Covers both the messy and the politics this forum area is named for. WA Fisheries Department refuses to pay for whale carcass removal as they are 'mammals, not fish', mayor says. Fill story - WA Fisheries Department refuses to pay for whale carcass removal as they are 'mammals, not fish', mayor says - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
This is how they do it in Oregon. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw&src_vid=xBgThvB_IDQ&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_696072#t=43s"]Oregon's Exploding Whale - 2012 KATU AM Northwest (KATU's 50th Anniversary) - YouTube[/ame]
Melville spent an an entire chapter of Moby Dick arguing that the whale was a fish. If I were there, I'd argue that literature trumps taxonomy.
:lol: :lol: :lol: This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen! :beer :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Funny how government agencies overreach on grasping authority....unless it means they must pay $$$ or give services... Wife keeps on saying we should move to Canada to be closer to the relatives and in a less messy political climate..... Hm...maybe Australia is an option....lol...as in "other side of the planet".....
I dated a few of those in college (before they became carcasses. I never got into the necrophilia thing much.). I begged the Fisheries Department to take a few of them away as a personal favor (and public service), but they used that same lame old mammals excuse on me too, that and a suggestion to maybe remove my beer goggles. You'd think they'd come up with something better, having 20 years to think about it.