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- mulling, on 08/22/2008, -3/+40Some people are going to feel really bad when the autopsy reveals that Colin was just a friendly, healthy adult midget whale.
- GhandicapXRS, on 08/22/2008, -7/+39"Don't Euthanase me bro!"
- grandinferno, on 08/22/2008, -3/+18I love the way they say that the mother was found tragically just after the whales death... Then, way down the bottom of the article...
.... was found dead being eaten by sharks. Babowwwwww... - thegrantman, on 08/22/2008, -6/+20Watch the video and you'll see someone with a wheelbarrow of lemons waiting in the background.
- bubba9999, on 08/22/2008, -3/+14On the ladder of life, PETA members cling to the bottom rung.
- dtele, on 08/22/2008, -4/+14BREAKING NEWS from DAILY TELEGRAPH:
Colin the whale was a girl!
Colins mother found !
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,2204 ... - inactive, on 08/22/2008, -1/+10That must have been one giant ***** dose...
- neio, on 08/22/2008, -0/+9bwahaha, Awesome.
- omenmedia, on 08/22/2008, -2/+10Local sources were estimating a cost of about $2 million AUD with about a 10-20% chance of success in housing and rehabilitating the baby whale.... looks like the cheaper option won.
- themastersb, on 08/22/2008, -0/+6This is the saddest story about something being euthanased since the Companion Cube was euthanized.
- vidaliasweet, on 08/22/2008, -1/+7"We had expert advice that the animal probably would not make it through the night," Ms Barnes said last night." So they rushed to inject it and drag it thrashing to the shore. It's a good thing they killed it before it died.
- Jewbacca311, on 08/22/2008, -1/+7Euthanase is the action of being euthanized by way of TASER®. *****.
- arjie, on 08/22/2008, -0/+6There's something about human beings that makes us feel that way.
It's a psychological phenomenon, up to a certain level we anthropomorphise. It's not the fact that it's a whale that is being put down, it's the fact that it was a child lost that somehow got confused. Our minds make this relation due to a number of reasons, but a big factor are the words used in the article. Notice how the writer refers to the whale as 'orphaned', 'baby', and 'motherless' - certainly applicable in the case, but perhaps inadvertently allowing us to relate to the case much easier. They even named the whale Colin, a common human name. - Iatethecrayon, on 08/22/2008, -0/+5I still feel bad. I like animals way more than I like people...
- Erythroxylum, on 08/22/2008, -2/+7As far as I'm concerned, they're not even on the ladder.
- inactive, on 08/22/2008, -4/+9You would eat veal if you knew how tasty it was. ^_^
- brotherfranciz, on 08/22/2008, -0/+4Wait, we need to know the whale's sex before we can feed it?
- dazparkour, on 08/22/2008, -1/+5It's mouth is easier to find.
- sfacets, on 08/22/2008, -1/+5How does one go about stabbing someone to death with poison?
- bobbinika, on 08/22/2008, -0/+4fish are actually wannabe whales
not the other way around - Rudegar, on 08/22/2008, -2/+6if your logic also goes for putting a pet to sleep I'd
advice against getting one because if you just let it die slowly
they'll put you in prison - bonuscheese, on 08/22/2008, -1/+5You should have seen the dumbasses getting pissed off about it on Aussie TV.
"I'M AUSTRALIAN!! DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON ME!"
"SHAME ON YOU... THIS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE!"
"It's very simple, we just use this milk and put it through this tube"
"At least let us kill it with kindness"
"Why aren't we DOING ANYTHING?!"
Ugh, bloody idiot bogans. Even if they had some magical Humpback whale formula (which no-one does, they had store bought Cow milk and some hose), what happens IF the whale manages to survive a couple of days? Do they realise how much it would need per day? Do the realise that they have no way to properly nurture it and develop for wild conditions? etc. - ascguy, on 08/22/2008, -1/+5Don't correct my grammar, bro!
- bobGratton, on 08/22/2008, -1/+5Dude, you're a ***** knob. Illiteracy for the win is right.
You forgot to capitalize the word "you". Then you wrote the word "noun" in all caps. You can't use quotation marks properly and have nested parentheses that you don't even close off properly.
"Well, there's not" ---> "Well, there isn't"
And I can barely speak English. - dtele, on 08/22/2008, -2/+5It was a female
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,2204 ... - netant, on 08/22/2008, -0/+3I would have liked to have seen if a pod (pack of whales) would adopt Colin/Colette. Unless its already an observed certainty that whales don't adopt stray babies.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 08/22/2008, -2/+5skyz, do you know how annoyingly pedantic you are?
- SaveAnimals, on 08/22/2008, -0/+3Sad
- nullcodes, on 08/22/2008, -0/+3Or maybe "nature" intends that we save it? Are you going to say that nature abhors social behavior, helping creatures?
If we turned the other way because some people felt it was stupid maybe we'd be denying a positive trait that comes built into us (ok maybe some more than others)... and who knows the consequences of that? I'm not saying we follow all our instincts, but in this case it makes sense .. nothing's wrong with alleviating suffering.
Why else would we feel the compassion? - NoCt1, on 08/22/2008, -0/+3Not natural selection when we kill it. It becomes our selection.
- SeaMowse, on 08/22/2008, -1/+4How tragic. Breaks my heart. :(
- ultralights, on 08/22/2008, -7/+10ahhh nature, isnt it wonderful, there are a lot of people complaining that more should have been done to save it, how are we suppost to know what to feed a baby whale, when we cant even determine its sex!
- feliks2, on 08/22/2008, -0/+3Bring the lemo... Ah *****, whales aren't fish...? You're sure? Damn it.
- brotherfranciz, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3Baby whales have been euthanised for the past billion years?
- max420, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2lol, its a whaaaale. I just don't get it.
The same thing happened in Vancouver recently, except it was a Monkey. People all over the city were crying and sad, and I just don't get it. Its a monkey, Moneys die every day in nature, no one sheds a tear. Whales die all the time in nature, and no one sheds a tear. But because this what was kept in captivity, and because it performed parlour tricks for peoples amusement, we are sad when it dies. Well ***** you man, all those ***** crying are selfish ass holes themselves. The whale should have lived and died in its nature habitat. - brotherfranciz, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3Well, the point is: there's no harm in trying if the "experts" want to euthanise it anyway. If people want to waste their own time and money to save it, then let them.
- DeFex, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3Had it been left alone it would have been eaten by sharks, so it was screwed either way.
- mrjoshua28, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2What a world is right... We seem to live in a world where it is more humane to take an animal to the vet to be put down than to shoot it in the head. MUCH better for the animal to spend its last hour scared ***** than to just die without knowing anything crazy is happening. And for the record, when most animals (like dogs) are sick they willingly leave their pack to starve and die alone. That IS dignity. Just because we seem to have let go of that value doesn't mean animals have.
- max420, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2Not sure why you are being dugg down. You're right on the money. the fact that peope care enough about this ***** to CRY... is kind of lame.
- pbhj, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3... two of my friends are baby sharks and they're going to starve to death now because of these meddling do-gooders.
[Or something, I don't know how digg memes work.]
Seriously though. That's how it's supposed to work. The whale get's eaten by sharks, other fish, crabs, whatever. Then other stuff eats those creatures! Clever ain't it. - coyote1284, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3I'll go get some A1!
- dazparkour, on 08/22/2008, -5/+7***** no. You shouldn't either.
Do you know how many things die every minute? Every second. If I gave a ***** about every fly and ant I stood on, I'd be permanently depressed. There's an evolutionary reason that there are limits to our caring - because if you cared infinitely in todays world, you'd kill yourself.
There are just too many things wrong with the world, too many things happening that you could be sad about, too many animals that eat other animals, too many people dying of hunger and old age. It would be impossible to care an appropriate amount and survive.
Survival demands that we look the other way. Demands that we can laugh about it and move on. - dazparkour, on 08/22/2008, -2/+4Yes. Sharks need food. I see no reason to starve sharks. OH WAIT. You saw jaws and your hippie juice doesn't extend to them.
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -1/+3Aw *****, it was Rick Astley. SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!
- jax0047, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3pussy
- omenmedia, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2I'm a Colin, and Colin McRae was "Colin" McRae. I could never work out why, but the Americans bastardised Colin Powell's name somehow into "Cole-in", and this is the only instance I have ever heard it pronounced that way. Are all Colins pronounced "Cole-in" in the States?
- sfacets, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3Oh get over it.
- inactive, on 08/22/2008, -2/+4Why didnt they just let it die on its own as nature intends?
- sfacets, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3This guy tells it like it is: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y
(no, not Rick Astley) - max420, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2But it shouldn't come at the expense of tax payers, which often in these situations is where the money comes from. If a whale was beached in Vancouver tomorrow, and the government wanted to spend my tax dollars to save it and put it back in the ocean somewhere. I'd tell thenm to ***** right off. I didn't beach the whale, it beached itself. What happens in nature when a whale beaches itself... it dies, thats life.
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