Returning to the scene of the crime

Transposed from an older blog


There may have been another dolphin delivery today, back to the French embassy.

This time the dolphine were in much worse shape. It turned out that the freezer van, come dolphin ambulance had broken down, and so the dolphins weren't really frozen. Instead to keep them cold they had been stored in a childrens paddling pool with lots of ice, which kind of worked, but they were a bit slimy.

I have a bit of a phobia about being late, so for anyone who turned up early, there may have been a very grim task of getting dolphins from body bags onto stretchers. This time one of the dolphins was partly eaten (urrgghh) but worse one of them had had their belly slit open and the guts were hanging out. Fishermen try to disguise the evidene of dolphin bycatch, by cutting them open and throwing them over the side, encouraging the bodies to sink. It's a disgusting practice at sea, and its disgusting to handle at 7am in the morning.

Action itself went fine, I'll post the press release seperatly, although there was a moment where the delivery vehicle disappeared, and there was nowhere to put the stretcher poles. The event itself coincided with a similar action in France, where I think all the activists involved got arrested. Not quite sure what for, but the French police seem to work on an arrest them now, sort it out later.

Off to work, and fun evening with old housemates, where we discussed circus acts, the G8, the power of laughter and some ideas that have been circulating for ridiculing urban 4x4 drivers. More should come of this.