Slimy, de-balled overpaid bureaucrats, that is, not Orcas:
‘Harbourmaster stood down over orca rescue’
and, entirely unrelated, one of Wabbit’s favourite places in his early yoof:
‘The sale of the world’s largest cattle station – Anna Creek in the far north of South Australia – has settled today after eight months of negotiations.
…Anna Creek and the associated outstation, The Peake, cover 23,677 sq km of pastoral land, which will double the size of Williams Cattle Company’s holdings to some 45,000 sq km. Together, they have a capacity for 35,000 cattle…’
Stunningly beautiful – but very unforgiving – country.
“…the council is checking whether any regulations were breached or operational procedures not followed during the rescue.”
He should just tell them to FO!!!!!!
Damn right he should. I remember years ago, well offshore from Whangaroa harbour (in a very small open boat) I found a dolphin stuck in a car tyre. It was in a very distressed state .
DOC said they couldn’t get there until the next day as they were busy, so I ended up cutting it free from the tyre on my own. Not an easy job, to put it mildly.
Not more than twenty minutes later the bastards roared past in their flash taxpayer-funded boat!
I hate the leeches with a passion.
‘A Coromandel harbourmaster has been stood down from some duties after helping to free an entangled orca using a council boat.
The action was taken using a Waikato Regional Council vessel after the Department of Conservation failed to send a rescue team to free the struggling whale, said Dr Ingrid Visser of the Orca Research Trust.
The breeding female was trapped by a cray pot line for 16 hours before locals acted, Visser said.
…But DOC spokesman Steve Brightwell said while staff were notified on Wednesday at 9am, they were busy and planned to go out later in the day.
When staff were free by mid-afternoon, conditions were unsafe. He said staff intended to check on the orca at 9am on Thursday, but it had already been freed.
The department does not have any standard period for when it must respond, he said.
Visser called DOC’s inaction “inexcusable”…’
“busy” were they..busy with what? What was more urgent than rescuing the orca? Enquiring taxpayer minds would like to fucking know.
And that is the best question to ask-busy doing what? And keep asking it until a satisfactory answer is given.
Busy at the pub, mate! Now will you push the peanuts down the bar….
Clip-board Hitlers crushing common sense. The harbour-master clearly has brains, initiative and perception, we can’t have those can we? If he was a beareded clapped-out old Hippie his actions would have been lauded.
Exactly.
I’m guessing that DOC doesn’t give a toss unless Orcas are an endangered species. Animal welfare? pffft, pass it along to the SPCA. The harbour-master is my kind of guy; thinks on his feet and gets on with the job. And yes, we need to know why they were too busy. Stick with it reporters, if there are any genuine ones left, which I frequently doubt. Reporters have forgotten the old-fashioned mantra of “where, why, how and what the hell are you hiding? “
They surely have. Reporter’s skool doesn’t place any emphasis on those things, Mara, but rather on the reporter’s role in social activism. Most lecturers are hardcore leftists.
O/T:
Corrupt, much? You decide.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11768598
There’s a pattern here in NZ, where the wealthy and prominent sportspeople are treated differently to we the peons.
I would add; nearly everyone in Auckland who owns a better than average home can now be described as a “millionaire.” The need for the msm to use the description in a headline seems to be intended to engender the pattern you refer to. It is the same where a well-known person is convicted of drink/driving. If he/she has a BMW, Merc etc…the make of the car is inserted. If you’re caught over the limit the make of the car is immaterial to the offence. I suspect the practice is simply the msm generating envy. None of the above endorses disparate treatment of those hauled-up before the Beak.
The real complaint I have is the inconsistency surrounding name suppression. If a defendant is referred to by occupation the practice of name suppression serves only to besmirch those others in the same job. If there’s a conviction then the name and reputation of that person must become public knowledge. The worst instances (I can think of a lawyer) are where it is a sex crime against a child and the defence claim that publication of the name of the offender wouldn’t be in the interests of the child. I say B/S to that! The other hackneyed argument for name suppression is the one about the further a person falls the greater the punishment. How can this idea account for an individual’s remorse or conscience? I say B/S to that too!
Imagine my surprise.