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PETA Wants Roadside Memorial for Fish Killed in Car Crash on Way to Market

Oct. 30, 2012 10:45pm Jason Howerton

This image provided by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shows a California roadside memorial sign to honor fish killed during a container truck crash in Irvine, Calif. PETA volunteer Dina Kourda told Irvine’s street maintenance chief the sign would remind drivers that fish value their lives and feel pain. About 1,600 pounds of saltwater bass died on Oct. 11 when the truck hauling them to market got into a three-way crash. (Credit: AP)

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Animal activists want a California roadside memorial sign to honor fish killed during a container truck crash.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals volunteer Dina Kourda told Irvine’s street maintenance chief the sign would remind drivers that fish value their lives and feel pain.

About 1,600 pounds of saltwater bass died on Oct. 11 when the truck hauling them to market got into a three-way crash.

Kourda’s letter acknowledges roadside memorials traditionally honor humans, but she hopes an exception will be made.

Irvine spokesman Craig Reem says there won’t be a fish memorial.

But PETA spokeswoman Asheley Byrne said they will go back and ask again.

It’s not the first time PETA has asked to post a memorial for animals killed on their way to slaughter.

They’ve tried to honor pigs killed in Virginia and cows killed in crashes in Illinois, Kansas, and Manitoba, Canada, Byrne said, but none have been approved.

It’s their first fish effort. They will continue trying for memorials when trucks carrying animals to slaughter are involved in crashes and there is a heavy death toll.

“They are on their way to slaughter, which is, of course, pretty hellish. To suffer an accident on the way and be left in the middle of the street is unthinkable,” Byrne said.

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Jenasus
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 12:00am
PETA, The fish were already dead before the accident.

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- donkeykong
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:05am
  Note to PETA – form a group like the “Heavens Gate”
  cult, then do the same thing they did.
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 6:35am
  And they have zero problem with abortion………………
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 6:36am
  That was my thought….they were on ice and out of water, do they really think they were alive? I got an idea…let’s stop oil production and go back to leather shoes, leather clothes, and real wood furniture. Oil is used in all those things, as well as the glue that holds plywood together, so no more using wood chips to make something with.
  
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- HMNSC
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:12am
  Sometimes there are just no words…..
  
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- richard the lion-hearted
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 9:55am
  Ummm, me thinks we need a memorial sign for all the earthworms who bravely traversed those evil, lethal, obstructive, man-made structures, you know, sidewalks…dying in agony from the coarse, dry, design, tortured for their superior 5, that’s right 5 hearts, within their sleek, streamlined bodies, left to die, drying and rotting, for what?! OHHH THE AGONY…
  
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- Kenszen
  Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:05am
  I think the fish think more than the humans do at PETA.
  
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spirited
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:58pm
…. and, plants and nuts have feelings too.

>Cracked!

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- White Devil
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 3:50pm
  If I had money to blow on a rediculous sign like them, this is a good idea of what it would look like:
  
  “IN MEMORY OF THE HUNDREDS UPON THOUSANDS UPON MILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF FISH EATEN IN THE WORLD EVERY YEAR, VICIOUSLY BATTERED… AND FRIED.”
  
  or perhaps…
  
  “IN MEMORY OF THE TRILLIONS OF TAXPYER DOLLARS OBAMA STOLE DIRECTLY FROM OUR WALLETS”
  
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powedj
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:50pm
Thought PETA should know: I do not eat anything that walks sideways.

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nobull14
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:42pm
There going to market to be sold cooked and eaten ? What a bunch of Idiots !!!!

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normalmom
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:36pm
These people just need to take the rest of themselves off of the deep end. Their brains are already there.

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SUNTZU
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:24pm
Sign at Captain D’s
In memory of 2 billion fish eaten.
what you just want a salad,OK ,would you like a little PETA on that
and some creations.

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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:30pm
  So nobody at PETA cares about the millions of children killed at Planned Parenthood over the years – by all means lets gloify FOOD – and we wonder why we are in such dire straits as a Nation? Pray – People – Pray
  2 Chron 7:14 & just for good measure Joel 2:12-13
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:49pm
  PETA Planned-Parenthood
  Both Progressives
  Save the Fish,Kill the Babies ,about 400,000 a year
  They are all Bassturds.
  
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YAHUSHUAHRULES
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:21pm
Add your comments

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justa_thought
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:19pm
Hey how about a new fried fish on PETA? Sweet! Cook ‘um up yum yum yum

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marine249
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:17pm
I would like peta to put up road signs here in Mt.
for all the deer, elk, skunks, cats, dogs, etc killed
on the highways and byways here.

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- marine249
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:24pm
  and my I add
  they will broke as fast as the U.S.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:17pm
Just. Friggin. Insane. And then, they want to take down the crosses people put up for the loved ones they lost. The HUMAN loved ones.

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coldnorth
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:11pm
If PETA is so concerned about dead fish they should come to Alaska and help the thousands of salmon that swim up steam only to die at the paws of ruthless brown bears who just go around eating their heads and leave the bodies to rot. I’d love to see that couragous PETA person thow paint on Mr. brown bear and try to grab that salmon out of it’s paws.

Well, I’d enjoy everything but the paint part.

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- Cray-Z-Conservative
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 3:12pm
  Hahaha! Damn those uncaring and selfish brown bears!!! Such a nuisance…
  
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justangry
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:08pm
How about a memorial steakhouse?

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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 1:34am
  a memorial for the Paul revolution ?
  
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Watermain
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:05pm
I thought this must be a joke when I saw it. This group is really out there, I mean like Pluto out there. Give it up people. Most of us like to eat animals and it’s easier when they’re dead.

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- deloclem
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 10:07am
  Fish aren’t animals, they’re fish! They have no central nervous system, they feel no pain.
  
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OlefromMN
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:03pm
John Belushi in the Samurai Delicatessen came to mind as I read this…

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4262

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- MaltedCheese
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:12pm
  I thought of Dan Aykroyd and his blender!
  
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- MaltedCheese
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:14pm
  I just remembered it.. Bassomatic. LOL
  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7msdl_saturday-night-live-bassomatic_fun
  
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macpappy
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:00pm
OK PETA, you pissed me off. Because of you, first thing in the morning I’m going out and kill me a whole mess of fish.
I know some old Washington State lumber jacks that go spotted owl hunting all the time.
Keep up the good work.

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- SUNTZU
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:18pm
  I have BPH so I use my PETA to piss me off 10 to 20 times a day
  
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copatriots
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:00pm
Let’s also put up a road sign for the millions of gnats killed on windshields every night. Damn…. humans are so selfish!

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MaltedCheese
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:59pm
PETA sucks.

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Fatheroftwo
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:57pm
Hey, I value a fishes life too!! A nice big fat Salmon giving up it’s life on the grill to fill my belly! YUMMMMMY!!!!

On a lighter note PETA is a bread!! Goes good with tuna in it!!!

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BloodSweatandTears
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:57pm
Test question:

1) MMMMMMmmmm…..yum….!

2) Proof PETA is insane.

3) The global elite is introducing the concept of animals as higher value than humans. (One fish at a time.)

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possom
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:54pm
And not a word about the millions of birds that get chopped up every year by wind turbines or that king obie put horse back on the menu.

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- copatriots
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:59pm
  You’re asking too much critical thinking skills from the PETA crowd. They just can’t make that logical leap.
  
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environmentalandawake
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:54pm
WTH?! Are they kidding with this?

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mike551
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:54pm
I have a bait & tackle store. Send them to me. I will give them the greatest honor they could hope to achieve. I will turn them into fish bait….as GOD intended. IMPEACH THE MUSLIM OBAMA NOW!!! GET US OUT OF THE UN!!!

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- mike551
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:58pm
  Forgot…….I built it.
  
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justa_thought
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:54pm
Id say they should open up a fried fish shop. Cookum up. At least they werent dogs like ovama ate.
I wonder what kind of dog he ate???

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- SUNTZU
  Posted on October 30, 2012 at 11:35pm
  A Barny Frankenweenie Dog
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on October 31, 2012 at 4:49am
  Time to put up a memorial to the unknown dog, we have can have marines guard it too!
  
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Gregb
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:51pm
right on… and I think that they should take down those “Deer Crossing” signs so that deer won’t cross there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5z-VgHbRm0

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denkat56
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 10:50pm
That’s it I’m going to have tuna fish sandwich, but I’ll eat slowly , just in case peta wants to watch

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