Sea Shepherd Fires Acid Rockets at Japanese, Injures Three

"one of these days soon there should be a large scale attack"

from which side, i wonder

quit being an asshole!

u can see the bald guy holding the launcher is grinning and getting a kick out of it, hes enjoying what hes doing. injuring ppl, its okay that netgeo shows the crabbing industry... but how about the negative effects of all that crabbing, theres gotta be a negative effect somewhere...

man can only harm nature and disrupt its balance. its a double standard but hey whatever you tell yourself to get yourself through the night right?

That's what you gain for being noble and righteous; Japanese people nowdays beleive in negotiation and peace and right now that shit just doesn't work. Why do they attact Japanese ships? because they are FAGGOTS. If they were attaking ships from France or GB a counter attack would happen within SECONDS and would be as twice as hard (ie: using real bullets against that "ECO"-nazis).

Somebody should pwn these enviro-terrorists.
Yeah, fire some acid rockets at them.

And Japan should do something... this is the same as those feminazis. Them bastards can't whine and bitch at home, so the decide to pick on someone else.

If they were attacking ships from Franch, the frenchies would surrender.

It's because they can get diplomatic safety from being a foreigner and sympathy for being 'eco-idiots'. It's like the reporters who got captured IN North Korea. They purposely knew what they were doing was not condoned and even opposed by on both sides of the North Korean border.

These people are busy wasting money on ships instead of saving their fellow man from starvation and debt. IE Acceptable Terrorism...

They should just have a real war with real weapons. The whalers know the risks and the shepherd people know the risks, neither parties have any innocent people so they should just fight for real. Theyre in international waters so they can do whatever they want. Its clear Japan doesnt fully support the whaling industry and just puts up with it as much as they can, so military action would never happen, they dont want to do anything that might get Australia involved anyways.

｢The video taken by Sea Shepherd provides irrefutable evidence that the three Japanese crewmembers were overcome with pepper spray that they had sprayed into the wind in their attempt to fire the chemical irritant at Sea Shepherd crew in an inflatable boat｣

throwing acid vs pepper spray oh come on 12:09.

lets see us try this then. spray pepper on me and i pour acid to you.

hey, are they just like Celestial Being???? I hope they got some Innovators onboard

I wonder if they checked if the source of the acid was environmentaly friendly

Sea Shepherd are a bunch of self-righteous douches.

I do not condone what either side is doing (but the Sea Shepherd should be considered pirates and be sunk) but the media is still pushing you buttons to get you going.

It is not pepper spray vs "ACID"... Oh bad stuff. It is pepper spray vs Butyric acid. For those of you that can't or are to dumb to look up what it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyric_acid = Butyric acid (from Greek βούτυρος = butter), also known under the systematic name butanoic acid, is a carboxylic acid with the structural formula CH3CH2CH2-COOH. Salts and esters of butyric acid are known as butyrates or butanoates. Butyric acid is found in rancid butter, parmesan cheese, vomit, and body odor and has an unpleasant smell and acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste (similar to ether). It can be detected by mammals with good scent detection abilities (such as dogs) at 10 ppb, whereas humans can detect it in concentrations above 10 ppm.

And it is also used as fishing bait so when op said "Wikipedia describes the acid as “corrosive to skin and mucous membranes, and hazardous to marine life.”" that is wrong to.

Uses

Butyric acid is used in the preparation of various butanoate esters. Low-molecular-weight esters of butyric acid, such as methyl butanoate, have mostly pleasant aromas or tastes. As a consequence, they find use as food and perfume additives.

It is also used as a non-lethal weapon by anti-whaling activists; "Sea Shepherd responded by throwing bottles filled with toxic and foul-smelling butyric acid on the Japanese" . [4]

Due to the powerful odor it has also been used as a successful fishing bait additive.

have fun getting worked up over nothing

I don't think that referring to Wiki as a be all end all reference source is a good idea. Kind of like how there is a warning on given on GPS and the like to double check with real maps.

http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/n-butyric_acid.htm
Potential Health Effects
Eye: Causes eye burns.
Skin: Harmful if absorbed through the skin. Causes skin burns.
Ingestion: May cause severe and permanent damage to the digestive tract. Causes gastrointestinal tract burns. May be harmful if swallowed.
Inhalation: May cause severe irritation of the upper respiratory tract with pain, burns, and inflammation. Causes chemical burns to the respiratory tract.
Chronic: No information found.

http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics1334.htm
The substance is harmful to aquatic organisms.

japan : gundams and world-renowned anime
australia : kangaroos and koalas

japan wins.

its kinda stupid to fight over whales. just get one and clone those big fishies.

genetics ftw.

hmmm where is their batman boat?

20:01

Whales ain't fishes dude.... They're mammals like you and me.... They're also intelligent sentient beings.... Which hunting them and eating them or turning them to soap is as disgusting as shit....

But still, ACID? That's downright bad!

You can't just clone whales. It will take a whale to give birth to another whale, as we still can't grow things "in a jar".

20:26

>They're mammals like you and me.... They're also intelligent sentient beings.... Which hunting them and eating them or turning them to soap is as disgusting as shit....

Yeah, so its disgusting to eat pig meat, cow meat, goat meat, sheep meat, and deer meet because they're intelligent sentient beings. Seriously, QFT.

Actually we can grow things in jars.

Organs, skin, etc.

Heard of 'test tube babies'?

They don't need to put the fertilized egg within a female, they can grow the baby outwith of one.

Problem is people think it's morally incorrect so they don't do this.

I hope to see the day when the JASDF launches fighter jet escorts and bomb the hell out of them SS.

That's right! Japan needs to stop whining and send the JSDF after their asses!

Japan needs to stop killing defenseless whales.
And, for that matter, stop catching crabs where they shouldn't.

give the whales some weapons, guys>>

Black Lagoon: "We're just a delivery company."
Black Cat: "I've come to deliver some bad news."

Hey -- it works for me!

Indeed, just think of all the rapes and beheadings the Sea Shepherd must have committed. How many ships have they bombed and hit with rockets by now? Tens? Hundreds?

Anyways, just do you guys know, lemon juice is more corrosive than this butyric acid. I'm assuming the "mild irritation" was that the sailors had an itch on their face at the moment or their nose got tired from crinkling up at the smell.

even without the beheading and stuff it's still a terrorist act

american revolution was act of terrorism too ,

It was not of terrorism. An act of terrorism is when a small percentage of people commit to a thought or ideal to cause feelings of stress, fear, worry, or insecurity through their actions. A revolution is when a country (regardless if the nation has recently receded from a larger one) wishes to obtain its own sovereignty. The latter being decided by the leaders of the nation regardless of prestige, title, or method of obtaining title. Sea Shepherd has no land to stake claim, or official orders from their own respecting nations, so it would clearly be terrorism.

I don't think they were interested in protecting other life forms in the first place. They're nothing but a bunch of thugs.

Think about it, how is it protecting other life forms when they're using acid that can even harm marine life? Not to mention the acid is encased in glass that shatters on contact, where do you think those broken shards of glass disappear to? Glass are not biodegradable either.

The acid isn't harmful to marine life. It's actually used in fishing bait because of it's strong smell.

Are you just trying to make any possible pathetic excuse to defend these ecoterrorists? If's not harmful, why don't you try concocting a bucketful and completely coating your entire body with this butyric acid?

Somehow you're able to know that it's not harmful to marine life, are you able to speak to these creatures to find out directly what's harmful to them or not?

Seriously, stop trying to make up an excuse for these ecoterrorists, they're hypocrites and you should learn to face that reality. If you seriously think the acid's not harmful, go and post a youtube video of yourself making this acid all the way to the point where you douse your entire body, head, face, eyes, torso, arms, genitals, everything in this butyric acid. If I don't see you screaming in pain for 1 hour while you're completely coated, then I'll consider about believing your imaginary claim.

Oh BTW, the Sea Shepherds are using large quantities of this stuff, in comparison to the small dose for fishing. Learn the difference.

2 wrongs dont make a right

Why do I feel that submerging one's self in butyric acid would be like submerging one's self in their own urine?

Erm.. I don't believe a little glass of butyric accid can harm any marine life in the ocean(unless it actually hits the fish/mamal) because it would get "mixed out" in all the sea water. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Bathing/submerging yourself in butryic accid is a complete other thing..
Also, I believe the clothing the fishermen are wearing protects most of their body against the butryic accid (their clothes ARE waterproof, aren't they?), although it could come in contact with their face and hands.

And to have it said, I'm nether on the fishermen or on Sea Shepard's "side". I do believe fishing whale where they aren't allowed to is a bad thing (and isn't it illegal?). And that the Japanese fishermen/companies should limit their "whalefishing". And I think it's good that someone is willing to fight for this. Although, I do not like all the methods being used.