PETA Wants To Buy SeaWorld And Free Shamu

[tannybogus]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to buy a SeaWorld park, possibly the one in San Diego, free the animals inside and replace them with virtual reality exhibits, it was reported today.

Officials with the animal rights group say they have an anonymous donor willing to shell out big money to purchase at least one of SeaWorld's three parks, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

http://www.cbs8.com/stories/story.138302.html

Another Onion story foiled.

[my2sense]

1. OK then

:popcorn:

[MercutioATC]

2. Ummm...Shamu would last about 10 minutes in the wild.

:wtf:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Shamu's new name in the wild:

"Lunch."

[MercutioATC]

7. He'd be the "chess club geek" of the marine world.

The other orcas would tease him mercilessly...

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Sadly, this is true

[dbonds]

3. Well, they should know there is more than one Shamu

Behind the scenes they all have different names, Shamu is the stage name.

[Growler]

5. Didn't know SeaWorld was for sale!

What happens when the freed animals refuse to acclimate to the wild? Do they get euthanized like that whale calf??

[ben_meyers]

8. Sea World is owned by Budweiser and In-bev has said

that they will be divesting the parks.

[flamingdem]

15. Have they divested themselves of the most popular Cuban beer yet? nt

[ben_meyers]

6. If they do buy the park, they might as well just shut it down,

How many patrons are going to pay to see videos of fish? Once again the brains at peta have frozen up.

[2Design]

9. peta people are as wacky as rw n/t

[Clovis Sangrail]

10. not quite accurate in regards to "freeing" all the animals

from tfa:

The animals would be placed in sanctuaries with hopes of returning them to their natural habitats some day

[Solly Mack]

11. Thee are so many bad Free Shamu sex jokes out there that I laughed

when I saw this thread.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

12. PETA is sniffing paint again

That much money could feed a lot of hungry people and house a lot of homeless families.

But a fucking whale is so much more important than those suffering people. :sarcasm:

What swine PETA are.

[Bob Dobbs]

17. Daily PETA bashing thread.

So carnivores can reinforce their willful ignorance of animal suffering and how "crazy" it is to have compassion for other species on this planet.

[flamingdem]

13. They'll rename it to "Shamu on you" nt

[cobalt1999]

14. No way could that be a money making venture.

Who is going to pack up the kids to watch virtual reality TV in Florida?

They'll be out of business in a month, however, they are not serious. It's just another stunt to make the news & suck a little more money out of their donors.

If they ever did spend that much money just to rehabilitate the animals for a successful release, I might have to change my mind on their motives. That would be incredibly expensive.