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Not the kind of news you see every day  More than 50 years after Flipper swam into our hearts, another bottlenose dolphin is now trying for our pants. Officials in the seaside community of Landévennec have imposed a ban on swimming at the local beach after an especially amorous dolphin has been terrifying tourists with his unwanted displays of affection. The “sexually frustrated” bottlenose dolphin, whom locals have nicknamed “Zafar,” has reportedly been rubbing up against small boats and attempting to push swimmers out of the water while “often clearly in a state of sexual arousal,” according to The Telegraph. “Swimming and diving are banned on the village shoreline… whenever the presence of the dolphin is confirmed,” reads a new bylaw issued by Landévennec Mayor Roger Lars, per the Telegraph. “Approaching within 50 meters of the dolphin is also forbidden.” "I took this decree to preserve the safety of people,” Lars told Ouest-France. “Bathers were very frightened. [Zafar] even raised a bather last Thursday, with his nose." Another local report, published in Le Telegramme, says Zafar had prevented one woman from returning to the shore for so long, that she needed to be rescued by a boat. Zafar isn’t exactly new to the harbor near Brest. Locals have spotted him swimming there for months, and interacting — peacefully and innocently — with students and sailors up until about a few weeks ago. Dolphin researchers who spoke with The Washington Post added that Zafar’s behavior isn’t all that out of the ordinary for a “solitary social dolphin” in his situation, as he’s been separated from his species and now yearns for “social fulfillment” from humans. A local lawyer has even threatened to have the village's ban overturned, arguing that instances of dolphin-related injuries are extremely rare, and that Lars is merely trying to “make dolphins look like ferocious beasts. That said, experts feel the dolphin’s desire for “fulfillment,” while not out of the ordinary, can still be very harmful to humans. "The dolphin is a wild mammal, it lives in a [group] normally, with precise social rules [and] will still seek contact, rubbing against boats, or people,” says Sami Hassani, a marine mammal specialist who spoke with Ouest-France. "Without hurting, a stroke of the caudal fin can do a lot of damage," he added to Le Telegramme. http://www.foxnews.com/travel/...at-french-beach.html | ||
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Damn this MeToo thing keeps getting worse! | |||
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They call him flipper "...no one you see... is hornier than he..." Bud & Sandi Ricks.... had no idea | |||
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"Zafar" is French for "Harvey". "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Toss him a few puffer fish to squeeze on and that will mellow him down  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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"If it smells like fish … " --- Flipper, Episode 12, "Lady and the Dolphin", 1964. ____________________ | |||
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Flogging the dolphin had to come from somewhere. | |||
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He needs to find his special porpoise. | |||
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#MeTuna "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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If the dolphin would wax more, he would calm down... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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"Another local report, published in Le Telegramme, says Zafar had prevented one woman from returning to the shore for so long, that she needed to be rescued by a boat. The rescuers reported that the woman kept jumping back into the water. They eventually duct-taped her to the seat, and got her back to land." ____________________ | |||
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 ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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Damn teenagers. That's all they think about! -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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"...and thanks for all the fish." "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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