Shot Whale Found In New Jersey, Reward Offered For Information

ALLENHURST, N.J. -- A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of whoever shot a whale at sea, leaving it to die slowly until it washed up on a New Jersey beach last month.

Two branches of The Humane Society offered the reward Thursday, a day after the Sept. 24 death of the whale became widely publicized. It washed up on a beach in Allenhurst and died shortly after police responded.

A necropsy showed the short-finned pilot whale had been shot in the head. The bullet lodged in the animal's jaw, causing an infection that left it unable to eat.

It weighed 740 pounds at its death. But it should have tipped the scales at well over 1,000 pounds.

Comments

[Hugatreetoday]

03:29 PM on 10/07/2011

You just wait. The sorry a$$hat that did this will get their comeuppance some day when they go for a swim. Mother nature will see to that.

[ladyangelnyc]

11:56 AM on 10/07/2011

The suffering of that poor animal, humanity can truly be cruel. "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." - St. Francis of Assisi

[GBYACHT]

11:51 AM on 10/07/2011

It takes a real corageous person to shoot and kill an innocent animal. A person could be next. Instead of enjoying the beauty of life they feel empowered to destroy it. Sick, sick. I hope they find this coward and he gets the max. penalty.

[Genep34]

11:29 AM on 10/07/2011

another tea party member with their six shooters on being brave

[hidenout3]

10:11 AM on 10/08/2011

another hp poster spouting ignorance....could have been a union goon, you never know, do you? (see how stu pid you and I look posting such drivel?)

[Genep34]

11:00 AM on 10/08/2011

you make my point - thanks

[zt54]

11:07 AM on 10/07/2011

We have enough unsolved murders of human beings to worry about. Don't waste resources. Quit the personification of animals and we will all be better off. Maybe Christy wanted sushi? It takes a lot of steam to keep a big engine rolling.

[john649]

02:52 PM on 10/07/2011

thank goodness nobody listens to you. The selfishness of some humans is quite sickening.

[Jeremyewilliams]

06:57 PM on 10/07/2011

Go back to Fox.

[Cait bart]

10:18 AM on 10/07/2011

So sad!! People are so cruel and these animals are going to become extinct ): sadly not alot of people care...

[sincityplaya00]

10:48 AM on 10/07/2011

You took the words straight from my mouth.... could ot of said it better myself.

[Cait bart]

11:39 AM on 10/07/2011

Sadly its the truth..

[DoctorDirector]

12:48 PM on 10/08/2011

True. And "these animals" becoming extinct could well be us soon.

[justgigging]

09:46 AM on 10/07/2011

Whale commited suicide...just couldn't take another Snooki and Jersey Shore cast siting...

[shatil2051]

09:20 AM on 10/07/2011

This is just awful...there is no justification for doing this...why on earth would someone should a pilot whale? I am ashamed this happened in my state.

[Martin Miller]

08:53 AM on 10/07/2011

Poor whale, I would put that kid who killed the shark in Georgia on the usual suspects list though...

[thenightingaie]

08:24 AM on 10/07/2011

How awful. Why would anyone shoot a whale? They're so beautiful. I hope they catch whoever did it and fine him/her up the wazoo.

[Jeremyewilliams]

07:07 PM on 10/07/2011

Why would anyone shoot anything beautiful or not? Beauty is subjective. There's no more reason to kill a porcupine than there is a whale.

I hope they catch the scum as well.

[Malcolm Hensley]

09:23 PM on 10/06/2011

The police should be interviewing the spouse! Hey they are just like us right.

[Ben Winslow]

08:22 PM on 10/06/2011

I'm "dead" serious folks....you have to listen to the words to this song. Enjoy it, but it will make you sad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJiZlPPrO0

[iknowscottyknows]

07:46 PM on 10/06/2011

Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that whale.