So what's the best khukuri to use against sea monsters?

[not2sharp]

Like this one:

read more here:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4746503/detail.html

n2s

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I am so glad you posted a link to the story. When I first looked at just the picture, I thought Ted Kennedy fell in the water again, and worried that he took someone else with him.

 

[Green Ice]

Green chiclet for you Esav. Great comment but the critter wasn't holding a Scotch bottle.

Ice

 

[DannyinJapan]

" If ya wanna catch a shark, ya gotta wear a white t-shirt"

 

[Svashtar]

I am so glad you posted a link to the story. When I first looked at just the picture, I thought Ted Kennedy fell in the water again, and worried that he took someone else with him.

You got rep points there Esav! He DOES look like our gun-grabbing senior senator lush from the PRM doesn't he? Except Teddy's a little fatter than that...

 

[Nasty]

I've seen Teddy in person...

He's not that cute.

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[depusm12]

The biggest heavyiest one one can use maybe a 30 inch AK, or 30 in Sirupita.
Even those might not be big enough, maybe we need to get the kami's to design a seamonster khukuri.


James

 

[jurassicnarc44]

Now that you mention it, it does look like Sen.....Oh, never mind....

 

[Kismet]

I'll catch some grief for this...but it saddens me to see such a magnificent creature captured and killed for some silly human competition. How proud its killers are!

How long had it lived? How many miles had it travelled in the course of its life? How far back had its ancestors stretched to evolve to become such a perfect predator for its environment?

I know...a fish...a shark at that, but....

 

[not2sharp]

it saddens me to see such a magnificent creature captured and killed for some silly human competition. How proud its killers are!

I would argue just the opposite. One of the reasons this creature was allowed to live and prosper for as long as he did is because he has value for the people who participate in these competitions. Without sports fishing, scuba divers, and others who enjoy visiting the marine environment, and the commercial value it provides, the breeding habitats for these animals may have been eliminated long ago.

BTW: it does resemble Ted - especially the dumb grin.

n2s

 

[Esav Benyamin]

The breeding habitats for these animals is the ocean. I hope we're not eliminating that any time soon!

As I understand it, most shark populations in trouble aren't suffering as much from environmental degradation as by deliberate overfishing, probably more from deliberate elimination as "man-eaters" than sport-fishing.

 

[philthygeezer]

it saddens me to see such a magnificent creature captured and killed for some silly human competition. How proud its killers are!

I would argue just the opposite. One of the reasons this creature was allowed to live and prosper for as long as he did is because he has value for the people who participate in these competitions. Without sports fishing, scuba divers, and others who enjoy visiting the marine environment, and the commercial value it provides, the breeding habitats for these animals may have been eliminated long ago.

BTW: it does resemble Ted - especially the dumb grin.

n2s

Agreed. One only has to look at Ducks Unlimited and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to see that hunters and sportsmen are sometimes the only defendants left for some animals. It seems counterintuitive but there it is.

 

[DannyinJapan]

Its not so counterintuitive.
ITs just money.
Demand versus supply.

If nobody is willing to pay for the animals to be cared for, then no one is going to care for them.
Africa is the classic example.
Before the ivory ban, there was a well-funded and well organized game protection system there. Since the ban, no hunters will go and spend money for trophies they cant bring home.
No license fees - no warden salaries - no elephant protection
The ivory ban people did more to wipe out the elephants than they will ever know.