FTFA: "Tilikum is a nearly 30-year-old, 12,300-pound bull Orca."

I guess old whales don't like kids in their tanks.

/My Tank
//Get out of it

cuzsis: This is the third time this particular whale (Tilikum) has killed someone...

Nootka 4, Tillikum, & Haida 2 Keltie Byrne February 21, 1991
Sealand of the Pacific, Can
Attack
20 year old Keltie Byrene slipped and fell into the whale pool. She was dragged, screaming across the pool and repeataldy submerged. Other trainers attempted to rescue her, but she eventualy drowned.

Tillikum Unknown Guest Sea World, Fl July 5, 1999 Accident
A dead, naked body was discovered in the early moring, draped over Tillikum, an adult male. The man had hidden in the park after closing, removed his clothing and jumped in with the whale. This was Tillikum's second fatal incident, the first being the 1991 death of Keltie Bryene.

And then today.
"The trainer was explaining different things about the whale..and then the trainer that was down there walked away from the window..and then Telly (the whale) took off really fast in the tank and he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the trainer by the waist and started thrashing (her) around," Biniak said.


I like the way the article says "Biniak said the whale, named Tilikum, or Telly for short, does not typically have a trainer in its tank because it is too large."

Too large? How about b/c it's KILLED 3 PEOPLE?! Geeze. But I suppose that's not politically correct or something. :rolls eyes:

Obviously, this whale is less safe than the others. But I still contend that research into whale behavior would probably help prevent many of these. For all we know the whales are in "the rut" or something and will smack anything around that gets too close to it.

/still likes whales.

OMG!!!

Tilikum = I KILT UM

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/whales/seaworld/tilikum/

Yikes!

Whale See, Whale remember 20 years later and do.

PsyLord:

you got it.

cheers good sir!

I guess the lady was way too stingy with her mackerel.

hxhawkeye: People Got A Lotta Nerve. (new window)

/Neko

Damn I love playing that song in Rock Band

Send the whale to Japan. They know what to do.

Trainer forgot to douche?

/tuna

@ acronym

winner! I LOL'd!!

@ Farking Sweet

The in flight meal will be sushi

@ The_Sponge:

I LOL'd!!!

/the trainer stole the whale's bukkit
//never steal a killer's bukkit
///slashies!!

You people and your whalist comments. He was half-white too, you know.

Alyna_jf: Watch them kill it. ya know, like they do dogs.

You win the thread.

This thread delivers. Sorry about the dead trainer and all, but... this shiat is funny.

Your_Dog: Masso: Holy shiat, to think I just went there last month.

Yeah, you and 700,000 other people.

Hey, where I live that would merit a mention on the local yokel news.

After the earthquake, they interviewed pretty much everyone around who had ever been to Haiti.

KingOfTown: ttyymmnn: Amateur video released in 3....2....1....

Video already!(new window)

/2010

WTF whas that!?.

hoots_toot_ochaye: Yrr

Amazing. Someone else has read that book.

YOU REVENGEFUL SONOFABIATCH! YOU WIN!

Fear not, Horatio Caine is on his way up I95!

R.I.P. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Dale/Trainer/" target="_blank">Dale Trainer</a> (new window)

Title:
President at Self employed
Demographic info
Graphic Design | Destin/Fort Walton Beach, Florida Area


/Dale is the president of Dale

theorellior: I'm going to my media assassin,
Harry Allen, I gotta ask him--
Yo, Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?

Don't believe the hype.

Now the quandry, release a killer, killer whale into the wild where he would not have killed anyone or keep it locked up?

Came here to make a Tragically Hip reference, but I am far to late. Well done, lads.

It was a Shamurder.

Barfmaker: This is stupid, I woulda just put the whale in neutral and coasted it to a stop.

????

Killer Whales, let me say that again just in case some at Sea World didn't understand. Killer Whales! They have been known as such for as far as records were kept. Again is a classic example of man screwing around with mother nature

Fark Me To Tears: FTFA: Emergency personnel were called to the park around 2 p.m. and found a person dead, according to Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman John Mulhall.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to the theme park after receiving a call that an employee had been attacked and injured in the killer whale tank.

Witness Victoria Biniak said she saw the incident from a viewing area.

"The trainer was explaining different things about the whale..and then the trainer that was down there walked away from the window..and then Telly (the whale) took off really fast in the tank and he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the trainer by the waist and started thrashing (her) around," Biniak said.

Biniak confirmed that the trainer who was attacked was a woman and the attack was violent enough for her shoe to fly off.

Biniak said the whale, named Tilikum, or Telly for short, does not typically have a trainer in its tank because it is too large.

Tilikum is a nearly 30-year-old, 12,300-pound bull Orca.

Part of the park has been closed, witnesses said.

The sheriff's office is conducting a death investigation at the theme park.

Somewhere near Miami, Carl Hiaasen is furiously scribbling notes for his next book.

Didn't he already cover this in "Native Tongue"?

How long before the video hits youtube!?!?

/pleaseletitbesoonpleaseletitbesoonpleaseletitbesoon
///You KNOW you're thinking the same thing
///slashies!

Below, I dream of fish.
Above me, Wretched siblings
prance in sequence.



/Approves

Claude Ballse: Reading this thread made me wonder where I can buy fuel for a whale oil lamp? I mean I'm not going to buy one if I can't fire the thing up, you know? Can they run on cow lard? You know, if SeaWorld would recycle their animals, I might just have a shot at getting some whale oil as well as a really cool souvenir.

Anyhow, I gotta pee.

I think they'll run on any rendered fat. There is ample fuel, waddling down the aisles of your local Wal Mart.

ritalinchild 54: Barfmaker: This is stupid, I woulda just put the whale in neutral and coasted it to a stop.

????

Please try to follow along with the rest of the class.

/Toyota

Trainer is now Shampoo.

Bad News - They'll have to put the Orca down

Good News - Fresh Whale at all the local Sushi Bars here in town!

Sherjo311: IT'S JUST BEEN REVOKED

Consider that a divorce!

This is weird. Yesterday, or day before, I think there was a pic in a thread of a trainer on the nose of a whale... anyway, I saw a pic and though, "I wonder how many times the whale eats the trainer?"

Freaks me out sometimes. I don't believe in clairvoyance, but damn. I was singing Taking Care of Business in the shower this morning and it was on when I started my car. Yesterday, a song came on that I initially thought was the Cars, but was Bad Company or something... I switched stations and the first song to come on was the Cars song I wanted to hear. Maybe it's because they only play ten different songs on the radio anymore so my chances are one in ten?

It has happened a bit.

What the hell am I talking about?