SHAMU KILLS TRAINER

[Pete_H]

I love OSHA's response the this whole deal: We told you swimming with Killer Whales was inherently dangerous!

 

Strong work Team Obvious.

[tvashtarkatena]

I work with a guy who was a elephant handler for a quite a long time and he said whenever someone was killed they would just rename the elephant.

 

ROTFLMAO!!

 

 

uhhh, introducing our newest star....Tillicum...uhhhh...Shamu... uhhh "Earl the Killer Whale"

 

I just netflixed "Jodhaa Akbar", a Bollywood epic about 16th century moguls, complete with battle elephants crushing the guts out of foot soldiers' mouths and everything. Not a mode of death Hollywood's addressed yet as far as I can tell.

 

The cool thing about Bollywood is they still do it with lots and lots of real people, elephants, and castles n shit rather than CGI. Spaghetti western style acting, but the music and battle scenes rocked.

 

Shamu should travel to India to have his/her (?) story told properly.

[tvashtarkatena]

It seems like the logic of wild animal trainers is based on "it hasn't happened yet so it probably won't I hope" A lot of them hold on to this after being injured multiple times.

 

I visited a croc farm in Oz. The feeder had a nice bravado thing going before feeding, but once got into the pen with a 2000 lb albino monster that had already killed 3 potential mates to deliver its weekly chicken, he looked like he couldn't wait to get the hell out of there...which he did right quick after dropping off the happy meal. I wondered why he couldn't just chuck the chook over the fence, we wouldn't think any less of him for it for it, but that's Australia for ya.

Edited March 3, 2010 by tvashtarkatena

[ivan]

It seems like the logic of wild animal trainers is based on "it hasn't happened yet so it probably won't I hope" A lot of them hold on to this after being injured multiple times.

that about covers my logic for climbing too....