Invasion of the Giant Seals
Friday, 2nd March 2007 by Alex Turnbull
Yes people, there really is an absolutely enormous seal in The Hague, Netherlands. Apparently it belongs to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and presumably it's designed to so utterly terrify the seal hunters that they're unable to ever again harm another seal pup...
However that doesn't explain why someone else in the Hague has another1 gigantic seal in their back garden! I'm thinking guard dog. Erm... guard seal.
Thanks to Felippo.
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I refuse to believe this could be the same giant seal. I mean, how would they breed? ↩︎
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
A seal is a “seadog” in Dutch, so your guard dog theory might be correct.
Oh wow, just imagine how many fur coats I could make from those!
Uh.. i read “Fund for Animal Warfare” first oO
Maybe those seals are one and the same? The guy who made it might have tested it in his garden before when the satellite flew over. Then the satellite or plane or whatever did another shot from the place where it’s now. btw Your links are both leading to the garden-version although I could swear they worked correctly a minute ago… strange.
Btw I don’t think shooting seals is always a bad thing. If there are too many of them – why not? If the cockroach gets in danger of extinction I’d really like to see Paul McCartney and his wife lying next to some roaches with a smile on their faces. gg (This of course doesn’t mean you can kill seals inhumanly!)
Nikita – the difference is that seals are cute and look up at you with big brown eyes just before you cave their heads in, where as cockroaches tend to try and bite you in the neck and rip your heart out as you try and kill them (well the cockroaches in my old bedsit did anyway!)
Are you sure this isnt the Netherlands equivalent of Edinburgh’s trampoline craze? Perhaps one person got one and then everyone got ‘seal envy’ and needed to have one. I’m sure you can bounce up on down on these giant blow up seals, which is great because in my experience real baby seals arent very bouncy when you jump up and down on them!*
*another joke – i’m a vegetarian really!
Some pixelated buildings to the south. Interesting…
There are over 200 areas in NL which have been blurred out – you’re really not missing anything being unable to see some boring government buildings. In Summary:
Giant seal = interesting. Blurry building = not interesting.
If you want to know where “interesting” buildings or installations are in the Netherlands, just start looking for blurry patches with straight edges.
Some installations that couldn’t even be seen are now painfully obvious (like a couple of antennas behind a fence in the middle of a field)….
Wicked. Now if someone was to ride the seal and have Google earth retake the photo with them while on the seal, that would be the best sighting ever.
i’d say this is real but 99.5 % stuff on google earth is fake but that other 5% is just unexceptionable so this is one of those 5% the can’t be explainable
You need a permit to kill animals (and for guns if you’ve been arrested or pulled over )