sea, and is expected to sink.

I have a feeling that the intent, from the get go, was for the owner of that trimaran to sell it to the insurance company. It originally cost $2.5M, and was built in New Zealand.

During its effort to circumnavigate the globe, it not only collided with a fishing boat, to the loss of life of three fishermen, off Guatemala, but also developed a structural crack in its hull. Lots of other mechanical problems as well. It is likely a lemon.

Hopefully the Japanese will inform that insurance companies underwriters that the insurance should not cover the loss, because it was engaged in reckless acts with obvious intent to damage or destroy the defective vessel.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-06 12:58|| 2010-01-06 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Helpful of the BBC not to mention the laser attack from the SS boat.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-01-06 13:03|| 2010-01-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#7 As I see it , they were trying one of their previously successful tactics, getting in front and making the Whaler turn away, they've been hit before trying this with their larger ship Rainbow Warrior, maybe they'll try it again, and sink the Warrior too.
Good riddance.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-06 13:09|| 2010-01-06 13:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "whoever paid for that boat just learned they lost a lot of cash...."

Maybe not. They will probably make more money with that "loss" than they will lose.

Greenpeace aside, whaling should not happen in the 21st century.

Posted by European Conservative 2010-01-06 17:08|| 2010-01-06 17:08|| Front Page Top

#9 There was that episode where Cap'n Munch claimed he was shot by a Japanese sailor..wasn't harmed, apparently his bullet-proof windbreaker reduced the damage from the projectile to nothing more than a paintball-sized wound to his shoulder.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-01-06 17:56|| 2010-01-06 17:56|| Front Page Top

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