Carlo De Leonibus Saved the Day at Sea World?: Saying the “F” word in front of little kids
There is more wrong than what’s obvious when a beached pilot whale struggled to get back into the water at Sea World in Orlando for about 25 minutes before trainers finally went to push it back in. The crowd witnessing the event protested in fury. When no trainers appeared to help the struggling animal after about 10 minutes, Carlo De Leonibus pulled out his cell phone and started filming stating heroically, “I went and told a SeaWorld employee in a dark blue shirt who said it was normal and that it was fine, playing etc.,” De Leonibus wrote in a description of the video he posted on YouTube. “I went back to the bleachers and began recording. What I saw changed my view of SeaWorld forever. The crowd becomes furious, yelling to save the dolphin. After an additional 10-15 minutes after my recording they sent two dolphin trainers in to push the dolphin back in.” You can read more about the story at the link below.
Carlo believes that he saved the day for the poor “dolphin” by putting pressure on Sea World employees to react to his media coverage. But sadly, the truly disturbing aspect of this entire situation is that Carlo should have had a better understanding of the situation before reacting so poorly to his panicked 11-year-old daughter which is why Carlo was at Sea World with his family—to celebrate her birthday. It was Carlo’s job to explain to his daughter that the creature was not a “fish” and would not drown because it was out of water. The animal was not a dolphin, but was a breed of whale related to dolphins. It was a mammal and breathes air just like all people in the world. The pilot whale could have remained out of the water for hours and been just fine. The Sea World staff knew that the best way to teach the whale to survive is to let it learn how to put itself back into the water on its own, rather than waiting for someone to come and save it.
Even worse than not having the knowledge about such elementary matters, the father actually cursed in front of his family in outrage that Sea World personnel were somehow not privy to his divine understanding of science. Upon hearing the hapless father who was filled with good intentions I immediately felt sorry for his daughter. She has no chance at life with parents who don’t know or understand such basic scientific facts, or lack the patience to get the information if they don’t know. Their first instinct was to protest like a bunch of radical buffoons to help a mammal that they thought was a fish by attempting to create a public relations nightmare for a wonderful company like Sea World.
More about pilot whales can be learned about at the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_whale
This is just another failure of modern society which is addicted to radical institutionalism learned from their public educations. What the families in outrage at Sea World witnessed was a natural occurrence that they were at the marine park to learn about. But they assumed that their collective protest had more power than the nature of reality. Because of their vast ignorance, which they had every opportunity in their public school biology classes to learn about, or the countless documentaries that have been produced by the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, PBS, The History Channel, and National Geographic, they were still ignorant to the fact that the animal was not dying on the side of the pool, but was simply stuck and the trainers wanted it to learn how to save itself.
The perception of the protestors reflects accurately the new age of welfare recipients where nearly half of all Americans are on some type of welfare. Their view of the world can be heard in the protests of the crowd at Sea World. They believe that Sea World to be good guardians of the world’s sea life, should help such animals from struggling and that it was inhumane to let the creature flop around in agony. The first instinct when the protesters saw the animal stuck on the side of the pool was that “someone” should help it, instead of thinking first that the animal should help itself.
Another serious issue percolated to the surface as even conservative news outlets covered this Sea World story favoring the view of the Carlo De Leonibus types. That issue was a general assumption that Sea World’s employees or even the corporation of the amusement park was somehow implicitly at fault because their emphasis was on “making money,” and were automatically up to no good because they are a capitalist endeavor. Few news outlets came out and said such a thing directly, but they certainly implied it. The assumption was that the mob of fans who wished not to see the flopping “fish” on the side of the pool knew better for the proper life and care of the pilot whale than the workers of an evil corporation.
The behavior of the De Leonibus family and the media in general points to a social failure that is quite catastrophic, the sheer lack of general education, the allowance of the youth to lead the adults with emotional pleas, and the desire to use activism to change the behavior desired by the masses is a dangerous sign that the human race is failing at an alarming rate in basic intelligence. It is simply just stunning that the father in this case didn’t tell his daughter—“the pilot whale will be just fine, it breathes air just like you and me.” And if the father didn’t know that little fact, he could have looked it up on his cell phone instead of trying to play a “gotcha game” with Sea World by recording the natural occurrence in order to stir up public outcry against the park.
I love Sea World. The service they do throughout the world for marine life is unprecedented. The knowledge they bring mankind is a true treasure. And for the good life they bring to animals that would see a far harsher existence outside the amusement park in the wild, any animal living at Sea World is lucky. They are fed every day at predictable times and they don’t have to contend with natural predators. A pilot whale in the wild that finds itself beached on some remote island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean doesn’t have any Sea World personnel to push it back into the ocean. It has to figure out how to get back into the water on its own, and once there has to worry every day about being eaten by a great white shark or even a killer whale. It is just pathetic that so much was made about an animal at Sea World doing something that is natural in the animal kingdom to receive so much panicky scrutiny from half-baked minds and radical, ignorant, protesters. Especially protestors who think it’s better to use the “F” word in front of their children while also teaching little girls that they can get what they want by crying, screaming, and being a panicky mess all the while supplementing the behavior with a complete lack of wisdom, logic, or even a desire to learn otherwise.
Rich Hoffman
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