Dolphin dies after being passed around for selfies

KKkitty · 19-02-2016 12:11AM #1

A crowd of idiots decided it was a great idea to pass a dolphin around for stupid selfies. Afterwards the dolphin died because of being out of the water. It was discarded on the sand. I actually can't get over the sheer stupidity or heartlessness of some so called people. What do ye think? Link below.
Dolphin dies after being passed around for selfies http://jrnl.ie/2610705

anewme · 19-02-2016 12:15AM

Saw this earlier. so upsetting. Not sure abiut the question "what do you think?" There is nothing to think about this or options, only to highlight mans inhumanity to man.

BMJD · 19-02-2016 12:16AM

People pose with animals they kill all the time, what's with all the hypocrisy of this? Morons

KKkitty · 19-02-2016 12:16AM

anewme wrote: »

Saw this earlier. so upsetting. Not sure why you are asking "what do you think?" There is nothing to think about this.

Should have added that I'm wondering if these people should be fined or more harshly punished for this?

The Backwards Man · 19-02-2016 12:17AM

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

19-02-2016 12:17AM

Saw a documentary once where people dragged a dead guy around to parties, think it was called Weekend at Bernie's. Sick people out there.

19-02-2016 12:20AM

It's mainly adults in the picture. Kids I guess you could understand but adults? I swear, people today are so utterly obsessed with letting everyone know everything they're doing all the time and how great their lives are. At a match at the Aviva? Better check in on FB. On your holidays, quick tell everyone. It's all a bloody show these days, people forcing memories with selfies and status updates rather than actually living life. Going off topic here but it's annoying.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 19-02-2016 12:22AM

Saw this earlier and it really upset me. Apparently once the bunch of drunken morons had finished passing the calf around they left it down on the beach instead of returning it to the ocean.

Imagine that poor dolphin mother out there looking for her baby, makes me sick.

Wibbs · 19-02-2016 12:23AM

Retarded morons. *shakes head*. It's damned hard to lose money betting on the mind numbing stupidity of a mob in action. On their own people can and usually are fine, in en masse? All bets are off.

timthumbni · 19-02-2016 12:27AM

Saw this earlier. Very sad and very stupid. You would like to think they just were so just so thick that they didn't know what they were doing. Who knows?

Fleawuss · 19-02-2016 12:28AM

It's idiotic. It's groupthink. It's FB Shyte. And, take a deep breath Eco warriors and PC slaves, it's one fcuking dolphin. Get over it.

19-02-2016 12:28AM

KKkitty wrote: »

Should have added that I'm wondering if these people should be fined or more harshly punished for this?

No doubting their stupidity...but doubt it's a crime. Fishermen pose with fish they themselves have hauled out of the water all the time. Of course the context is different...just not sure criminal law could be phrased in such a way as to criminalise one while allowing the other. It's just...objectionable rather than criminal.

lazybones32 · 19-02-2016 12:30AM

Another reason to outlaw selfies.

anewme wrote: »

... There is nothing to think about this or options, only to highlight mans inhumanity to man.

lol.

cowboyBuilder · 19-02-2016 12:32AM

You'd be amazed the amount of ****wits who actually think they love animals and don't think theres any harm in frightening it to get a photo - in this case killing it.
That cúnt holding it up , I wanna stick his stupid fat face under water while snapping a few selfies.

dick head.

I remember I was on safari in Namibia with this moron, who really believed she loved animals, one night a young owl flew into the camp and was grounded - anyway the stupid cow scared it half to death trying to get a close up shot of it, camera flash and all - we had to restrain her so the owl could get some space - dumb bitch.

Same cúnt wanted to feed monkeys after being SPECIFICALLY TOLD NOT TO DO SO - with the reasons why it is actually poisoning them.

She also used to go on about her "pet" birds she had in a cage - Do you have any f*cking idea how they get that bird into captivity in the 1st place ??

people are f*cking idiots, and social media is making it worse - a race to get photos/videos of something just for like whoring.

F*ck off - I hate people.

//rant ......

Stheno · 19-02-2016 12:32AM

I saw this earlier and thought it was sad

Dr. Mantis Toboggan · 19-02-2016 12:33AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

They're a pack of bastards.

anewme · 19-02-2016 12:38AM

lazybones32 wrote: »

Another reason to outlaw selfies.

lol.

Not sure what you mean by this?

Can you clarify, please?

I am giving my opinion on a topic on a public forum. Is this not what boards.ie is about.?

Not sure what offence was given.

My opinion is as valid as yours. Please respect that.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 19-02-2016 12:42AM

There was another case here a couple of years back where a bunch of clowns started pouring cider down a dolphin's blowhole and jumping up on her back. After a while the dolphin lost it's cool and attacked one of these muppets and rammed them up against the pier wall.

There was talk at the time that the dolphin would have to destroyed because it had now become hostile to all bathers. How about staying out of her environment instead, it's a powerful wild animal, not a plaything.

Mint Aero · 19-02-2016 12:44AM

I don't see a single camera nor selfie in the photos. What really happened?

Jerichoholic · 19-02-2016 12:44AM

Selfies and the people who take them are disgusting. Self adoration is no adoration..

Yester · 19-02-2016 12:48AM

Mint Aero wrote: »

I don't see a single camera nor selfie in the photos. What really happened?

Fair point.

lazybones32 · 19-02-2016 12:58AM

anewme wrote: »

Not sure what you mean by this?

Can you clarify, please?

I am giving my opinion on a topic on a public forum. Is this not what boards.ie is about.?

Not sure what offence was given.

My opinion is as valid as yours. Please respect that.

You posted "man's inhumanity to man" in an article about a dolphin. I laughed. I apologise for laughing, it was very insensitive and disrespectful of me.

:(

lazybones32 · 19-02-2016 01:00AM

Mint Aero wrote: »

I don't see a single camera nor selfie in the photos. What really happened?

To say the calf beached itself, probably wasn't a good sign. But the Indo will roll with any headline that brings traffic.

Dial Hard · 19-02-2016 01:07AM

Fleawuss wrote:

It's idiotic. It's groupthink. It's FB Shyte. And, take a deep breath Eco warriors and PC slaves, it's one fcuking dolphin. Get over it.

It's the mindset rather than the "one fcuking dolphin" that's the issue.

Mint Aero wrote:

I don't see a single camera nor selfie in the photos. What really happened?

All of the photos I've seen show a sea of cameras. I hate to sound like *that* prick, but any chance of a link to the pics you saw?

anewme · 19-02-2016 01:56AM

anewme wrote: »

Saw this earlier. so upsetting. Not sure abiut the question "what do you think?" There is nothing to think about this or options, only to highlight mans inhumanity to man.

lazybones32 wrote: »

Another reason to outlaw selfies.

lol.

anewme wrote: »

Not sure what you mean by this?

Can you clarify, please?

I am giving my opinion on a topic on a public forum. Is this not what boards.ie is about.?

Not sure what offence was given.

My opinion is as valid as yours. Please respect that.

lazybones32 wrote: »

You posted "man's inhumanity to man" in an article about a dolphin. I laughed. I apologise for laughing, it was very insensitive and disrespectful of me. :(

i am still unsure what point you are trying to make here or why you think I am stupid.

In my spare time, I work with abused animals(mostly dogs, not Dolphins !!)and while I'm not asking for your help, understanding or contribution, I am asking for you not to sneer at me and respect my position and opinion.

I believe this should be a given, and I should not have to ask this on a public forum( so you can shove your sneering lol where the sun don't shine)

The article below is about slaughter of Dolphins and whales.

I firmly believe that men's inhumanity to man shows if we can't respect God's creatures(to quote my Mum!!)then there's not much hope for the rest of us.

When we begin to care enough for innocents then we will have found the compassion to save ourselves.

Perhaps you have heard about the annual horrendous slaughter of 20,000 Dolphins in a small fishing village of Taiji in Japan.

There was a stunning documentary made on it called “The Cove.

But every year in Denmark, there is another horrible and shameful practice that emerges. There is the mass killing of Calderon Dolphins and Pilot Whales in the Faroe Islands.

Why?

Well it seems the mass slaughter is a celebration. The people of the Faroe Islands descend from the Vikings, and Whaling was a part of their tradition. But ironically and sadly the people there are being poisoned from the kill. The animals possess a high level of mercury.

Perhaps you know that Dolphins and Whales are highly social animals. That Dolphins and Whales, as part of the Cetacea order of mammals, are super intelligent. In fact, Dolphins are considered the second most intelligent species on the planet. A group of researchers have promoted the idea that Dolphins should be elevated to ‘Non Human Persons.’

It may be that Dolphins are second in intelligence. But given the way humans act, I think I would have to question whether they are actually in second place.

It is known that Dolphins and Whales have a wide range of emotions. Maybe they even surpass humans in their emotional intelligence.

Take a look at the mass murder of ‘Non Human Persons’ below at the Faroe Islands. These are creatures that have elevated themselves to majesty and beauty. They are harmless to humanity. Their mass murder should be looked at in light of what humanity is capable of doing to each other. There is a connection between the dolphin and whale slaughters and man’s inhumanity to man.

At some point, people all over the world may realize that killing innocents is unnecessary. When that happens then there will be no dolphin and whale slaughters. But it will also mean that there will be no more wars in which the innocents of humanity are slaughtered.

The innocent dolphins are slaughtered for food, fun, and tradition. Their killing in this day and age is senseless and unnecessary. Humans are slaughtered in wars for profit, power, and even fun for a psychopathic leadership. The killing of humans in war slaughter is senseless and even unnecessary.

Someday humanity will move beyond desire to slaughter innocents. But that someday may never come. Human destructive practices are destroying the eco-system and the planet. In a certain karmic sense, our cold hearted blood lust is not only killing innocents but it is killing everything.

When we begin to care enough for innocents we will have found the compassion to save ourselves.

mynameis905 · 19-02-2016 03:00AM

Fleawuss wrote: »

It's idiotic. It's groupthink. It's FB Shyte. And, take a deep breath Eco warriors and PC slaves, it's one fcuking dolphin. Get over it.

+1

Thousands of people getting slaughtered all over the world day in, day out and people get upset over a dolphin? Spare me.

Maximus Alexander · 19-02-2016 03:29AM

anewme wrote: »

i am still unsure what point you are trying to make here or why you think I am stupid.

He was just chuckling because you said it highlighted "man's inhumanity to man", whereas it actually highlighted man's inhumanity to dolphins.

B.A._Baracus · 19-02-2016 05:18AM

mynameis905 wrote: »

+1

Thousands of people getting slaughtered all over the world day in, day out and people get upset over a dolphin? Spare me.

It's absolutely quite sad to say this... But you are right.
Where is the media coverage of some kid who died of starvation in the poorest kip of Africa (etc) today.

Don't get me wrong that Dolphin should had lived. Someone should have put it back in to the sea. But when you step back and realise what pulls the heartstrings of people more it is quite messed up.

19-02-2016 06:46AM

Lol!

Anewme's outrage at being corrected each time s/he insists that dolphins are part of mankind, or "non human people".

charlietheminxx · 19-02-2016 07:32AM

People get upset about dolphins because they are so intelligent. They are beautiful and fun creatures who deserve more than to be treated as a prop for a photo.

Have you ever had a dog you treated as part of the family? They aren't human, but they feel like a person to you, they have their own personality and quirks. People who see intelligent animals that way are going to be more upset about this than people who just see an animal as an animal.

Mint Aero · 19-02-2016 07:40AM

Dial Hard wrote: »

All of the photos I've seen show a sea of cameras. I hate to sound like *that* prick, but any chance of a link to the pics you saw?

The pics in the link. I see two people with phones as is normal in today's world none of whom are in selfie pose and only one of which is taking a picture. Given the number of people one person taking a picture is hardly out of the ordinary. Also I only see one person holding the dolphin which allows me to deduce the dolphin isn't being passed around. Also the final photos look like it's getting medical attention. From the link the pictures do not match the purported story at all.

Dolphin dies after being passed around for selfies

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