Weird: Dolphin been terrorising coast for weeks

[Morg]

Dolphin 'like mad dog'

Brest, France - For several weeks, an enraged dolphin has been terrorising the French Atlantic coast, attacking boats and knocking fishermen into the sea, French media reported on Wednesday.

"He's like a mad dog," complained Hneri Le Lay, president of the association of fishermen and yachtsmen of the port of Brezellec, in Brittany.

"He has caused at least €1 500 damage in the past few weeks."

The dolphin, who has been named Jean Floch, has destroyed rowboats, overturned open boats, flooded engines and twisted mooring lines.

Worse, two fishermen were knocked into the sea after the dolphin overturned their boat.

"I don't want to see any widows or orphans," Le Lay warned. "This could end badly."

Jean Floch has been a popular and familiar sight along the coast of Brittany since 2002. But experts say that he must have been excluded from his group recently to have turned so violent.

According to Sami Hassani, of the oceanapolis department of sea mammals, "because of their dominant personalities and their sexual maturity, males could become dangerous".

In June, after several incidents involving Jean Floch and several bathers and pleasure boat sailors, police established a crisis cell with local politicians and scientists.

The unit recommended to local mayors to ban swimming in areas where the dolphin was known to appear.

However, the dolphin has become a popular tourist attraction, luring divers and swimmers despite the ban.

Le Lay has a solution to the problem. "We put mad animals to sleep," he said.

Then, perhaps remembering that the dolphin is a protected species, he added: "I like dolphins, but this one should be removed or locked up very quickly."

However, researchers will soon be trying a more humane solution, an acoustic repellent that will also be used on boats fishing for tuna. - Sapa-dpa

first it's those coons now the dolphins?

 

[Snipershot]

wtf, mate? rabbid dolphins?!?!?!?

 

[enterthemadness]

That dolphin needs a swift roundhouse kick to the head. That will straighten it the **** out. or just anger it even more.

 

[DOG LIPS]

first it's those coons now the dolphins?

That's racist!

Dolphin 'like mad dog'

That too!

 

[Iceman]

The dolphin, who has been named Jean Floch,

Who gets to name all these dolphins? I want to do it.

 

[cryptic name]

it's like orca...only with an animal not nearly as threatening

 

[Addendum]

Well, I guess Kim Jong Il wasn't as insane as we thought, though he hit the wrong body of water

 

[Lurk]

What is with all these animals going psycho lately?!? First squirrels , then a pet cat, then raccoons, now dolphins??

I'm skairt

 

[AndThePickles]

Haha that article gave me a good chuckle. Watch out, he's coming to an ocean NEAR YOU!

 

[terry78]

The animals are starting to figure it out. They're taking over.

 

[AndThePickles]

Yup. Wasn't there a Simpsons episode where dolphins took over the world? Everyone laughs at such things, but now it's really happening

 

[Ronny Shade]

 

[Duende Verde]

 

[Ronny Shade]

very nice. I like the teeth.

 

[SLVRSR4]

Yup. Wasn't there a Simpsons episode where dolphins took over the world? Everyone laughs at such things, but now it's really happening

Bart shot a dolphin with a slingshot in his blowhole with a cork

 

[taskmaster]

Bart shot a dolphin with a slingshot in his blowhole with a cork

Lucy, this looks like a job for the street sharks.

 

[Nathan]

Yup. Wasn't there a Simpsons episode where dolphins took over the world? Everyone laughs at such things, but now it's really happening

 

[InsaneMembrane]

LOL, only the French could be terrorized by a Dolphin







kidding...

 

[InsaneMembrane]

Double Post...

 

[Lurk]

Now when fishermen wash ashore with holes in the chest we'll know what happened!

 

[Nathan]

 

[Morg]

heh Nathan, a fitting gif

 

[jaguarr]

Dolphins are smart. It probably senses that these people are French, thus the anger.

jag

 

[Noon]

I bet it was a shark, disguised as a dolphin, trying to slur their good name!

 

[Caliber]

I bet it was a shark, disguised as a dolphin, trying to slur their good name!

Could be, since sharks always get a bad repation.