January 8, 20187 yr 'Cause mannnn... the natural gas companies don't want you to know about how they bought off the governemnt to get rid of the whale oil street lights for natural gas ones, mannnnn...
January 8, 20187 yr I kind of always imagined it came about when someone gathered a bunch of laws from somewhere else and they passed them wholesale and it was just in there and as a result it stuck. No clue if that is even possible or is how early laws worked when states incorporated, but seems as logical as any reason I've heard.
January 8, 20187 yr That makes sense. I never thought of that. They probably just copy/pasted. It's really odd to me that as big as the great lakes are, the biggest creature dwelling in those waters is the lake sturgeon at around 7 feet.
January 8, 20187 yr Maybe it was a result of this particular... incident? ;D "Mr. Stewart was an agent for Aetna Insurance in 1877 when he decided to get into show business by buying a whale, a white whale, a beluga, and having it transported to Cincinnati. Stewart knew nothing, of course, about how to care for the delicate animal, and the results were tragic. By 21 June 1877, the Cincinnati newspapers were aflutter about Mr. Stewart’s whale. He had secured it in Labrador and made arrangements to transport it by ship down the St. Lawrence Seaway and by train from New York to Cincinnati. At the Lookout House atop Mt. Auburn, a huge tank was built, 30 feet in diameter and 10 feet deep, holding 168,000 gallons of salt-treated river water." More at Greg Hand's blog: https://handeaux.tumblr.com/post/107259547597/neptunes-revenge-cincinnatis-whale-captor-goes “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
January 8, 20187 yr A 'huge tank, 30 feet in diameter.' Yeah, sounds sufficient for a f-ing whale... One of the highlights of my childhood in the 90s was going to SeaWorld in Sandusky. I thought it was so cool and for a couple years, I wanted to be a Marine Biologist when I grew up. I had absolutely no clue how bad it was to hold whales and dolphins in captivity until I watched the documentary "Blackfish" a couple years back. SeaWorld almost went under, due to a documentary. I'm surprised they're still in business, in Orlando.
January 8, 20187 yr A 'huge tank, 30 feet in diameter.' Yeah, sounds sufficient for a f-ing whale... One of the highlights of my childhood in the 90s was going to SeaWorld in Sandusky. I thought it was so cool and for a couple years, I wanted to be a Marine Biologist when I grew up. I had absolutely no clue how bad it was to hold whales and dolphins in captivity until I watched the documentary "Blackfish" a couple years back. SeaWorld almost went under, due to a documentary. I'm surprised they're still in business, in Orlando. You mean your trips to Aurora. Sandusky never had a Sea World Park.
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