Article: Kudos to Bob Bailey - NWGratefulDiver

[Chaiyz]

Thumbs up Bob!

 

[kjw2547]

Thumbs up Bob!

The diver was doing something legal in my state the post would have been considered hunter harassment. The way that this was gone about is all wrong there should be some type of reason to protect a game species not public sediment.

 

[MudPup]

Absolutely agree with kjw2547 and Dave Hendrick. The ocean is for all of us to use, and harvesting animals is a way of life on land and in the water. It has been for thousands of years, and eating what he harvests himself is SO much better than eating the chinese farmed crap they pedal in the markets. This bleeding heart crap makes me sick.

Bob, you should be ashamed of yourself for harrassing a hunter legally harvesting game.

 

[wishnIzfishn]

For Scubaboard and it's "members" to support harrassment of another individual who has done nothing illegal or immoral is reprehensible. Shame on all of you.

Kevin Fleming

 

[Mitchell Teeters]

Let's hope a legislator will step up and sponsor a bill for this. Next comes the initiative if no legislator steps up. Good luck Bob!

 

[Johan Marais]

Balance is the key. As a spearfishermen, I agree that it is selfish to NOT practise restraint when harvesting in an area also enjoyed by SCUBA divers; mere legal compliance is no longer the issue here. But then I don’t take kindly to bubble blowers throwing a hissy fit if I spear a decent gamefish either!

 

[scubadad2]

I am going to leave this page. While Bob may do good things for the community, The fact that this community endorses threatening a 19 year old that did something LEGALLY is more upsetting than the other issue. Yes you changed this kids mind (even if it was with intimidation), but condoning such action is not what the community should be about. I do not wish to have any part of it. Good Bye.

 

[kotik]

Funny how a stream of users have made their first post within a single day, dragging up a lot of petty arguments that were better buried back in the original thread.

For you would-be defenders: you aren't doing your subject any favors dragging this stuff back up, holding him up as a righteous example of law-abiding cleanliness. Bob didn't threaten anyone, all he did was relate in public something he witnessed in a public place. The behavior he witnessed was distasteful, and when some of the other less than pleasant ways the young man in question comported himself started showing up in the spotlight, there was a lot of negative reaction to the public image he went to the trouble of making for himself.

The young man in question has since apparently made steps to become part of his society rather than wipe his tail with it, I'd say it's a good opportunity to let the past go and let him get on with that. To bring this back up will just force the other camp to keep pointing out why he came under such attack in the first place.

 

[Allison Finch]

So where do i sign up for the petition to stop the harassing and threatening of this
diver who never broke the law but is being unlawfully persecuted?
I'm all for preserving the environment, making protected areas etc, but they can't be put ahead of human life, and if the users here are so fanatical they'll threaten human life for political gain, what kind of world are they trying to preserve?
You know,i think the speed limit in your neighborhood should be lower, so I'm going to phone and harass and threaten you, even though you obey the present speed limit! bunch of idiots.

Yep, knew this was going to happen. Always the haters...

Why rain on the parade and at least be happy that one corner of the world might receive protection? Geeeze!!

---------- Post added December 10th, 2012 at 01:37 PM ----------

Absolutely agree with kjw2547 and Dave Hendrick. The ocean is for all of us to use, and harvesting animals is a way of life on land and in the water. It has been for thousands of years, and eating what he harvests himself is SO much better than eating the chinese farmed crap they pedal in the markets. This bleeding heart crap makes me sick.

Bob, you should be ashamed of yourself for harrassing a hunter legally harvesting game.

Of COURSE you agree. Judging from your post count, you all joined just to say that. Welcome to the forum, I just hope you learn a little while you are here.

---------- Post added December 10th, 2012 at 01:38 PM ----------

I am going to leave this page. While Bob may do good things for the community, The fact that this community endorses threatening a 19 year old that did something LEGALLY is more upsetting than the other issue. Yes you changed this kids mind (even if it was with intimidation), but condoning such action is not what the community should be about. I do not wish to have any part of it. Good Bye.

Bye!!

 

[calidiverdan]

Funny how a stream of users have made their first post within a single day, dragging up a lot of petty arguments that were better buried back in the original thread.

For you would-be defenders: you aren't doing your subject any favors dragging this stuff back up, holding him up as a righteous example of law-abiding cleanliness. Bob didn't threaten anyone, all he did was relate in public something he witnessed in a public place. The behavior he witnessed was distasteful, and when some of the other less than pleasant ways the young man in question comported himself started showing up in the spotlight, there was a lot of negative reaction to the public image he went to the trouble of making for himself.

The young man in question has since apparently made steps to become part of his society rather than wipe his tail with it, I'd say it's a good opportunity to let the past go and let him get on with that. To bring this back up will just force the other camp to keep pointing out why he came under such attack in the first place.

I am a freedive spearfisher. Tho I am personally opposed to spearfishing on scuba, and I choose not to take octopus of any kind because I just think they are too cool, and I have seen other freedivers boasting or behaving in what I consider un-sportsman like behavior, if they are not doing anything illegal, why drag them thru the mud? Why lambast them in a public manor? Leave the poor kid alone or keep it between you and him. Tell him how you feel and walk away. If you want the octopus to be protected, start a scientific study that proves they need protection and present your argument on it's merits, not sensationalism. I think eating factory farmed animals is inhumane, I don't think Bob would like me to snap a bunch of pictures of him chowing down on a big fat hamburger and putting it up on a PETA website, and starting a campaign to ban factory farming using his name and images for posters and what not.