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Octopus Hunter Receives Death Threats, Blacklisted Over Legal Catch After Photos Go Viral — See Them Here

Nov. 5, 2012 1:07pm Liz Klimas

In the same way some might enjoy fishing or hunting game, others like Dylan Mayer hunt octopus — and it’s perfectly legal. But the 19-year-old from Washington has received death threats after photos of his latest catch were posted on the Internet.

Last week, Mayer and a friend caught a Giant Pacific octopus in the waters of Alki Cove 2 near Seattle, Washington. Other divers took pictures of Mayer holding the female octopus and wrote a blog post about his actions, which was then linked to by Northwest Diving Institute and has gone viral since.

Seattle Octopus Hunters Legally Catch Animal But Now Experience Community Backlash

Mayer holding his catch on the shore. (Photo via KOMO News)

The blog Rapture of the Deep posted photos of Mayer in his diving gear holding the octopus and wrote:

The octopus was clearly in distress and fighting, but the divers repeatedly struck the mantle and then carried it up the beach and to the parking lot, writhing and squirming, where it was unceremoniously thrown into the back of a red Ford pickup truck.

Several local divers including Bob B. and Mark S. confronted the captors and and began asking questions. The individuals clearly did not care that they had just taken a beautiful octopus from one of the most popular dive sites in the state of Washington. The divers tried to reason with the hunters and explained that people come from all over the world to this site to see these GPOS, which have been likened to pets within the local community.

The octopus was put into a red pick-up truck. (Photo via KOMO News)

My Northwest reported Bob Bailey expounding further on his feelings about the hunting activity:

“Duck hunting is legal. It’s perfectly legal. Imagine how you would feel if, while you were enjoying these ducks in the park, someone walked up and shot them. That’s very much analogous with how divers feel when someone pulls an octopus out of a popular site.”

My Northwest then reported that Bailey and others have spread the word to such an extent that Mayer and his friend are now banned from many scuba shops in the Puget Sound area.

Mayer measures the octopus he caught. (Photo via KOMO News)

“Those people didn’t do that out of emotion,” Bailey said to My Northwest. “They’re protecting their business. People come here from all over the world and they pay money to come here to see these animals. So there is an economic interest in protecting them.”

Watch this local news report about the community outrage:

In the report, a shop owner said that some of the groups asking that dive shops not provide service to the men who caught the octopus have done so in a threatening manner.

According to KOMO News, Mayer said it was his dream to become a rescue diver, but he now feels that this aspiration could be jeopardized as he has recently been refused from diving schools.

But these aren’t the only consequences Mayer is experiencing. My Northwest reported parents of the two hunters said they’ve even received threatening calls at home.

KOMO News reported Mayer saying though that he eats octopus for meat. He and his friend had the appropriate license for catching the octopus, which allows for one per day. The Giant Pacific octopus is a legal species to capture as well.

“It’s no different than fishing. It’s just a different animal,” he said.

Some reported that Mayer had taken the female octopus from her nest, but Mayer told KOMO this is not true and that an official even verified it:

The involved game warden, Wendy Willette, said Mayer did not do anything wrong.

“I think the timing, manner and place where the harvest occurred may be the issue. It could have been done at a better time,” she said. “It’s like deer hunting. You don’t kill a deer while kids are viewing it, and I think it’s a similar problem here. You need to be sensitive to other drivers and people if you’re going to be a sportsman.”

Watch KOMO’s report:

The families of the two boys issued a statement, which read in part:

Our sons are good young men and do not deserve the backlash that this has created. Our families do not deserve to live in fear based on the threats that have been made. Please keep this issue in perspective. This was about a couple of young men that were going fishing for the day. Nothing more. Nothing less. They were not aware they were doing anything wrong.

The statement continues saying the men had never intended to do anything malicious and yet they are still apologizing to those who were offended. The men are described in the statement as amateur divers who “mistake made from inexperience and unfamiliarity of the culture of diving.”

(H/T: Huffington Post)

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commoncents5
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:09pm
They didn’t do anything to deserve threats or fear in their lives. I wouldn’t eat Octopus or squirrel because they were designed by God to keep the waters and the earth clean. Same reason I wouldn’t eat a vulture. It keeps the earth clean. They are unclean animals and not for human consumption. But if you want to put that stuff in your body you have free will to buck the designer!

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- Warriorswife
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:42pm
  You can’t cherry pick the Bible to make it conform to your own philosophy. In Acts 10 God showed Peter all the animals of the earth that were considered “unclean” and then told Peter to “kill and eat” (because he was no longer under the law) We were put here to please God and given dominion over the Earth and everything in it.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:47pm
  @Warriorswife even if i accept your belief that we have dominion over the earth, that surely comes with the responsibility to look after it and perhaps even cherish gods creation. These kids aren’t the real problem the problem is the industrial and human waste and chemical runnoff that is tossed into the oceans every year. The garbage vortex in the pacific ocean is the size of Texas. If what you believe is true then I would think at some point god will take it away from us, due to being the selfish children we are.
- burnteye86
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 4:32pm
  What are squirrels supposed to keep the earth clean of? Acorns?
  
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- Warriorswife
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 5:20pm
  JROOK, The Bible calls on us to be good stewards of the earth, our own money, our own children because they are all gifts from God. Man, it says was Created in the image of God, (Imagine that! God says I made you to look like Me) a little lower than the angels. We were given knowledge to rule the earth, and we have. With knowledge comes great responsibility aka stewardship. Unfortunately, the responsible ones usually have to fix or remake what the irresponsible destroy. There is nothing wrong with responsibly harvesting animals, crops etc to eat. I don’t endorse killing animals for a trophy to just waste the meat. We sure can’t villainize every person who harvests an animal.
  
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- Dave
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 7:45pm
  @warriorswife: how come every vision in the bible is taken as figurative except that vision? could it be possible that God wasn’t telling him it was ok to eat unclean animals and instead the unclean animals represented the gentiles (who were viewed as “unclean” people by the jews) and so God gave him that vision to tell him to also spread the gospel to the gentiles especially since before that vision the gospel wasn’t shared with the gentiles. i would also like to point out that Jesus had said specifically that he did not come to do away with the law (the dietary laws are part of the law) wouldn’t suggesting otherwise be calling Jesus a liar?
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:26pm
  Ummm good eating…
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:40pm
  I see Burn beat me to the acorn comment. I ain’t eating a ground squirrel but I will eat tree squirrels all day long and love every second of it.
  
  I really feel sorry for this guy. I have seen what the animal rights psycho’s are all about with the Canadian wolf issue. They are as evil as they come. Actually all Leftist are evil, nothing but pure evil.
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:45pm
  @Dave…glad it works for you. As for me and my house, we eat what we want. We have been delivered from those laws. We have been redeemed. Enjoy your shackles Pilgrim.
  
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- stumpy68
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Both Octopus and squirrels are good eating although
  ive never eaten an octopus over 9 or 10 inches.
  
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- Favored93
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:32pm
  @Warriorswife
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:42pm
  You can’t cherry pick the Bible to make it conform to your own philosophy. In Acts 10 God showed Peter all the animals of the earth that were considered “unclean” and then told Peter to “kill and eat” (because he was no longer under the law) We were put here to please God and given dominion over the Earth and everything in it.
  ———-
  The only thing I disagree with you about here is the premise… which is that the “unclean” animals are good for Human consumption. Are we free to eat them under grace? Yes. But they are God’s “clean up crew” and are not the best things to put into our bodies. Wisdom says the Old Testament dietary law makes sense and should be followed for our health’s sake not because we have fallen from grace back into law.
  We are also free to eat food sacrificed to idols but admonished not to for our conscience sake… that to me means we are free not to as well…..
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 12:07am
  @burnteye86
  What are squirrels supposed to keep the earth clean of? Acorns?
  
  Squirrel keep making PETA drivers run into ditches and trees!!!
  
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- TenStrings
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:01am
  JROOK, the ‘Garbage Vortex” is a hoax, pure plain, and simple.
  
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chickenfried
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:02pm
I’d like to try fried octopi. Why? Because to fry octopi you’d upset Occupy and I’d like to spit in the eye of the guy who’d decry my octopi fry.

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- Cashpipe
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:15pm
  If you’re looking for a thrill it’s best cooked on the grill.
  
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- feddup
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:18pm
  much better grilled than fired (and healthier)
  
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- txannie
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:40pm
  @chickenfried@cashpipe….You guys are good. Loved it.
  
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- SocietyOfUniversalKnowledge
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:17pm
  For such a tasty meat, it certainly is a delicious treat.
  
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ZAP
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:00pm
When to the park yesterday.Kids were smashing squirrel eggs. I called the cops….

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- GrumpyCat
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Eggs? Squirrel? What planet?
  
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- SocietyOfUniversalKnowledge
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:21pm
  Dude – please, do us all a favor and get your GED!!!
  
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- SocietyOfUniversalKnowledge
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:24pm
  …and just exactly what did the cops say when they arrived and you told them someone was smashing squirrel eggs? Note to self – The Easter Bunny doesn’t lay eggs either.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Squirrels only lay their eggs in the highest branches of trees where they’re very hard to reach. Those may have been rat eggs that the kids were smashing.
  
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- Blacktooth
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 4:45pm
  Squirrels do no lay eggs!
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 6:26pm
  Ahhh… the age old question…
  
  What came 1st?….. The Squirrel or the Egg?
  
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- Mustanger
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Squirrel egg? That’s wrong. The octopus in the picture is a close cousin of the NW tree octopus, which lives on squirrel and rat eggs. Now this is a problem because Bigfoot needs the tree octopus for protein stores going into a bad winter ( made worse by human caused global warming). We know Bigfoot is the main protector of pigeon hatchlings.
  Circle of life dude, circle of life
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:38pm
  What are you talking about?…….eggs…they come from the grocery store….DUH…
  
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Tal-El
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:58pm
It’s legal, it’s yummy, end of story. No need to apologize.

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- Wolf
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:12pm
  Well, I’d apologize if I forgot to bring the napkins or salad. Well, maybe not the salad- rabbit food ain’t kosher at an octopi fry. Come to think about it, maybe rabbit food ain’t good at a rabbit fry, either. :\
  
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Brae
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:58pm
It is a little beyond me that Mayer expresses a desire to be a rescue diver; a diver that risks his own life to save those of others in distress, when he shows such callousness in his dealings with other creatures. I happen to love the octpus and have dove and observed them in years past. Their level of intelligence is exhibited everyday on their home turf. Mayer obviously ignored this and decided to engage in some sort of life and death power struggle. Very adolescent and deadly and frankly disgusting. If he cannot respect the environment he chooses to engage with, well then he should not be partnered with by those who do respect it; ie the dive shops.

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- MCON29
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:13pm
  4 more years of an Obama economy and YOU will be dragging Octopus out of there for consumption.
  
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- TDrury
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:46pm
  I guess you are a Vegan then?
  
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- DRT_7.62_BTHP
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:51pm
  BRAE
  I’m a lifeguard who fishes. According to your logic my treatment of fish should disqualify my desire to help drowning humans. Get real.
  
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- Cray-Z-Conservative
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 5:18pm
  @BRAE:
  
  Humans are on a different level than animals. I would jump into the sea to rescue a drowning HUMAN but I would never do the same for a drowning ANIMAL. God placed animals on the earth for our use (whatever that may entail) and they should not be put on the same plane of importance as human life. Everything this boy did was completely legal and he should not be discriminated against because he wants to hunt an octopus. These dive schools are ridiculous and so are you.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:27pm
  So tell me, Brae- what lack of compassion is there in hunting and fishing and how does it relate to what one does for a living that requires a passion for people? I suppose you think it’s more compassionate for a shark to eat the octopi (of this instance) or to let the animal die of starvation or over population?
  There’s got to be a short circuit in people whose brains relate human emotion to animals.
  You say, “…Mayer obviously ignored this and decided to engage in some sort of life and death power struggle. Very adolescent and deadly and frankly disgusting. If he cannot respect the environment he chooses to engage with, well then he should not be partnered with by those who do respect it; ie the dive shops…”
  Obviously, you have no idea what diving for anything entails- going into a foreign environment and gathering food. As for respecting the environment: what part of the environment did he disresepct? You presume to have more respect for it, but you obviously have no respect for human beings, so your ‘respect’ is hardly real. ‘those who respect it’, such as dive shops? Those people obviously have no respect for either the environment nor people- they’re liberal communist tree huggers, Godless baby killers- and you show them respect?
  Frankly, you’re very adolescent and disgusting.
  
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BornGreen
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:57pm
Sorry fellow Republicans I have to disagree with most of you. If any of you were educated on the animal you would have a lot more respect for it. Being a biology major throughout college I actually had the oportunity to study and disect this curious animal and its an amazing creature. Respect nature here. The kid didn’t need an Octopus to survive! Obvious by the insulting photos he took. When you kill to eat, you’re preparing that kill ASAP. He wanted for an Art project is what he said first and foremost. It just a lack of respect and to do it in an area where people dive for photo ops and recreation is disrespectful. There is a time and place for everything and he chose poorly.

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- L.B.Stephens
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Borngreen,
  I agree, this was a decision made by an immature fellow who has no respect for the octopus and no respect for the sensibilities of his fellow man.
  My grandfather told me “just because you can do a thing, does not mean you should do it”. As we grow older, we should also grow in wisdom, knowing how to make proper decisions that have consequences. Decisions always have consequences, either for the good or for the bad.
  These young men chose poorly.
  
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- Jedrin
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:36pm
  If you dissected one for mere fun? There is no reason in the world to “disect” one for mere fun. For sure you are far worse than the fishermen. Nice. Look in the mirror, murderer. Really you are just throwing rocks in a glass house. Look in the mirror, you are a monster. People love their dogs more than their children, and that is sad.
  
  Sarcasm
  
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- Jedrin
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:43pm
  Oh yes, what about all the insects that die on the windshield of your car? you have taken food out of some poor birds mouth. Quit driving and save the planet. Insects are people too.
  
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- Old Truckers
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Jedrin,
  Try to calm down there buddy.
  Eat a snickers bar.
  
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- orkydorky
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:49pm
  So, while you were dissecting an octopus, you sir, had no consideration of eating it, or where it came from, or who you offended while butchering the beast? I think me see a bit of hypocrisy here.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:38pm
  “…Respect nature here. The kid didn’t need an Octopus to survive!…”
  You don’t need a steak to survive, either. Or a roast turkey. Or a ham on holidays- or any day. But that doesn’t matter as long as we ‘respect nature’.
  But it’s OK for you to study biology and dissect them in a lab so you can become some kind of holier than thou guru extolling the wonders of respecting nature.
  The kid has more honesty than you.
  
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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:51pm
Reality check. How much do you want to bet these same doofusses (doofi – in honor of octopi) have eaten octopus at their favorite sushi bar? Hypocrisy is a hallmark of liberalism in all its myriad forms.

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Clownzilla
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:47pm
The warden is wrong about kids viewing. When a kid sees an animal getting hunted they know where their food comes from.

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thegoldman
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:46pm
Octopus….

Goooood eating !

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drphil69
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:44pm
Well, it’s perfectly legal, BUT…. (insert unintelligible liberal rant here).

Ya know what? If children were watching as I pull back on my compound bow and put an arrow through the kill zone of a deer, I WOULD BE DELIGHTED.

The problem with so many libs is, they eat meat BUT WON’T KILL ANYTHING ON THEIR OWN.

Somebody has to KILL IT!

MAYBE IF THEY HAD TO KILL THE ANIMALS THEY EAT THEY WOULDN’T BE SO OBNOXIOUS!

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- 00100111
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:19pm
  That’s what always made me laugh about libs who eat meat. They have no concept of where it came from. Hunting is the most honorable way to harvest meat, hands down. They think it’s cruelty to animals, but have no problem going to Kroger or Wal-Mart or a butcher, getting the weeks old meat in that pretty little cellophane packaging and making their dinner with it. They should go take a look at how much of an assembly line a butcher shop is, then tell me if they think hunting is still the cruel one. Not that I have any problem eating meat from a butcher shop, but I’m also not a lib saying hunting is cruel, lol.
  
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- Clownzilla
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:31pm
  When I took a hunter safety class back in middle school(guns in school…..OH NO) the one concept that the teacher would focus on OVER & OVER was to go out of your way to make an honorable kill and don’t let the animal suffer.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:47pm
  All you people who hunt and kill poor defenseless animals for sport should just go to the butcher shop and buy meat where no poor animals had to die.
  (ROFL- sarcasm off now- I’ve a copy of a personal ad that reads thus.)
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:35pm
The only “not smart” thing about hunting squirrels in a park, you flipping moron, would be that people could possibly get SHOT. No real hunter would hunt with people walking around, so don’t compare octopus hunting to squirrel hunting. And, BTW, plural of octopus are octopi, not octopusses. Dumb @$$.

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- Oneirishman
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:44pm
  How is it the Blaze has hired a bunch of liberal tree huggers as its immature writing staff?
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Actually, ‘octopuses’ is just as correct of a plural form of octopus as ‘octopi’. Interestingly, my browser’s built in spell check flags ‘octopi’ as incorrect and gives a pass to ‘octopuses’. Regardless, both are correct so you should probably know what you’re talking about before questioning the intelligence of others.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:12pm
  @KUPO
  I learn something new everyday, and not afraid to say I was wrong about that side point, but can you argue my main point?
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 7:00pm
  No, I more or less agree with you, although I personally don’t agree with what this guy did. From my understanding the guy didn’t hunt this octopus for food, he hunted it primarily for some sort of an art project.
  
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Carrie3570
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:34pm
So it’s come down to this. If you are fishing or hunting and someone is offended, you must apologize. And to be sportsman you must hunt and fish when nobody is watching.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:45pm
  Most Liberals sure don’t like bugs though.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 2:23pm
  Personally, after I go deer hunting, I like to take it to the middle of a park playground and field dress it there. Scar those kids for life.
  
  What? I’m the only one who does that?
  
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coyote1hell
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:34pm
You think this stinks, if Big “(o)”..yeah that’s a b-hole, gets re-elected, you won’t be able to go in the ocean..the Mussie-bro-hooded, Marxist, Stand Down Clown..will see to that..Thru his EPA…

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dfranke2703
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:31pm
what a bunch of idots out there…no wonder we have the president that we do.

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nonofmybiznez
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:29pm
Calamari anyone? Seriously, aside from people witnessing the event, if they had caught a fish, would you still be sending death threats?

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biohazard23
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:27pm
Pass the soy sauce and extra wasabi!

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Master K
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:26pm
Let’s Go Red Wings!!

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- biohazard23
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Ha – good one! Start the season already!
  
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ohiowordguy
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:26pm
I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of people causing this outcry have no problem whatsoever with abortion-on-demand.

Perspective, people. It’s all about perspective.

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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:32pm
  Ditto
  
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kaydeebeau
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:26pm
Just pretend it is a human baby snatched and murdered from the womb – that will make it ok – isn’t that correct leftits immorals?

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lessoneleg
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:24pm
If the fellas caught it to eat it, and it’s not against the law to fish the octopus. I believe they do have a right to catch and eat. But to catch and entertain, well that’s a different thing. That isn’t what “ethical hunters and fishing people do”.
what the story doesn’t say is, octupus breed, and die off like salmon, and like many other aquatic life at the end of their life cycles. Likewise this octopus is going to die really soon.
I do though disagree with Animal Rights nuts out there who put this misguided belief these animals are “pet creatures” with Walt Disney names and such. Much like some other Animal Rights enthusists who befriend sort of Grizzly Bears which later on snack on the Animal Rights nuts. From my own area, animal rights nuts advocating hunting bans have put more animal life in danger from not being culled. It’s far worse watching animals of the wild starving because of the “so called” good intentions of the animal rights activists. But animal rights activist rarely photograph the errors of their ways, only big bad hunters.

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MrEDS
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:23pm
Looks Yummy

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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:40pm
  When octopus is cooked properly it’s great eating.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Lemon Chilli Octopus
  
  2 kg baby octopus
  1 tablespoon fresh lemon rind, grated
  3/4 cup lemon juice
  2 tablespoons olive oil
  2 tablespoons hot chili sauce
  4 cloves garlic, crushed
  
  Directions:
  1. Remove and discard heads and beaks from octopus, cut octopus in half.
  2. Combine octopus, rind, juice, oil, sauce and garlic in large bowl, cover, refrigerate 3 hours or overnight.
  3. Drain octopus from marinade and discard marinade.
  4. Add octopus to heated skillet or barbecue, cook over high heat until just tender.
  serve and enjoy!
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:21pm
SOME people do not believe that humans are part of the food chain. They also think that their hamburgers come from the Beef Fairy and that no animals were harmed in their making. Nature IS a beautiful creation. But, WE ARE A PART OF IT and we need sustenance as much as they do. I doubt that tourism will be that great when people are starving. At least, these guys eat what they kill, as opposed to others that hire a “hit man” (the butcher) to do their killing for them.

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- Carrie3570
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:41pm
  “The Beef Fairy” ~ That’s perfect. I was watching a program where some people were lost in the woods and they killed squirrels, ducks, etc. for food. One of the men that did this said, “I normally wouldn’t kill an animal. It’s not right, but we were starving. People should not kill animals unless it is an emergency. There are plenty of stores that sell meat.” I have always wondered how he thought the meat got to the store. Now I know, “The Beef Fairy”!
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:19pm
Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:34pm
  Lol, All you have to say is that Liberalism is a mental disorder. I say bottom feeders don’t divide themselves from bottom feeders.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 4:26pm
  You are right. Liberalism is a mental disorder and liberalism causes stupidity. Liberals are the one’s calling these divers threatening them because the legally killed a sea creature. Liberals rather save the life of an animal than a human being. Can we say ‘abortion’? Sure we can.
  
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theninthplanet
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:17pm
The only thing they did wrong was to apologize to these eco nuts.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:12pm
I see Chris Cristie’s face in that octopus.

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