Cool way to save a whale

1. Paul
   November 4th, 2006 at 10:03 am

   Hey, I can top this! I promise to let TWO whales go for only $50,000, THREE for $65,000. Hell, for $100,000 I'll promise never to kill another whale ever!

2. gail
   November 4th, 2006 at 10:12 am

   Wow, Paul! Just let me get out my checkbook . . .

3. pookie
   November 4th, 2006 at 11:00 am

   that's retarded

4. gail
   November 4th, 2006 at 11:45 am

   It would certainly be tricky to verify.

5. Gloria
   November 4th, 2006 at 12:25 pm

   Wouldn't this just spur fishermen on, since now they can capture one whale ad infinitum?

   Yeah. Not effective.

6. gail
   November 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pm

   The article says it's just for "consciousness raising," but I wonder if you couldn't confirm the sale by choosing and tagging a specific whale with a GPS and signalling device and then suing anyone who kills it.

7. Alex
   November 6th, 2006 at 1:29 am

   hm, how would you tell another fisherman not to fish that particular whale because you've bought it?

8. Tim
   November 6th, 2006 at 5:37 am

   It is just another money making scam by the animal rights cult members.

   I think for every stunt they do like this that we should go kill 10 to put a stop to stuff like this.

   Look at all the dead sting rays for example. Get people fired up, and they will get revenge.

9. gail
   November 6th, 2006 at 8:13 am

   The whale boats are pretty high tech, so they could pick up an electronic signal, the kind the marine biologists use for tracking specific whales. I'm not saying it's a workable idea. Just wondering...

10. gail
    November 6th, 2006 at 8:17 am

    Tim,that's actually why I wondered about the tagging idea,because without a way to identify a specific whale as private property, the money is just going down the drain. Now whether privatizing sea mammals is even legal is a question for the lawyers.

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