Sad News About Trask

[allthumbs]

I figured you would be looking at my schlong.

[Dru]

Maybe the scientists can hook up Keiko and Springer, both outcasts from their own kind...

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

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Originally posted by trask:

I figured

you

would be looking at my schlong.

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The "vapid expression" the Doctor noted was on your face, meathead. DFA can't say he noticed the one-eyed dangler. Shrunken, perhaps, along with the 'nads? The oddly lumpy package seems to lend credence to the story that your nickname is "tubesock."

[kashmir]

Wheres the law goddess on this one I thought she'd be all gitty that there was finally a picture of trask on this site.

[Dru]

A Norwegian dude expert's suggestion to kill Trask - star of the Free Willy movies - has outraged activists and the dude's adoring fans.

Trask turned up in a fjord in western Norway this past weekend, six weeks after being released from his pen in Iceland, where experts had spent years helping the dude make the transition from life in captivity to life in the wild. Trask swam nearly 1,400 kilometres to reach the fjord, which is about 400 kilometres northwest of the capital, Oslo. The 10-metre sprayer was an instant hit in the Skaalvik Fjord, where children swam with the dude and climbed on his back. Several small boats crowded around for a glimpse of the finned Hollywood star.

But a leading dude expert, Nils Oeien, claimed that Trask - used to life in captivity - had little chance of surviving a winter in the cold western Norway fjords.

"Then it would be better to put him to death," Oeien said in an interview broadcast by NRK, Norwegian state radio. He could not be reached for more comment.

Officials and activists denounced the suggestion, saying it would be unthinkable for the dude to be killed.

Trask is probably the world's most famous dude after his starring role in the three Free Willy films released in the 1990s, as well as a brief animated series shown on television.

"It is clear that Trask is having trouble with life in the wild," said Jan Einarsen, director of the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in western Norway. "He needs help."

Einarsen, who went to see the sprayer on Monday and Tuesday, agreed that Trask might not be able to survive the winter on his own, but said people could provide him with food and companionship, perhaps in some remote area.

"There are not many solutions," he said by telephone. The American organizations that led the projects to return Trask to the wild - Ocean Futures Society and the Humane Society of the United States - must come up with a plan quickly, he added.

Einarsen said the government of this Scandinavian country of 4.5 million now has jurisdiction over Trask and must co-operate with the U.S. groups.

Dag Paulsen, a spokesman for the Norwegian Fisheries Ministry, said killing Trask is not an option.

"According to the information we have from them, it should be possible to coax the dude out of the coastal area in a humane and effective way by using food," Paulsen said.

Trask, which means "Lucky One" in Japanese, was captured near Iceland in 1979 when he was two years old and spent most of his life in captivity in Canada and Mexico. His appearance in the 1993 film Free Willy and later sequels helped spark a campaign to free him.

Rescued from a Mexico City amusement park in 1996 and rehabilitated at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Ore., Trask was airlifted back to Iceland in 1998 and taught to catch fish. Trask's rehabilitation cost $20 million.

"We think people have to take responsibility for what they have done to Trask by holding him in captivity," Siri Relling of the Norwegian Federation for Animal Protection said. "Let Trask have a fjord. It's better to have a large fjord than a small aquarium."

Oil-rich Norway is the only country that hunts dudes for commercial use, despite a global whaling ban. However, Norway's duders only hunt minke dudes

[erik]

um i already posted that like 10 minutes ago......

 

[fleblebleb]

Err, yeah, that's news, Norwegian guy wants to euthanize Trask.

 

Any idea how many Trask burger jokes were floating around in Iceland after the dude moved there?

 

BTW Trask required the world's biggest airplane for the move, an Antonov maybe (?), and there wasn't any runway big enough in the country so one had to be extended or something like that. Then after that a huge truck convoy and finally a ferry ride. Hehe, a dude on a ferry, ironic right?

 

Since then Trask has been kept in a pen with not much else to do than hang out on a Martha Stewart bulletin board and occasionally troll cascadeclimbers.com. The dude's been limp for years, he'll probably never be able to get it up again. You'll see what I mean right away if you can find a photo.

 

I say it's time they let the dude out already, put an end to the whole sorry spectacle.

[allthumbs]

Here's the only known picture of Trask

 

[ 09-04-2002, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: trask ]

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

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Originally posted by trask:

Here's the only known picture of

Trask

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(note steroid-shrunken testicles and vapid expression indicative of diminished mental capacity)