New PETA ad targets Anna Maria shark attack victim

[SpartanDem]

Source: mysuncoast.com

ANNA MARIA, Fla. - A controversial PETA advertisement has been released, targeting the recent victim of a shark attack that happened off the coast of Anna Maria Island.

"Payback is Hell" is being used to send anglers a message that fish feel pain.

"It may be an unusual way to get the message across, but I think it will cause people to be more sensitive towards fish," says Ashely Byrne with PETA.

Last weekend, 21-year-old, C.J. Wickersham was spearfishing in the Gulf of Mexico, just a few miles from Anna Maria Island.

"We are certainly glad the man is going to be alright, but we hope he and other fishermen will use this as an opportunity to rethink fishing," said Byrne.



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Don't these people have better things to do?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. They do it to get our attention, to make us remember them...

And it works.

I don't even think they care if we hate them...

This story just sucks.

x(

[pitohui]

31. their actions suck, it is not the fault of the story or the reporter

i will never forget their cruelty, right after kurt cobain lost his battle with depression, putting out that ad about "a hole in his head"

it was just cruel, they play on human feeling and sympathy and for what? they do not actually rescue any animals, they don't even KNOW anything about wildlife nor do they do adequate animal rescue of ferals/tame animals...they just steal the money and put it in their pockets or use it to create more advertisements that cause more hurt and pain and bad memories

they steal from genuine help to real animals, every penny that goes to them is a penny in the toilet that could have gone somewhere that was genuinely helpful

[tabasco]

2. Kooks who embarrass responsible animal rights workers. n/t

[uppityperson]

3. Here's the story on the shark attack victim. I keep thinking PETA won't sink lower

and keep being disappointed by them. Let me see if I have this right. If people stop fishing, sharks will turn vegan?

http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2011/september/320173/Shark-Attack:-Friends-frantic-911-call-released

[ZombieHorde]

5. "If people stop fishing, sharks will turn vegan?"

No, but spearfishing attracts sharks.

[hobbit709]

7. If they believe that, I dare PETA to swim with sharks.

It would solve a couple of problems.

[Confusious]

10. Fundametalists ALWAYS sink lower.

Humanity doesn't matter, only the ideology.

[tblue37]

17. Well said. Extremists and fundamentalists. The term "cause-head"

doesn't refer just to extremist/fundamentalist types, but they are also cvause-heads: i.e., people who define themselves entirely by whatever cause they latch on to. Often the cause itsef isn't all that important, and which cause the person supports is often accidental--whatever shows up first while the person is looking for a cause. They just like to feel righteous and to use what is, for them, a "bully" pulpit, not in Teddy Roosevelt's sense of the term, but in the current usage of "bully."

[ZombieHorde]

4. Funny. nt

[HuckleB]

6. PETA reminds me of the guys who stand in college plazas preaching to the undergrads.

The more grief they get from students in no mood to be preached at via a bullhorn on the way to class, the more they feel saved at the end of the day. PETA seems to be in the same boat, so to speak.

[MADem]

8. Gawd, they're just....stupid, aren't they? Crass, tone-deaf, attention-seeking NITWITS. NT

[24601]

9. From now on PETA means People Eating Tasty Animals and they

can bugger off now and forever. In their honor, I'm not going to have a steak. No, I'm going to have two steaks and a side of shark.

I'll believe their crap when history is re-written and Steve Irwin again walks the earth.

[Kalidurga]

11. Vegan sharks?

No? So why should humans become vegans or vegetarians?

[chollybocker]

12. "...it will cause people to be more sensitive towards fish,"

OMG, when i read that, I almost choked on my kitten salad sandwich.

[RebelOne]

13. I am a supporter of PETA, but this is a bit extreme. n/t

[formercia]

14. PETA was penetrated many years ago.

The Powers That Be have their people on the inside crafting these types of ops to discredit the Left.

I have a copy of a videotape that was crafted by one of them for public consumption. They gave it to me to watch and I still have it.

It's just another version of the COINTELPRO provocateur.

[saras]

18. Not at all surprised at that - why would someone imagine that all that crap magically stopped?

Or, phrasing it another way, what about PETA makes them so unimportant and uninfluential that they would NOT be infiltrated?

Saw 'em as a kid in the antiwar movement, saw 'em in the women's movement, saw 'em in the the Central American refugee movement, saw 'em in modern anarchist groups, saw 'em at antiglobalization protests.

And PETA is somehow immune?

[Psephos]

25. An alternate, equally un-disprovable, theory is that you are from PETA and have penetrated DU.

When everything's a conspiracy, nothing's a conspiracy.

[formercia]

33. Sorry, but I'm dealing with first-hand information

Maybe you just can't handle the Truth.

[NickB79]

41. Then post the video you claim to have on YouTube for all to see

If you truly have "the Truth".

[formercia]

42. I'll show it to whom I please.

It's a couple of hours long anyway. Since when do I take orders from you?

[snooper2]

44. Don't let the PTB know you still got that...

They've been looking for all the last copies that were supposed to be destroyed!














:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[formercia]

46. Aren't we funny today.

Looks like the crew is on the job.

[snooper2]

49. Fucking hilarious actually ROFL

:rofl:

You should see my nightime act :)

[formercia]

51. Fucking pitiful if you ask me n/t

[snooper2]

52. Well nobody did, but while we are at it..

Could you at least put PART of it on youtube for us..


PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Nuclear Unicorn]

53. I once had a guy try to date me by saying he had a red ferrari

but it was always in the shop.

[Dreamer Tatum]

39. Do you keep it next to your video of Elvis feeding the Loch Ness monster?

If you had such a tape, you'd publicize it. If PETA had been "infiltrated," someone would have said so.

You are full of shit.

[formercia]

47. Aren't you clever.

Thank you for your kind attention.

I just said so.

[MicaelS]

48. You need a better grade of Tinfoil...

That shit you're using is letting the someone's mind-control rays leak in, again. :nopity:

[formercia]

50. Looks like I'm keeping the whole crew busy Today.

Keeps you from making trouble elsewhere.

[tabasco]

57. Yeah, obviously a lot of those infiltrators here

making fun of you.

Thanks for keeping them busy from infiltrating elsewhere.

[formercia]

58. Thanks for the visibility kick. n/t

[fascisthunter]

15. evil PETA

lol

[jmowreader]

16. Remember the "sea kittens" campaign?

http://features.peta.org/PETASeaKittens/

Which worked real well because a LOT of people hate cats.

[DRoseDARs]

21. Lol, I like how the little cartoon girl is strangling/suffocating the seakitten. n/t

[flvegan]

19. Heh.

A billboard that will never happen, yet here we are talking about it.

Score one for PETA.

[blank space]

20. Really ?

Its funny you say that, because I am going out to get a double big mac specifically in response to this ad.

I hate mcDonalds, I dont eat the shit. However if this is my first reaction.

[Raine]

23. That makes awhole lot of sense

:eyes: go ahead and eat shit that you hate, your gut will thank you for it. :evilgrin: Why not get a fish sandwich from them since the PETA campaign has to do with fish. :silly: At least TRY and be logical. :crazy:

[Javaman]

45. Thanks for the idea...

I think I'll got get some net caught bluefin tuna. :)

[Raine]

54. Go for it

that makes more sense than the other poster's brillant idea. :P

[Javaman]

56. actually, by you saying that only high-lights that you haven't a clue as to what you are talking

about.

catching blue fin tuna in a net is the equivalent of eating California Condor eggs.

[flvegan]

30. LOL!

Yeah, you sure told me. "I'm gonna go eat SHIT because of this ad!"

:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

37. I imagine many people allow their reactions to be predicated by others.

"I hate mcDonalds, I dont eat the shit. However if this is my first reaction..."

I imagine many people allow their own reactions to be predicated by others.

Enjoy eating something you hate that will have zero effect on anyone by you. That'll show 'em... :shrug:

[Skip Intro]

22. PETA rocks. Btw, bashers, don't we all love that vid of a deer attacking a gun-toting hunter?

You know, when you go into an animal's habitat, domain, lure it, trick it, then try to kill it, it makes it kinda hard for me to have a ton of sympathy for the "sportsman" when the animal decides to fight back.

As far as PETA goes, they do what they do. Seems the only time the topic of humane treatment of animals comes up is when some sick fuck does some sick s**t to a dog or cat, or PETA does something to push a button and start a conversation. I got no problem with PETA doing that.

[SpartanDem]

40. The conservation is all about PETA tactics

and most it's negative. Not exactly winning strategy to get your message out.

[Matariki]

24. I can imagine a planning meeting at peta...

people sitting around asking themselves - "how can we be assholes today?"

they're stupid to think that 'any publicity is good publicity'. I swear the organization is run by petulant 12 year olds.

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[formercia]

36. It's like the Pro-Cannon Fodder crowd

displaying pictures of aborted Fetus for shock effect.

Don't kill this child, we need them to make the enemy waste their bullets.

[LanternWaste]

38. with each new ad campaign...

"I swear the organization is run by petulant 12 year olds...."

Who appear to get people talking and engaged in discussion with each new ad campaign. Not many 12 years can do that, petulant or not-- so I'm presuming the ad campaigns have an effect...

[Matariki]

43. "having an effect" is not the same as being effective

unless your only goal is to make people talk about how outrageously awful you are.

[gmee2]

26. I am going Bow Hunting next weekend....

maybe I'll send them some venison

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[Codeine]

59. Be extra-careful, Mr. Nugent.

[Drale]

27. PETA is like the Tea Party

They are doing far more harm to their causes and are give no help.

[unionworks]

28. here we go again

...with the "PETA" represents the total kookiness of the left" bullshit. Unrecommend.

[Matariki]

32. They are no better than fundies blaming Katrina or 9/11 on homosexuals, etc.

Or Fred Phelps protesting funerals because of the gay. Bunch of cruel zealots.

[ileus]

35. I took my kids fishing day before yesterday....maybe we'll go again this evening.

[tawadi]

55. Short-term attention, long-term damage to PETA's image IMO. eom

[Nihil]

60. So, does this mean that PETA has jumped the shark?

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