Upset at IWC collapse, whales now attacking sailboats

[gturner]

If you play with fire, you get burned. Or crushed, it appears.

A 33-foot southern right whale soared out of the water off Cape Town, South Africa, and landed on a couple's boat, destroying it. But reports indicate that the 40-ton beast was provoked into the attack -- and local officials are investigating.

Amazingly, it was caught on camera.

Authorities are trying to blame the victims of this obviously unprovoked attack. The couple didn't even have their engine on and were just sailing along, peacefully minding their own business, then WHAM!

“Our boat's engine was off and so the whale just didn't know we were there," Paloma Werner told the BBC.

"We were just the wrong boat, in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Werner and her partner Ralph reportedly first saw the whale in the distance. They floated for an hour watching. "It appeared about 120 meters away from our boat and then it went under the water again,” she told the BBC.

"A few moments later, I saw it resurface just 10 meters away. Suddenly I heard my partner shout and when I looked around, I saw the huge thing breaching on to the deck.

"Instinctively, I took cover as the mast came crashing down. I saw my partner, Ralph, dive for cover behind the yacht's wheel. Then the whale slid down the side of the boat and back into the water."

"As soon as I realized that we were unhurt, we checked to see how much damage had been done.

"Luckily, we weren't taking on water so we started the engine and headed for shore. I saw the whale reappear further away.

"When we got back to land, I realized how lucky we were to have survived."

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This whale, this creature, was bent on inflicting damage and terror on unsuspecting humans. Surely Japanese scientists will hunt it down and perform an autopsy on its demented, evil brain.

Or was the whale perhaps the victim, the victim of a failed IWC negotiation that allows whaling countries to do whatever they want?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The whales are rising up!

 

[KimMH]

Yeay whales!

 

[gturner]

Someone desperately needs to turn that picture into an office motivational poster.

 

[Misfit Toy]

I think it was just a rogue whale, not affiliated with any particular party. He doesn't even have a laser attached to his head...

 

[CorporalClegg]

I'd be mad if I was that ugly too.

 

[gturner]

I'd be mad if I was that ugly too.

These attacks will just get worse because of comments like that!

I'll bet the couple in the story made some sort of off-color remark about it the previous time it came up for air, so it decided to give them an old-school whale encounter.

Besides, the whale's mom thinks its a cutie pie.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I think it was just a fluke.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Two wrongs don't make a right whale.

Someone desperately needs to turn that picture into an office motivational poster.

 

[Rii]

Owned.

 

[Squiggy]

Gracie...no!!!!

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

They're going to need a bigger boat.

 

[RJDiogenes]

That's actually a pretty small whale. Must have a Moby Dick complex.

 

[Gepard]

That's actually a pretty small whale. Must have a Moby Dick complex.

Or it's a really huge whale and it's cock-slapping the boat with its, ah, Moby Dick.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Good thing it's not a Sperm Whale.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

We all knew this day would come. The whales are upon us.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I think it was just a fluke.

That's actually a pretty small whale. Must have a Moby Dick complex.

No more whale puns!

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

That's actually a pretty small whale. Must have a Moby Dick complex.

Or it's a really huge whale and it's cock-slapping the boat with its, ah, Moby Dick.

You're saying he's just freeing his Willie?

 

[RJDiogenes]

I think it was just a fluke.

That's actually a pretty small whale. Must have a Moby Dick complex.

No more whale puns!

PUN INTENDED!

* Waits for Alidar Jarok to appear. *

 

[Angela 0077]

Well with the hunting and killing of whales happening in certain parts of the world l would crush every boat in sight too.
The animal proberly didnt realize what it was hitting it proberly thought it was another sea creature.