Police have arrested a Sea Shepherd activist for attacking a helpless statue of an innocent whaler, badly bending its harpoon in the process.
Wakayama prefecture police arrested a 25-year-old German “gardener” for property damage in connection with an attack on a statue in a Taiji town park.
The statue in question was a 3m tall bronze figure the whaling obsessed township had erected in commemoration of its only significant industry, depicting a fisherman rising out of his boat with harpoon raised to strike a threatening whale.
The man had apparently dangled from its harpoon, bending it in the process. He claims that he “didn’t mean to damage it.”
Local residents spotted him interfering with the statue that afternoon, and police found him nearby. He admitted damaging the statue during questioning, and was promptly arrested.
Police have identified him as being connected to eco-terrorist outfit Sea Shepherd. He had reportedly only been in Japan for 3 days prior to his arrest.
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To be fair... that statue is hideous.
Agreed it would be best to melt it down for esthetic reasons alone
BTW if whaling is that town's only significant industry then we just found somewhere with an economy deader then Detroit's.
that is a REALLY good reason to do so, he should have gotten a better weapon.
Yea. Remove that harpoon and give him machine gun or something. He is fighting with whales for gods sake.
He does have a bit of that Link-just-got-item pose to him. I wouldn't be surprised if 2ch took that photo and edited in all kinds of crazy 'epic' items for him to be holding in that pose.
Welcome to Japan
At least he didn't bend their very own penis statue.
It's 'aesthetic', dude. And really, what does anyone around here know about statues? That one looked like it took painstaking effort to build.
.....Not that whaling is a dignified industry to pride oneself in endorsing, but it's certainly a bold statue. I'd be torked too, if someone bent my statue out of shape because he was so freakishly fat.
And 28:48, they're not going to use Arnold as a model. They just aren't. The statue doesn't have much mass, but it certainly can't be disputed that it at least looks ripped.
Generally the irst etter of a ord isn't the one you should skip out on. Besides too many people really do not know how to spell aesthetic.
And if you think a mold is easy to make, you clearly have no experience regarding metalworking.
@TFish: have you ever made a mould for a bronze statue? Clearly you have, since you know how trivial it is.
TFish
Well why don't you go make us a better bronze statue?
Looks like they need a new one after this.
Did you just correct someone for a simple one letter type like they had used a completely wrong word?
Also, bronze statues are not all the hard to make. You make a mold. You pour in the bronze. You remove the mold. You've got a statue.
Did you just correct someone for a simple one letter typo like they had used a completely wrong word?
Also, bronze statues are not all the hard to make. You make a mold. You pour in the bronze. You remove the mold. You've got a statue.
Detroit is a large city with population more than 5 million, whereas the town in question, Taiji-chou is a very small town of 3225 people. Comparison is meaningless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji,_Wakayama
Yes, but they're killing whales, nature's kitty-cats. When they're just killing the planet with carbon emissions, they get a free pass.
'esthetic'
what the fuck do any of you know about statues anyway
What's so ugly about it? It just looks like an naturalistic ancient Greek bronze statue and they are normally considered beautiful (at least their marble copies since there are only few of the bronze originals left). It looks like an ordinary statue for me. Maybe not up to date in design but otherwise quite normal.
What do you mean "no one ever cared for or took care of it?" You realize bronze statues outdoors turn green with oxides, right? The Statue of Liberty isn't stone or concrete... the outside is copper, doing the same thing.
21:27 Learn better english 'jappo'.
LOL these japs are so cute when they try to be sharp in english.
I know at least that this one is ugly as hell. Looks like no one ever cared for or took care of it until its harpoon was bent ...
They know a hell of a lot more than you, fucko.
It's an island country, surrounded by sea.
You gonna tell them not to fish and tell them they don't know how to balance fish population and endangered animals?
They are not retards you know, if they wipe out a species they will not be able to catch them any more.
Anti-whaling propaganda was started by the beef industry hopping Japan would import more beef BTW.
America has been doing these types of propaganda against foreign industry/products to try to wipe out those business in favor of their own. False rumors against Canola oil(Canada), MSG(Chinese food) etc. People eat up these propaganda like crazy. How about people wake up and think a little bit more huh?
Funny thing is... artifical MSG is a Japanese invention and so is the so call "5th taste" is also coined by the Japanese.
Kind of facepalmed in my psychology class when the prof lectured in confidence that it was only in Chinese food.
Granted that soy sauce has natural occurring MSG like substance... it was the Japanese who invented it. Shitty Chinese food places uses MSG because it is CHEAP. and most cheap ass places don't want to spend money on natural ingredients to make up for it.
This is probably going to come out sounding racist... even though I'm a chinese and we have sterotypes of different chinese groups... but the moment you hear the restaurant owner speaking in Fujian dilect... you can 99% of the time expect the food to be made from F grade ingredients and laced to hell with MSG to make it taste "yummy." Just remember to stick and IV into your arm while you eat so you don't die of thirst.
Ha
It may be hideous, but the bastard committed a crime nonetheless.
A pretty scrawny and weak looking too...is that what passes for a 'strong fisherman' image over there?
Japanese men are definitely not scrawny and weak looking...
lol wut.
Its part of history.
>"Killing whales are bad because they are animals"
>eats ham sandwich
lololol silly anon. Hams aren't animals.
"helpless statue of an innocent whaler"
come on, really? This is an Onion article, right?
Stop fishing outside your territorial waters Japan!
The Chinese should help SS cause they can probably piggyback that Senkaku Islands deal.
You can say that to France as well.
For fucks sake, all I'd need to fix that is a blow torch, ladders, rope and loli.
Problem solved and another created.
A loli would straighten my harpoon
18:54 just made me laugh. XD Thanks dude, I needed that.
I actually love Sea Sherperd. Japan is so full of bullshit that they call their whale hunting in Antarctic "Scientific hunting" because they don't have the balls to say it is for their consumption.
Sea Sherperd must blow up all those japs and teach thema lesson for once.
Fight perceived evil with even purer evil! Down with logic!
Sounds like a regular foreign hooligan fingered as an activist terrorist when they were just fucking around.
They probably defaced Conan too, those Monsters!!
A new low even for this band of brain-dead pirates.
http://youtu.be/60BjkUtqxPE
nuff said
>German
least it wasn't an American or a Brit
That ought stop that darn statue from spearing another whale!
How did he manage to get up there?
Aim the harpoon!!
He must have been sexually molesting it in the rear end pretty hard to bend teh harpoon that far. Has any one looked to see yet if the statue has grown a smile?
I always wondered how the hell you would kill a whale with something as primitive as a harpoon, turns out they use something like explosive tips that explodes inside the body.
That's the modern way. In the past, they let them simply run out of blood and die. That's what the harpoon is for.
In the past, we have a vengeance-minded captain chasing a certain whale for epic man and harpoon vs animal battle in the middle of the stormy ocean on a rickety boat.
Nowadays, the harpoons explode, so not as epic anymore.
That man was a work of fiction created to romanticize and make the bloody business seem epic. You're free to write a modern equivalent to make it seem just as epic.