Why kill the whale? The whale is doing what it does. It is a killer whale. Anyone crazy enough to go near it, well, is crazy. You don't see me playing "hide the salmon" with a grizzly.

Seriously, props to the trainers who were brave enough to "train" the whale. These people are as brave as they come. But a wise man once said that there's a fine line between bravery and insanity.

Do I feel bad for the two people who died? Sure. But along the same lines as I feel bad when a cast member of Jackass gets injured.

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(for the record, the third guy died of hypothermia and the whale was just playing with his corpse, so don't blame the whale for that dumb ass's death)

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wow. so everyone who gets killed in a car accident is at fault because they knew the risks of driving a car?!? you put yourself in the situation so it's ALL your fault. i mean there's a MUCH higher incidence of being killed in a car accident than being killed by a whale, right? so are we all insane then?? really?

i'm aware of how difficult it would be to return the whale to the wild - just wanted to give an option to the bleeding heart PETA people.

i love animals but i'm tellin ya right now - if an animal hurts/maims/kills anyone i know - it's a dead animal.

How the hell is driving a car related to being in a confined space with a KILLER whale? To my knowledge, there's MILLIONS of people driving, but only maybe a few thousand who train KILLER whales.

And if you wanna think that way, don't you think that trainer was burning the candle from both ends by DRIVING and training KILLER whales? Hmm???

Driving is almost a necessity nowadays. Swimming with a KILLER whale, not so much.

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mmmk...that time of the month is it, eh? what a buncha grumpy gills!! 😞

Like i said......it's 'high profile" because it happened while the people were watching.
I can understand them continueing the shows. The other people there have families to feed. How long should they have to wait? I mean, who could decide that?
One of my wife's coworkers (friend) litterally dropped dead at work. They didn't shut down for a minute. They brought in a "counselor" to help then cope, but that was it.
It's cold, but it's the way things are these days.

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Cheesey - Yikes. That's some seriously cold stuff there. I don't see how people could keep going. When 9/11 happened, we got the rest of the day off. Not even my boss, but someone higher up called us up and told us to go home to our families immediately.

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lol grumpy ...

Pretty weak response there, you can just say "Kevin, you bastard you're right". 🙂

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that'll be the f'in day!! :physassult:
er um oops -
i'm working on my relaxation techniques...does it really matter if kevin agrees with me or not? no...breathe in, breathe out...picture the clouds...picture the clouds!!!

very zenlike stuff. you should try it. 😃