I remember a story...
...about Jimmy Somerville, Scottish falsetto-esque lead singer of Bronski beat and it seems, possessed of strong feeling on animal rights.

Oor Jimmy found himself in a restaurant which sported a tankful of lobster - the idea was you pick one and it promtly gets boiled alive and served up on a plate for you. Not my idea of fun, but Jimmy took major unbrage, bought the lot and released them all into the first stream he found... where they all died very quickly, as it was a freshwater stream. Yes Jimmy, it helps to actually know something about the creatures you purport to defend. Plonker.

There was another story I read about two seals that got caught in an oil slick in the states, but were rescued and painstakingly nursed back to health. Quite expensively too. There was a big ceremony when they were released where the onlookers got to watch them gambol in thier natural habitat for about ninety seconds before the pair of them were ripped to peices by a killer whale not far off the shore.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:54, 2 replies)

I've heard the seal one before
I wonder if it's on film.......
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:59, closed)

Sea lyin'
www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.asp
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 1:06, closed)

Shame

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 10:53, closed)