Seal hunters expected to kill 234,000 Wednesday ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) -- The final leg of Canada's contentious seal hunt moved to the ice floes off northeastern Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday, with sealers expected to slaughter another 234,000 harp seal pups in just one day. . . .

"Animals could be bred and SLAUGHTERED..."

Damn... 35 seconds.

That...was sweet!

Oh, seals...I was hoping to see it was going to be something else....

N/C/MT into Piatilla Airport?

Kanada still slaughters seals and walruses?

Quoted: Kanada still slaughters seals and walruses?

Well, if they are taking 234,000 it ain'd like there's a shortage of the things.

If they was ugly, would you care?

TXL

Quoted: Kanada still slaughters seals and walruses?

Pop control dude.

Because seals have monetary value, they have been managed properly.  There isn't a shortage.

Those baby seals have it coming.

Nasty creatures.

I got no problem with it......but I'm an ass like that.

you hear about them killing baby harp seals
but you never hear about what they do with them.

i want harp seal products!
like a fuzzy throw pillow shaped like  

Kill the baby seals, its for the children!

I wish I could invite those crazy canucks to come down here and club all the baby kittens and other stray cats that roam around here.

Don't bludgeon a seal, 'cause you need a meal...do it cause you wanna hear that little creature squeal...

I'm gonna go find my eye-pokin' stick.  

Wonder what they taste like?

Quoted: Wonder what they taste like?

Rubber chicken.

Quoted: N/C/MT into Piatilla Airport?

How about in English this time?

Quoted: you hear about them killing baby harp seals but you never hear about what they do with them. i want harp seal products! like a fuzzy throw pillow shaped like

See thats what the F i'm talking about.

I always hear how many baby seals have been clubbed or slaughtered.

But where's my baby seal coat? where's my baby seal car seats?

They obviously aren't killing enough.

I haven't ever even seen any seal products for sale.

I tried to talk my wife into this as a vacation, but she wanted no parts of it..................

I wisdh they would come down to oregon and kill some sea lions. There is so many they swim clear up the columbia river to the dams to feed on salmon in the fish ladders!

Quoted: Quoted: N/C/MT into Piatilla Airport? How about in English this time?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package

What they dont talk about is the Psyop Team that saved their bacon, otherwise it would have been a bunch more dead Seals

So this baby seal walks into a club....  

Quoted: Quoted: you hear about them killing baby harp seals but you never hear about what they do with them. i want harp seal products! like a fuzzy throw pillow shaped like   See thats what the F i'm talking about. I always hear how many baby seals have been clubbed or slaughtered. But where's my baby seal coat? where's my baby seal car seats? They obviously aren't killing enough. I haven't ever even seen any seal products for sale.

Most of the seal skins get exported to Norway and Denmark.  


In the Albertville (IIRC) Winter Olympics, the entire Danish team wore seal-skin coats to the opening ceremony.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: you hear about them killing baby harp seals but you never hear about what they do with them. i want harp seal products! like a fuzzy throw pillow shaped like   See thats what the F i'm talking about. I always hear how many baby seals have been clubbed or slaughtered. But where's my baby seal coat? where's my baby seal car seats? They obviously aren't killing enough. I haven't ever even seen any seal products for sale. Most of the seal skins get exported to Norway and Denmark.   In the Albertville (IIRC) Winter Olympics, the entire Danish team wore seal-skin coats to the opening ceremony.

Seriously though, I be those seal skin coats are warm.

If It didn't look to much like a pimp I would wear a fur coat everyday.

I think i'd do it just to spite peta.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: you hear about them killing baby harp seals but you never hear about what they do with them. i want harp seal products! like a fuzzy throw pillow shaped like   See thats what the F i'm talking about. I always hear how many baby seals have been clubbed or slaughtered. But where's my baby seal coat? where's my baby seal car seats? They obviously aren't killing enough. I haven't ever even seen any seal products for sale. Most of the seal skins get exported to Norway and Denmark.   In the Albertville (IIRC) Winter Olympics, the entire Danish team wore seal-skin coats to the opening ceremony. Seriously though, I be those seal skin coats are warm. If It didn't look to much like a pimp I would wear a fur coat everyday. I think i'd do it just to spite peta.

When I was in Denmark last winter, I was totally planning on splurging and getting myself an nice seal coat or jacket.

Then I noticed that it was all women and incredibly flaming old gay guys that wore the seal jackets/coats.  

It would be an AWESOME pimp coat!  

When do i get my turn? I want to bludgeon a seal puphave

Quoted: When do i get my turn? I want to bludgeon a seal pup I have an idea, I want to club a baby seal with an elephant tusk. Then maybe I can have a dolphin salad sandwich for lunch.

All from the back of your tiger. Which is also an aphrodisiac in parts of asia.

(seriously, why do they need aphrodisiacs, they multiply like rabbits)

Importation of seal skins, etc. into the US is forbidden and has been for quite a long time.  Personally, I think that beating adolescent seals to death before they can defend themselves or get away is pretty f**ked up.


US Customs Link


Fur-Seal or Sea-Otter Skins

Sec. 12.60 Importation prohibited.

The transportation, importation, sale, or possession of the skins of fur seals or sea otters is prohibited if such skins were taken contrary to the provisions of section 2 of the act of February 26, 1944 (58 Stat. 100-104) or, the case of such skins taken under the authority of the act or any fur-seal agreement, if the skins are not officially marked and certified as required by section 2 of the act. Section 16 makes the act inapplicable to skins taken for scientific purposes under a special permit.
[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51253, Dec. 21, 1988]

Sec. 12.61 Fur-seal or sea-otter skins permitted entry.

(a) Fur-seal or sea-otter skins taken by Indians, Aleuts, or other aborigines under the authority of section 3 of the act, fur-seal skins taken under the authority of the Canadian Government, and fur-seal skins taken on the Pribilof Islands and other specified areas under the authority of section 4 of the act shall be admitted to entry if officially marked and certified as having been lawfully taken and if accompanied by a declaration of the shipper identifying the skins by marks and numbers as those covered by the official certificate.
(b) Fur-seal or sea-otter skins taken in waters or on land not specified in the act or in the fur-seal agreement with Canada or other fur-seal agreement shall be admitted to entry upon the production of evidence satisfactory to the port director that they have been so taken.
[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51253, Dec. 21, 1988]

Sec. 12.62 Enforcement; duties of Customs officers.

(a) In accordance with the authority contained in sections 10 and 12 of the act, Customs officers shall arrest or cause to be arrested persons violating the provisions of the act or of any regulation made pursuant thereto; shall search vessels when there is reasonable cause to believe that such vessels are subject to seizure under the act, shall seize any vessel used or employed or which it appears has been or is about to be used or employed in violation of the act or any regulation made pursuant thereto; and shall seize fur seals and sea otters, or the skins thereof, killed, captured, transported, imported, offered for sale, or possessed by any person contrary to the provisions of the act or of any regulation made pursuant thereto.
(b) All articles, including vessels and equipment, seized by Customs officers for violation of the act shall be turned over to the nearest officer or agent of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, for appropriate disposition under the act, receipts to be taken in duplicate therefor. One copy of each such receipt shall be transmitted to Headquarters, U.S. Customs Service with a detailed report of the facts in the particular case involved.
[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51253, Dec. 21, 1988]

Sec. 12.63 Seal-skin or sea-otter-skin waste.

Seal-skin or sea-otter-skin waste composed of small pieces not large enough to be sewed together and utilized as dressed fur shall not be subject to the requirements of the regulations in this part.

"Animals have two purposes in life: to be tasty and look flattering on you" - Unknown comedian.

Hunter to seal: "Let's go clubbing"

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: N/C/MT into Piatilla Airport? How about in English this time? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package What they dont talk about is the Psyop Team that saved their bacon, otherwise it would have been a bunch more dead Seals

I'm sorry but I still don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

What does Manuel Noriega have to do with baby seals?
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Oh shit I just got it.... "Seals".

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Run Forest Run!

So a baby seal walks into a club..............

Originally I was thinking that there were 234,000 graduates of BUDS who were gonna get pegged.

Quoted: It would be an AWESOME pimp coat!

Or Kitty cushion...

Baby seals are  the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered animal you ever set eyes on!

Baby seals got a vicious streak a mile wide! They are Killers!

They've got huge, sharp-- eh-- they can leap about-- look at the bones!



Clubbing or the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch....it's your only hope.!!

And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.'
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--
And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe the baby seal, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

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Damn, I wish I could do that to my f%#ken neighbors dog!!!

Quoted: Originally I was thinking that there were 234,000 graduates of BUDS who were gonna get pegged. Quoted: It would be an AWESOME pimp coat!   Or Kitty cushion...

I actually have a seal skin that one of my cats likes to lay on.  



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Ironically, I also have a cool Royal Copenhagen porcelain piece of an angry polar bear mauling a seal sitting on top of it.

(The scale might be a little off - my Maine Coon is a large cat, about 20 lbs)