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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued an alert for waters off Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
http://news.msn.com/us/dolphins-found-shot-slashed-stabbed-in-gulf-of-mexico
GULFPORT, Miss. Authorities are investigating several attacks on dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico after some were found with gunshot wounds, cuts and missing jaws.
The Sun Herald reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a "heads up" directive. That puts officials on alert for an increase in human interaction with dolphins in the waters across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Authorities say cases of gunshot wounds, mutilations and other injuries have been detected in recent months.
Scientists from the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport have responded to four dolphin strandings. And on Friday, a team went to Deer Island and found a second dolphin dead with a portion of his jaw missing.
A dolphin found dead earlier near Gautier had a 9mm bullet wound.
"It went through the abdomen, into the kidneys and killed it," said Moby Solangi, IMMS executive director.
He said recovering the dolphins and performing a necropsy to determine the cause of death is heartbreaking for his staff.
"We think there's someone or some group on a rampage," he said. "They not only kill them but also mutilate them."
The public can help by reporting any information they may know about the mutilations, he said. He also asked recreational and commercial fishermen to be on the watch for anyone killing the dolphins.
Attacks on the dolphins carry fines and jail sentences.
Solangi said he doesn't know why anyone would want to kill the dolphins. "They already are under a lot of stress from the oil spill, the dead zone," he said. However, in the past fishermen and charter boat captains have been convicted of harming dolphins they thought were taking bait or fish.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)What???????????
That bad people do bad things??????????
Been going on since humans first walked the earth.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)glacierbay
(2,477 posts)never have, never will, I've told you that before, second, knives kill, rocks kill, baseball bats kill, cars kill, nets kiss dolphins, sharks kill dolphins, spear guns kill dolphins.
You're trying to do your usual crap of equating gun owners with thugs, that meme left the station along time ago and it ain't coming back.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)But then, deliberate obtuseness is the basis more most pro-murder anti-gun control propaganda.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)miss the point? What fucking point???
Bad people do bad things????
No shit, I deal with POS thugs 4 days a week, 10 hours a day.
Pro-murder anti-gun control propaganda????
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)glacierbay
(2,477 posts)Bull, I mean.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm pissed at the idiots who are shooting dolphins.
That sucks.
Don't quite get why you are so defensive about someone letting us know about it.
That's odd.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)where did you get the idea I'm mad?
This poster is always trying to equate lawful gun owners with those that want to deny him his rights.
And I was just asking him what his point was. Nothing more, nothing less.
MADem
(135,425 posts)OP.
The point seems clear to me--people who shoot dolphins are assholes.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)right? And my reaction, considering his past statements on gun owners, is mild.
And just what did this have to do with Zimmerman or the NRA?
Isn't that a little excessive to include them when they had nothing to do with this heinous act?
MADem
(135,425 posts)And leave it at that?
Instead, you made the thread more about your fight with the OP than the fact that some asshole is shooting dolphins.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)The gun groupies stalk anyone thread to thread who puts down the all mighty gun
and the posters above and their other buddies (seems some have more than one name if you ask me) have already mocked me by saying they eat squirrels and other creatures of this earth.
Wouldn't put it past gun and NRA groupies to want to dine on dolphins after using them as target practice.
Let alone they call people like Trayvon Martin animals. Zimmerman could have killed the kid that would have grown up to cure cancer.
Killing a dolphin has to be the lowest of the low.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)glacierbay
(2,477 posts)Why do you even care? Ask him why he brought up Zimmerman and the NRA, which have NOTHING to do with this incident.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021843438#post40
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)The OP is attempting to bring crap from the Gungeon into GD.
DaniDubois
(154 posts)RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)DaniDubois
(154 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and I am proud to say 100% of any gun post I make is anti-gun, anti-NRA
100%.
but they don't like dissent there much
but also watch it, as they attempt to get alot of posts deleted if you don't vow allegiance
argiel1234
(390 posts)You seem to love apologizing for murder , whether its dolphins or Palestinians
Nice avatar as well. Im sure some people see that and fall for it
txwhitedove
(3,919 posts)found "shot, cut, and mutilated".
Upton
(9,709 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)as soon as there is sufficient media density.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 18, 2012, 07:26 PM - Edit history (1)
you've got it wrong, it's now MMM, whatever the hell that means.
I just call him Blooming Idiot.
justanidea
(291 posts)Article has nothing to do with Zimmerman or the NRA.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)but he just can't resist himself.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)glacierbay
(2,477 posts)That bad people do bad things? That RW talking point? That humans have been cruel since the first human walked the earth? That RW talking point? Please point out where I was wrong.
Fact is that anything that any pro gun person says on DU is a RW talking point to you and your fellow gun controllers.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 18, 2012, 05:43 PM - Edit history (1)
or taking out another liberal like 99.99999999999999999999% of all gun killings are done against (aka the rightwing radical that killed the judge and wounded Gabby),
aka any other legal gun mass murderer like James Earl Ray etc.
after all, the dolphin you probably figure is just an animal and deserves to be shot right?
be consistent now.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)are fibbing, I never said that shooting animals is sporting, and just where did I say that an animal deserves to be shot?
And for your info, most killings are drug related, gang member on gang member. Where do you come up with this nonsense?
You need to delete this vile post.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)You gun people go round robin
hunting is a sport you say (so is bowling, my ball is in a locker at the bowling alley)
then you say you hunt to eat (yeah right, I bet you stop at Duncan Donuts...never passed one that didn't have at least one police officer wasting time inside it).
then you say you are a collector (well, I don't carry my stamps in a holster).
then you say miles away from your home you need to protect your home(then why is the gun outside the home?)
then a child dies
then a dolphin dies
but why do you keep bringing up the Mafia? That is so 1970s.
I did edit above
you meant the gunnies, not you personally. The milllion dollar suitswearing NRA talking points about hunting, collecting, blah blah blahing, etc.that the gun groupies always regurgitate.
Guns are rightwing. And don't belong on a beach killing dolphins.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)portrayed in Gangs of NY back the turn of the 19th century.
Or are you referring to the IRA?
How bout the hippies? Yippies?
or is it the UK rock group The Gang of 4?
maybe it's Hail Hail the Gang's all here
maybe you are referring to Spanky and our Gang (the music group, or the Little Rascals Our gang tv show?
I ASSUME (ass-u-me) that you are not racially profilling blacks are you?(again!!!)
Like Zimmerman did to the innocent Trey Martin
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)They're also the only non-human species known to have sex for pleasure.
I hope they track down and prosecute those bastards.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)People like this are animals who need to be tracked down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law and given the harshest penalty allowable under the law.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Animals have far greater ethics than people like that.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)My bad. I don't understand how anyone can shoot or maim/injure such a beautiful, intelligent animal just for the fun of it. This is beyond sick.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)There are too many disgusting cases of abuse to begin listing. I'm not religious, but I do have ethics.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)From the common fly to humans, we're all here for a purpose.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)glacierbay
(2,477 posts)I remember being stationed in the Panama Canal Zone back in the 70's and the mosquitos were so large, we were shooting them down with SAM's.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)by gun lovers who don't seem to mind if an occasional innocent dolphin gets shot.
If only deer, bears and dolphins had the firepower to shoot back.
NO hunters are NOT doing any favors by (as they say) getting rid of them to lower the population. (that reminds me of someone named Adolf in WW2).
Gilligan's Island (of all things) got it right with their hunting man episode.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)the law needs to be changed.
DaniDubois
(154 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)glacierbay
(2,477 posts)Jealous RW rednecks angry that there's yet another species smarter than them?
Hell, a rock is smarter than them.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)nolabear
(41,902 posts)The Gulf's dolphins have been loved and saved from oil spills and hurricanes and kept safe from fishing nets by the very "rednecks" you feel superior enough to slam en masse. If you've got a specific beef, have at, but you are being everything that gets liberals broad brushed the same way you're broad brushing the people of that region.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)than I wanted to.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)expedition, and a big old great white shark will be in the area, and real hungry. Karma, or universal justice, can do strange things sometimes in life.
glacierbay
(2,477 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,711 posts)RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)Your title makes this thread gungeon flamebait.
nolabear
(41,902 posts)They're investigating and whomever did this terrible thing had better hope the police catch them because some of the folk in the area are in a rage. They work hard to fish and keep those dolphins safe, and they know the pods well. It's horrible.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)pissed about Obama's reelection. Sick.
aikoaiko
(34,113 posts)While the article is perfectly fine for GD, the OP framed it as a Gungeon post. Please repost there or repost here without the bait.