Huffington Post Falls For Fake Escaped Killer Dolphins Story

[g5000]

Huffington Post: Ukrainian 'Killer' Dolphins Escape Naval Training Base In Search Of Love, Report Says

Ukrainian "attack" dolphins may be on the loose and looking for love, according to a source familiar with the country's rumored secret military training program.

On Tuesday, Russian state media agency RIA Novosti reported that three dolphins had escaped from a Ukrainian naval training base in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. The mammals were possibly in search of suitable mates.

The outlet quoted a "former Soviet naval anti-sabotage officer" as saying this type of thing had happened during dolphin training programs during the 1980s.

"If a male dolphin saw a female dolphin during the mating season, then he would immediately set off after her. But they came back in a week or so," Yury Plyachenko told RIA Novosti.

HuffPo's source appears to have been this story: Ukrainian Killer Dolphins Deserted to Seek Mates - Expert | World | RIA Novosti

The Atlantic also fell for the story, but has since issued an apology: Update: Ukrainian Military Dolphins Not Actually on the Loose.

Killer dolphins on the loose.

Friends of Hamas.

Paul Krugman filing for bankruptcy.


Sure would be nice if we had real journalists somewhere out there.

 

[Katzndogz]

If we had gun control, it would keep those guns out of the fins of killer dolphins.

 

[AmyNation]

Classy.

 

[g5000]

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[Clementine]

Print first, check facts later. If facts prove story false, ignore. Quickly move on to another story bashing the right. Readers never catch on.

 

[waltky]

Takes a real depraved mind to do something like this...

What's Behind Spike in Gulf Coast Dolphin Attacks?
March 29, 2013 > Dead—and sometimes mutilated—dolphins have been turning up recently.

When Louisiana Fisheries and Wildlife personnel discovered a dead bottlenose dolphin near Elmer's Island late last year, they figured it was another victim of the 2010 BP oil spill. So they were shocked when an onsite necropsy showed no signs of oil-related injury, or of bacterial infection, biotoxins, or disease—the most common causes of death in dolphins. Instead, the Louisiana officials found a tiny piercing on the right side of the dolphin's blowhole. That hole would later reveal the cause of death: a small bullet lodged in the animal's lung. The killing turned out to be another in a growing string of apparent attacks on dolphins and other marine mammals reported along the Gulf Coast in recent months.

A bottlenose dolphin found shot dead in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on November 9, 2012.

According to a December report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2012 three dolphins with gunshot wounds were found "stranded" (or washed ashore) along the Gulf Coast—the highest number since 2004. In addition to those with gunshot wounds, several mutilated dolphins—with severed heads, missing tails, full-body slashes across their abdomens, and missing pieces of jawbone—have been discovered in recent months off the shores of Alabama, Florida, and Texas. While the general mortality rate has not increased in dolphins, scientists and animal-rights advocates are finding an unusual amount of evidence suggesting human harm to the animals.

Last June, for instance, a dolphin was spotted swimming in Perdido Bay, near the Florida-Alabama border, with a screwdriver sticking out of its head. A day later the dolphin was found dead in the water just west of Dupont, Alabama. Such incidents prompted NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) to launch a federal investigation last November into crimes against dolphins in the Gulf. Killing a dolphin or any other marine mammal is a federal crime punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and a year in jail. Because the dolphin attacks have occurred sporadically, along all 1,680 miles of the Gulf Coast, officials do not believe they are the work of "one single madman," as Humane Society field director Sharon Young explains. "It may be comforting to think it's one person doing this," she says, "but it really isn't."

Unusual Cruelty

 

[tooAlive]

HuffPo still thinks it's real?

 

[OKTexas]

Takes a real depraved mind to do something like this...

What's Behind Spike in Gulf Coast Dolphin Attacks?
March 29, 2013 > Dead—and sometimes mutilated—dolphins have been turning up recently.

When Louisiana Fisheries and Wildlife personnel discovered a dead bottlenose dolphin near Elmer's Island late last year, they figured it was another victim of the 2010 BP oil spill. So they were shocked when an onsite necropsy showed no signs of oil-related injury, or of bacterial infection, biotoxins, or disease—the most common causes of death in dolphins. Instead, the Louisiana officials found a tiny piercing on the right side of the dolphin's blowhole. That hole would later reveal the cause of death: a small bullet lodged in the animal's lung. The killing turned out to be another in a growing string of apparent attacks on dolphins and other marine mammals reported along the Gulf Coast in recent months.

A bottlenose dolphin found shot dead in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on November 9, 2012.

According to a December report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2012 three dolphins with gunshot wounds were found "stranded" (or washed ashore) along the Gulf Coast—the highest number since 2004. In addition to those with gunshot wounds, several mutilated dolphins—with severed heads, missing tails, full-body slashes across their abdomens, and missing pieces of jawbone—have been discovered in recent months off the shores of Alabama, Florida, and Texas. While the general mortality rate has not increased in dolphins, scientists and animal-rights advocates are finding an unusual amount of evidence suggesting human harm to the animals.

Last June, for instance, a dolphin was spotted swimming in Perdido Bay, near the Florida-Alabama border, with a screwdriver sticking out of its head. A day later the dolphin was found dead in the water just west of Dupont, Alabama. Such incidents prompted NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) to launch a federal investigation last November into crimes against dolphins in the Gulf. Killing a dolphin or any other marine mammal is a federal crime punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and a year in jail. Because the dolphin attacks have occurred sporadically, along all 1,680 miles of the Gulf Coast, officials do not believe they are the work of "one single madman," as Humane Society field director Sharon Young explains. "It may be comforting to think it's one person doing this," she says, "but it really isn't."

Unusual Cruelty

It's not good that people are hurting the dolphins, but what I found most horrific is this story is NOAA has an Office of Law Enforcement. WTF!? Does every agency in government have law enforcement?

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I had read that article too.

 

[JoeB131]

Huffington Post: Ukrainian 'Killer' Dolphins Escape Naval Training Base In Search Of Love, Report Says

Ukrainian "attack" dolphins may be on the loose and looking for love, according to a source familiar with the country's rumored secret military training program.

On Tuesday, Russian state media agency RIA Novosti reported that three dolphins had escaped from a Ukrainian naval training base in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. The mammals were possibly in search of suitable mates.

The outlet quoted a "former Soviet naval anti-sabotage officer" as saying this type of thing had happened during dolphin training programs during the 1980s.

"If a male dolphin saw a female dolphin during the mating season, then he would immediately set off after her. But they came back in a week or so," Yury Plyachenko told RIA Novosti.

HuffPo's source appears to have been this story: Ukrainian Killer Dolphins Deserted to Seek Mates - Expert | World | RIA Novosti

The Atlantic also fell for the story, but has since issued an apology: Update: Ukrainian Military Dolphins Not Actually on the Loose.

Killer dolphins on the loose.

Friends of Hamas.

Paul Krugman filing for bankruptcy.


Sure would be nice if we had real journalists somewhere out there.

Unfortunately, that's what happens when you look at news as a way to make a profit rather than a public service.

Like any other business, you seek to maximize profit while minimize expense.

So why hire journalists to see if a story is true when you can just link to someone else's story?

So then you get people quoting the Onion as real news, and not realizing it's the freaking Onion.

 

[hjmick]

This ONLY something that happens to Right-Wing news organizations so the story must be true!

 

[waltky]

mick wrote: This ONLY something that happens to Right-Wing news organizations so the story must be true!

Granny says, "Dat's right...

... dey put it onna interweb didn't dey?"