Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer
NOAA fisheries said that a dead bottlenose dolphin was found on West Mae’s Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana with multiple gunshot wounds on March 13.
The fuck is wrong with people
I don't know, but guns seem to enhance it.
Wait till you hear what happens on the factory farms that nearly everyone's meat and dairy comes from. Animals would be lining up for a chance to be treated as well as this dolphin that died at the hands of this bastard.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. The fishing industry is possibly the biggest monster in the world and people are just fine with what they can not see. I used to own a sailboat. I can tell say first hand it can be disgusting out there. Ya'll need to watch some documentaries. Thousands of marine animals are being slaughtered right now while you're reading this.
Downvoted for speaking the truth
Preach
I want to know what the dolphen was wearing, maybe a dark hoodie. Will they release the arrest record of the dulphin? What was the dolphin holding? Why is so much media attention going to this one dolphon? All sea creatures matter. I read the fisherman thought it was his taser and feared for his life, let's see how you react in a dark alley with a young dofin.
Dofin is their word, we really shouldn't be using it at all. Dolphin is the acceptable spelling and term.
"HE HAD A BLOWGUN I FEARED FOR MY SAFETY"
That Dolphin was No Angel!!!!!!!!!! Stand for are Cop’s and Kneel for are Cross!
If it was a dauphin that was shot, everyone in this corner of the Fediverse would be cheering.
I hear he was buying skittles and a drink. Dolphin was clearly making lean.
The only way this story could be more American was if it had been a child dolphin, in a public school.
We gotta arm the teacher fish
"The dolphin, a juvenile, had injuries consistent with being shot with a firearm," NOAA said.
Halfway there! 🙏
pupfish school
Holy shit that's evil.
Article says near New Orleans, Louisiana if you’re wondering
Cameron Parish is near New Orleans in the same way that Delaware is near Virginia.
Folks not from the south treat it the same way a good hunk of Americans treat Europe, think it’s culturally homogeneous, can’t pronounce the name of most towns/cities properly, and believe that we get along and like one another.
As though I’d ever say anything positive about South Carolina or Florida
This is American af 🇺🇸
Yes. It's good to see the NOAA jumping in like this.
The obvious solution is to arm other dolphins with AR-15s.
I think SONAR-15s are the aquatic version
GOD DAMMIT that was the first thing I thought of and I was just about to post it! Post was 6 hours ago, your reply was 44 minutes ago. I was too late.
I hate you, have my upvote.
I thought I was too late to the party as well. It was 5 hours old when I posted, which is usually past most of the engagement.
I feel so bad for laughing at this lmao
Maybe it was another dolphin. They don't report dolphin-on-dolphin violence.
Whomever it was, it was done on porpoise.
Just as the Founders intended.
"Fuck the dolphins!" - Thomas Jefferson, probably
What do the changelings care about sea mammals?
Off-topic, but it's annoying how Lemmy will grab an image for a post, you go to the article, and can't find it anywhere... wtf?
Bullets slow down exponentially in water. They caught a dolphin and then shot it to death on land.
Or shot a curious dolphin at the surface.
I wonder about that. Aren't dolphins and whales non-buoyant, in the sense that they sink when they die?
Looking, I find https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-happens-when-whales-die.html
I guess the dolphin may have been at the floating stage?
Damn who is beefing with sea life?
Who votes Trump?
Fuck James.
OK real shit if you shot and killed a dolphin, why in the fuck would you not harvest the meat? Like when else are you ever gonna get to try dolphin? Obviously I wouldn't personally shoot a dolphin but if I did you can bet your ass I'm gonna try its meat instead of letting it rot
Like the guy that killed the wolf in Wyoming? Surprisingly a lot of people that play around with guns seem to think that life is cheap, They're willing to kill people for lots of reasons, like arguing over parking spaces or whatever. Animal life is cheaper still. When you have a hammer you're just looking for nails, and a dolphin is just another throwaway to shoot at.
Dolphins can rape...so in the 0.000000001% chance that it raped its killer or did some other kind of gruesome attack, I guess that could be the justification.
Not defending it; just trying to answer your hypothetical questions! Lmao
Because the entire point was clearly to torture an intelligent being. Disturbing.
Just buy a can of tuna.
Couldn't it have washed ashore and then someone used it as target practice? Artical says gunshots happened near the time of death.
The authorities likely checked the dolphin's internal temperature to figure out time of death. And if the wounds had been hemorrhaging = the dolphin was alive when it was shot.
This is the same way authorities figure out when a person died and if injuries occured before or after death.
Artical says gunshots happened near the time of death.
Well yeah... gunshot wounds and death tend to be highly correlated.
@BradleyUffner @ThePantser Correlation != Causation
https://i.ibb.co/NjzRHyF/IMG-5210.gif
But seriously, humanity is the herpes of planet, Earth. 😤
Who's to say it wasn't another dolphin? Those things are smart and also violent. They probably can figure out how to shoot a gun.
If they get in cahoots with the Orcas attacking ships, we're screwed.
The beluga mafia strikes again. Flipper sleeps with the humans.
We should check with the dolphins known associates. Maybe this was a gang killing.
Or raping
According to IDF it's a Palestinian... Oops, Hamas dolphin!
He brought it to himself
/Ironic
Sounds to me like dolphins need to step up their game.
https://theweek.com/articles/476840/are-dolphins-gangsters-sea
Should we give them gatling guns?
Damn it feels good to be a dolphin.
Yeah Flipper isnt just a name
Dolphin: I have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Cli-
And of course there is the complaining about the jokes. Reddit indeed.
Welcome to the Internet. It's not exclusive to Reddit.
Less than a year for this site to turn into a shit hole. Well done buddy, you did it.
Just to re-state the comment I replied to for when it's inevitably gone:
The gave those coonasses guns. First mistake.
Classy.
Bad response, but not a racial slur - means idiot Cajun.
Restored, but take your downvotes
Sucks for the dolphin but I'm not sure why everyone cares so much. There are real murders happening.
What is sad is you don’t understand that this is a real murder.
Its not that I don't "understand" I just disagree. I do not value animal lives as much as human lives which is why I'm not referring to this as a real murder. This is sad of course and whoever did it deserves to be punished for it. Its just odd to me that this is such a big deal to so many people when so many human beings are being murdered on a daily basis. The reaction I've seen to this outweighs that of any human murder I've seen in recent memory.
I would rather see an effort to do something about the nets
Why not both?
It can be both. The reality is that this is likely one mentally ill person while there are thousands being killed by fishing nets but I didn't see any articles or rewards posted for those killers.
Yeah, it would be great to catch that one psycho, but it would be way better to catch the psychos that do this all day every day. I think that's the point they were trying to make.
Why in the world is this being downvoted? An absurd number of dolphins are murdered as an accidental byproduct of commercial net fishing every single day. What the hell goes through the mind of a fool that downnvotes this comment?
