Marine biologist facing 20 years in prison for feeding whales

The actual news article linked in the blog posts clearly states that the twenty year maximum punishment is for lying to investigators and presenting investigators with an edited video, not for feeding the whales. Basically obstruction of justice. The maximum penalty for the illegal feedings is one year and one hundred thousand dollars per incident.

Yup, kinda like how Billy Clinton was impeached for lying, not for the bj.

I'd be happier with stronger fines for littering. I hate dirty, filthy bastards who think the world exists solely for them to do as they please. Smokers are the worst...why is it acceptable to toss your butt on the floor?

I hate scummy, selfish farkers like that.

For the same reason it's okay to dump metric TONS of toxic mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and uranium up and out the stacks of power plants and directly into the food chain in lakes and rivers.

It's a FREE country.
Tell you what, you stop the polluters and I'll stop flipping my ciggy butts on the sidewalks. Call me when you've done your part.

This blog article actually isn't very good and is lacking in most of the details that are in the original news article. Apparently there is a law that ship captains are to stay at least 100 yards away from whales. This is to protect ships, their passengers and the whales from colliding into one another. Ships have been sunk by and whales have been injured/killed in whale strikes (or should that be ship strikes?). I'd imagine feeding whales would bring a ship or would draw whales into dangerous proximity of one another. Also, I'd imagine, if whales develop an association between ships and receiving food, they will learn to approach them, in which case other/all ships are jeopardized, as well as the whales themselves. This isn't like feeding pigeons. These are giants.

Now, whether her offenses warrant the same level of punishment as, say, committing second degree manslaughter, probably not. It's important to note that the punishments stated are the MAXIMUM possible punishments, so her actual punishments could be...and probably will be...significantly different.

That's a pathetic argument for you. "Somebody else does it, so I can too" That's the justification I'd expect from a five year-old.

Nope, but the post made it clear that the law wasn't going far enough. I disagree with such ridiculous penalties for such a minor offense. How would you feel about $100,000 littering fines?

I'd be happier with stronger fines for littering. I hate dirty, filthy bastards who think the world exists solely for them to do as they please. Smokers are the worst...why is it acceptable to toss your butt on the floor?

I hate scummy, selfish farkers like that.