it's totally fucked up. they deserve to be shot.

i am so angry about this

This was sickening.

I was hoping they'd go to jail for 2-3 years, but then saw that was the maximum penalty. Weak.

RSPCA (as you can imagine) are calling for a max sentence. I'd like to see them serve 12 months.

A good clubbing of these bogans wouldn't go astray.

Why is there so much outrage? Because they're cute?

And seals are such sporting targets for shooters, aren't they?!

because they are endangered

They really need to overhaul environment protection laws, cunts can poach a million bucks worth of abalone and get away with a 20K fine.....You can dump petro chemicals in a creek and get off with a warning.....its bullshit

*because they are endangered

*because its a marine national park (you cant even fish with a rod)

*because shooting a rifle towards the coast could have killed a kid

yep complete bullshit....

However, I'm sure their $25k fine will just be a splash in the pool of money they earn from the fishing....

Killing off a few of these seals for these fuckwits is like giving poison pellets to the rabbits, the seals are vermin in their eyes.

It truely is sickening.

And before someone jumps on the bangwagon, no I also dont like the idea of rabbits being killed off.

These seals are not cute. It is as much for the public's protection as the seals that there is an exclusion zone on the island. Also lots of sharks trying to eat them around that area.

He should be jailed for having firearms in a National Park as well.

Turn him over to the Feds, I reckon.

those fucking fish stealing fur seals had it coming to em. How dare they cut into the livelyhood of us humans. It's not like WE can go and seek out another way of making a crust?

Why is there so much outrage? Because they're cute?

What? 2 dudes with shotguns lining up a crowd of endangered sleeping animals and mass murdering them in a protected marine area doesn't bother you at all?

and yes, they're cute.

why is anyone surprised? flouting everything increased environmental awareness has taught us in the past forty years is the ultimate statement in being a boneheaded neanderthal. it's also likely lionised by large sections of society for whom trashing environmental reforms is a form of iconoclastic heroism against those whingeing lefties who just want to spoil the fun of popping a few caps in an endangered species' arse.

this is where we are now. relaxed and comfortable in our unwillingness to make any frickin' effort to protect other species and the rest of the planet.

Seriously these guys should get 5 year sentences and a complete loss of their fishing/boating and firearms permits

Different to pellets for rabbits. They are a pest. These are protected, endangered, native animals.

Break his kneecaps, put him in a tight wetsuit and dump him on a beach somewhere near a trigger-happy bogan stronghold. See how he likes it....

Bogans wont do crap like that if they know they will get put in the slammer and ass fucked for a few years. Thats why the laws and penalties for such things need a drastic overhaul

speechless.

i'm going to train some seals to commit human genocide. that'll teach 'em.

But what if they end up attacking good humans? imagine Diane Fossey was killed by an unexpected backhander from an ape? where would we be then Worksafe?

Basically I think you should rethink your next move before armies of seals overtake the promontory

seriously these morons should serve at least 10 years max.
They are cowards, if their faces get out in the public they will regret it big time.

seals killed by fishermen in killing spree- pretty bad

millions of people displaced and thousands murdered and raped in darfur for over three years- a travesty

terrible, but lets have some perspective

Plenty more non-baggara's where they came from.. the catholic church will see to that.

you can't compare the wrongness of seal slaughtering with murder and rape. that's a silly argument. both are obviously bad but very bloody different.

I was so angry about this I nearly cried. I couldn't even speak.

Burn in hell, you pathetic, dickless, worthless cunts.

Burn. In. Hell.

What amazes me is the amount of people who will rage on about the terror of this incident.. then happily troop down to coles and grab a slice of meat for dinner.. that's where perspective is really needed.

Don't play that bullshit card, fastcanoe. There's a big fucking difference between buying a piece of meat for a meal and committing mass murder for your own amusement.

Yes fastcanoe; an eminent vego/philosopher (can't remember his name, a Peter Singer type) once said that if you can visit a slaughterhouse and be 'okay' with what's going down, then by all means continue to eat meat.

It's where people make divisions in their definition of 'horror' in the animal slaughter business that things get iffy.

However, as much as we all know meat is murder yadda yadda, there is a slight difference between animals bred to eat going systematically through the food production line and just opening fire on a colony of seals. Same as people would be up in arms if these two blokes had gone into a herd of herefords and pumped them full of lead. Killing to eat vs. killing to kill, etc.

Does anyone know what the 'hunters' motives were Paul's oldboy? it seems presumptuous to commit them to the joyrider's category

There's a big fucking difference between buying a piece of meat for a meal and committing mass murder for your own amusement

Well considering its quite easy to live without meat, I'd happily argue that the mass killing occuring each day is purely for peoples taste amusement... but thats a whole other thread.

Clem: I'd be interested to know just how many people have actually wandered through a slaughterhouse and seen the process first hand. Killing to eat vs. killing to kill.. I just don't see a difference here, it tends to lead down the path of an arguement into speciesism.

I am a Speciesist

What kind of moron compares the problems in darfur to the murdering of threatened species in Wilsons prom? They are in no way comparable..."lets have some perspective" you say, why not start by using reasonable comparisons rather than comparing bogans killing seals in a national park, to a complicated internal conflict in North Africa that Australia has no way of doing anything about. You are a complete idiot

I'd have much less of a problem with someone killing a single seal to eat it than what happened here.

But I think fastcanoe makes a valid point.

Oh man, the last thing this thread needs is some preachy fucking veggos telling us what 'hypocrites' we are.

Why?

Nothing tastes better than when you've hunted and killed it yerself.

Gimme your seal of approval, let's club it to death!

I give that joke the flipper..