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2025-10-14 Europe

Killer whales sank a yacht carrying a large family off the coast of Portugal

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Posted by badanov 2025-10-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1794 views ] Top

1 "I swear it looked like a great white shark to me"

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-10-14 07:54|| 2025-10-14 07:54|| Front Page Top

2 The yacht was sailing under the French flag.

Motive.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-10-14 09:17|| 2025-10-14 09:17|| Front Page Top

3 ^😂

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-14 11:29|| 2025-10-14 11:29|| Front Page Top

4 Dunno what the Portuguese have been doing to these whales but this is not the first time they've attacked and sunk a yacht and it's always off the coast of Portugal. Something must have pissed them off.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-10-14 12:12|| 2025-10-14 12:12|| Front Page Top

5 ^Sec Gen of UN is Portuguese

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-14 12:24|| 2025-10-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

6 IIRC the same thing is occuring off So. Africa

Posted by Frank G 2025-10-14 12:59|| 2025-10-14 12:59|| Front Page Top

7 Killer whales are reportedly intelligent. What could have set off this behaviour?

An interesting question. There are no reports of humans being eaten so it is not a question of those floaty things being full of food. Maybe the whales are just being jerks, messing around like cetacean delinquents.

Posted by SteveS 2025-10-14 15:31|| 2025-10-14 15:31|| Front Page Top

8 They're savvy on current events: "Looking for ~~Mr. Goodbar~~ Greta Thunberg"

Posted by Frank G 2025-10-14 18:43|| 2025-10-14 18:43|| Front Page Top

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-10-14 18:53|| 2025-10-14 18:53|| Front Page Top

10 Conundrum for New England scholars:
Why Springfield? Economist hollers,
"Behavior of troops
In the wild playing hoops
Involves chasing eventual dollars."

Posted by Wholumble Throluling2032 2025-10-14 19:44|| 2025-10-14 19:44|| Front Page Top

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