# Parking fines for whale rescuers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242 "2006-01-23T13:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/41 "2006-01-24T00:53:00Z")
I never even knew they trained whales as rescuers in London let alone that they were capable of driving automobiles. Marc ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/42 "2006-01-24T01:24:31Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > _Save The Whales_… in Ziploc sandwich baggies. No, for whale, you’re going to want the [new Ziploc Big Bags](http://ziploc.com/big-bags/) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/43 "2006-01-24T01:44:54Z")
Do they make Whale size Ziplocs? I couldn’t find anything above walrus in that link. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/44 "2006-01-24T02:58:04Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Do they make Whale size Ziplocs? I couldn’t find anything above walrus in that link. That’s why they make chain-saws, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/45 "2006-01-24T03:22:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Whale…the other, other white meat. It’s actually a very dark red, and has approximately the same taste, smell, tenderness and texture as the sole of a dead tramp’s boot. It’s only a delicacy in some countries because it’s expensive: if you _made_ people eat it, they’d riot in the streets. Sadly, “Save The Whales: They Taste Like Shit Anyway” makes a rotten bumper-sticker. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/46 "2006-01-24T04:23:33Z")
“Save the whales: Less gamey than crack-whores” I see a future in marketing for myself, I do. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/47 "2006-01-24T06:11:28Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > “Save the whales: Less gamey than crack-whores” > > I see a future in marketing for myself, I do. Thar she blows! ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/48 "2006-01-24T09:22:46Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > It’s actually a very dark red, and has approximately the same taste, smell, tenderness and texture as the sole of a dead tramp’s boot. It’s only a delicacy in some countries because it’s expensive: if you _made_ people eat it, they’d riot in the streets. Sadly, “Save The Whales: They Taste Like Shit Anyway” makes a rotten bumper-sticker. And whales appear to be as dumb as bricks. Why Oh Why does New Zealand make whale saving a national pastime? If the fuckers are daft enough to think that living on a beach is a good idea, then good luck to them. While watching Japanese ships chop them up is not pleasant, watching loads of people try to refloat the buggers again and again and again seems rather futile. I eat cows and sheep and pigs, I don’t want to watch Japanese harpoon them but I also don’t want to watch the cows, pigs and sheep being killed. I will eat them though. Whales have whole oceans to escape that fate. Cows we should pity. They can’t escape. I am a nasty hypocite. I love animals but I think they taste good.Whales I have no symapthy for. They have HUGE brains yet beach themselves often in places where no one wants to eat them and everyone wants to save them. Whales are dumbarses! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/49 "2006-01-24T09:49:58Z")
> [@zelie zelerton](#): > > Really? why not? Shouldn’t we have a dedicated charity? After all we have the Norwich and Norfolk Mountain Rescue 😉 Heh. They also have the Acle Mountain Rescue, and let me tell you, Norwich is the Himalayas compared to the land around Acle. 😃 (It’s a small town a short bus ride east of Norwich, for those who need to know.) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/50 "2006-01-24T09:52:29Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > It’s a small town a short bus ride east of Norwich, for those who need to know. Oddly enough, you can get a bus _to_ Acle; you just can’t leave, ever. ---
**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/51 "2006-01-24T11:26:47Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Oddly enough, you can get a bus _to_ Acle; you just can’t leave, ever. Good idea for a Stephen King book. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/52 "2006-01-24T11:47:53Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > And whales appear to be as dumb as bricks. Why Oh Why does New Zealand make whale saving a national pastime? If the fuckers are daft enough to think that living on a beach is a good idea, then good luck to them. > [@](#): > > I am a nasty hypocite. I love animals but I think they taste good. Whales I have no symapthy for. They have HUGE brains yet beach themselves often in places where no one wants to eat them and everyone wants to save them. **calm kiwi** , if I weren’t spoken for I would ask for your hand in marriage: you’re about the first Kiwi I’ve talked to who appears to have a sane perspective on this: how many sheep and cows do you see dashing into the surf bleating and mooing, “I can swim! I can swim!”? None, because whales are dumb fucks. You emerge from your element, you asphyxiate. End of story. Darwin would be proud. Hopefully the thick whales are being culled out by natural selection, and their descendants may thus have something to offer us other than tapes of “The Song Of The Humpback Whale” for elderly hippies. Until then, they’re just floating, less delicious cows. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/53 "2006-01-24T13:53:06Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > **calm kiwi** , if I weren’t spoken for I would ask for your hand in marriage: you’re about the first Kiwi I’ve talked to who appears to have a sane perspective on this: how many sheep and cows do you see dashing into the surf bleating and mooing, “I can swim! I can swim!”? None, because whales are dumb fucks. **You emerge from your element, you asphyxiate**. End of story. Darwin would be proud. > …snip… _my bolding_ Just checking: you do know Whales are Oxygen breathers, not water breathers? Jim ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/54 "2006-01-24T13:56:17Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > _my bolding_ > Just checking: you do know Whales are Oxygen breathers, not water breathers? > > Jim They still asphyxiate. Too heavy to support their bodyweight out of water, they squash themselves to death. Can’t move their muscles freely enough to breathe. While we’re picking nits, _fish_ are oxygen breathers too… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/55 "2006-01-24T13:59:35Z")
> [@Vetch](#): > > Good idea for a Stephen King book. It’s a little known fact\* that the Eagles’ song _Hotel California_ was actually written about Acle; they just changed the name to make it scan. \*[sup]By which I mean, it’s not even remotely true[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/56 "2006-01-24T14:26:58Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > They still asphyxiate. Too heavy to support their bodyweight out of water, they squash themselves to death. Can’t move their muscles freely enough to breathe. > > While we’re picking nits, _fish_ are oxygen breathers too… 😛 You are of course correct. I meant Air vs Water breathers. :smack: Jim ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/57 "2006-01-24T14:27:39Z")
I sincerely hope that all of this “Kill the dumbshit whales” rhetoric is one big whoosh. Otherwise, the lowbrow shortsighted pro-extinction-masturbation y’all are displaying is pretty fucking disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/58 "2006-01-24T14:45:16Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I sincerely hope that all of this “Kill the dumbshit whales” rhetoric is one big whoosh. Otherwise, the lowbrow shortsighted pro-extinction-masturbation y’all are displaying is pretty fucking disgusting. It is, isn’t it? Oh well…fuck the whales. If they’re dumb enough to find their way onto a beach, kill 'em and dispose of them. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/59 "2006-01-24T14:57:17Z")
Maybe Lake Havasu will call and inquire as to the whale’s availability? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242/60 "2006-01-24T15:25:12Z")
Maybe this time they’ll request a picture before they send the check. You know…to make sure they are getting the right whale! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-fines-for-whale-rescuers/341242.md?page=2)