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07-28-2017, 10:14 AM | #1 |
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WHAT A BUNCH OF DIRT BAGS!
By Joshua Rhett Miller July 28, 2017 | 9:42am | Updated The brutes who allegedly dragged a shark behind a speedboat apparently documented other vile stunts with ocean wildlife — including posing for a picture while pouring beer into the mouth of a grouper. “This is one of the evil POS that dragged the shark,” one post on Facebook read. “His name is Bo Benac. His mother is a Manatee County commissioner. Look what he and his friend are doing to this beautiful grouper who was probably 50 years old. #notfunny” The post identified the other men seen in the disturbing video as Nicholas Burns Easterling and Michael Wenzel, who was investigated in 2015 by state and federal officials after posting pictures of him gripping pelicans and a gull. It’s unclear if the other men were part of that investigation, which was closed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service last January, the Miami Herald reported. More than 5,300 people have signed an online petition demanding that the men be punished for the “sociopathic behavior” they willingly recorded and shared. “This sociopathic behavior demands attention and prevention,” the petition reads. “Many feel that this act of violence is in fact a criminal act … We also demand that everyone in this video has their fishing license revoked permanently.” Another post on Wenzel’s Instagram page purportedly showed him shooting a gun at a tarpon in Siesta Key, a video that racked up more than 5,400 views, according to the Miami Herald. Wenzel’s profile was no longer active as of Friday. Neither Wenzel’s father nor Benac’s mother replied to requests for comment, the Miami Herald reports. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, meanwhile, declined to confirm the men’s identities in accordance with prior policy, spokesman Rob Klepper told the newspaper. The video — which was posted to Instagram on Tuesday after they emailed it to Capt. Mark Quartiano, a popular local shark hunter — quickly went viral, garnering comments demanding that the men be prosecuted and lose their fishing licenses. “This is awful to see and they are laughing at what they’re doing to the shark,” one comment read. “Who does this?” another comment read. “Sick f—s.”
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messed up
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07-28-2017, 11:39 AM | #3 |
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07-28-2017, 12:13 PM | #4 |
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Is gaffing and clubbing fish any more humane? Or ripping their gills out? Or eating their pumping hearts in a manly sort of way?
Or hooking them through the nose to use as bait as we pull them around through the water at the end of our fishing line? Or throwing them alive into a gunny sack or kill bag to die slowly of asphyxiation? Just curious. /stones, glass houses
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Another ho-hum day in Paradise Last edited by Mr. NiceGuy; 07-28-2017 at 12:29 PM. |
07-28-2017, 12:19 PM | #5 |
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Maybe the grouper asked for a beer. Who knows. I know I would
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07-28-2017, 12:23 PM | #6 | |
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However the way their dragging the shark seems very unsportsman like and unethical, not the way a true fisherman/hunter would harvest meat. It makes me think they weren't harvesting that shark they were fishing for some attention on social media.
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Bait is like rats in the subway.... who cares what you do with them.... sharks, and bigger species... well those hold a little more value.... just a little, but just enough to say that something is not right here....
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07-28-2017, 12:36 PM | #8 |
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See? A voice of reason.
For me, it would depend on the kind of beer. ... and I'm gnawing on a cold barbecued chicken thigh as we speak, without too much remorse.
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Another ho-hum day in Paradise Last edited by Mr. NiceGuy; 07-28-2017 at 12:43 PM. |
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You must be friends with those Florida guys
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07-28-2017, 12:45 PM | #10 |
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Nah. I'd be happy to piss on them for my own amusement. But I'm a niceguy, so I probably wouldn't.
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This is like asking if shooting and eating a deer is any worse than purposely wounding one, cutting out it's eyeballs and filming it running into trees just for your amusement.
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07-28-2017, 01:08 PM | #12 |
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Well said.
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07-28-2017, 04:53 PM | #15 | |
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If your talking about me the mako shark was dead before I ate the heart.
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Don't tell him, but jorluivil is too. He's a butt-catcher extraordinaire! (we should print that on t-shirts & coffee mugs) I'm as guilty of killing fish as anyone. I accept my destiny. I'm just asking questions, and thinking out loud about moral equivalencies for the Florida bros who I said I'd be happy to piss on for my own amusement. I just want to be careful about my own karma for the destruction of living creatures that end up on my dinner plate. ---- makobob summed it up nicely: Quote:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...ss-extinction/ Look at the last sentence. Food for thought. 65 million years ago the dinosaurs reigned supreme and ate everything including themselves. Then they pulled the short stick of Nature's Lottery and became compressed into oil & gas to power our pickup trucks and polymers to make kayak plastic. Alas, sh*t happens. Species evolve. Nature always wins. Humanity is probably just another step in this process. Some day we will also be recorded for history in layers of rock, carbonized peat and sediment.
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Another ho-hum day in Paradise Last edited by Mr. NiceGuy; 07-29-2017 at 08:05 AM. |
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07-28-2017, 07:07 PM | #17 |
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Look at the ark on this baby....
It was a floater in SD bay...its going in the wash...it is are duty as responsible fishermen to show the sea respect in all areas.
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07-29-2017, 01:33 AM | #18 |
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It's all about respect and class. These douche bags seem to have neither. There's nothing more natural than killing an animal to eat it. You don't need to be an asshole and disrespect the creature in the process. It's not really rocket science. Some people are just low class dirtbags. Too bad these losers often give us all a bad name.
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07-29-2017, 11:02 AM | #19 |
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Goliath grouper, protected in Florida
The fish looks to be a goliath grouper, protected in Florida, like our black sea bass is protected in California.
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