It’s The First Day Of Whaling Season In Iceland (Which Is Apparently Still A Country)

At least one whale should be spared on account of the effort that went into this guy's "stop whaling" suit (AFP)

It’s whaling season’s opening day in Iceland, and some guy named Gudmundur Haraldsson is throwing out the first harpoon. “We hope to catch the first minke whale today,” said Haraldsson, one of the whalers on board the Johanna AR.

Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson, manager of the minke whaler association, told AFP, “The first batch of meat will be in stores by the weekend.” He went on to add that this should give everyone in Iceland enough time to blow up their car for insurance money so they could afford said whale meat.

Here’s an idea. I’m just throwing it out there. Whale watching, one of the more popular tourist activities in Iceland, alone will not solve Iceland’s crushing economic problems. Nor is whaling the answer. But perhaps some sort of combo of the two activities could right the ship. You know how in some restaurants you can pick the lobster you want out of a tank? Well, in Iceland you could go out on a boat and go, “Kill that whale for me! That’s the whale I want to eat!”

You think I’m crazy, but that’s what they told the guy that built Dubai. They said, “You’re crazy. People won’t go to Vegas with no casinos.” But now that place is full of people wearing $10,000 Gucci dresses under a burka.