September 10, 2007
Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Parker said five people believed to be members of the Makah Tribe shot and harpooned the whale Saturday morning. The extent of the whale's injuries were not immediately known.
Tribe members were being held by the Coast Guard but had not been charged, said Mark Oswell, a spokesman for the law enforcement arm of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
A preliminary report said the whale was shot with a .50-caliber machine gun, Oswell said.
When asked about questionable choice of using a .50 caliber machine gun in a "cultural subsistence hunting" outing, Makah tribesmen were heard to say, "You try taking down one of these bastards with spears, arrows, and some elbow grease, mister."
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Damn Europeans (that's us)...trying to infringe on their cultural rights.
I remember the old cave murals, with the Bison hunt...peace pipe...thrill of the hunt...and automatic weapons. Those were the days...
Posted by: Stout Republican at September 12, 2007 10:06 AM (pycrG)
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