Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists today for stealing Whale meat. Police raided five areas where Greenpeace activists had been known to congregate. The arrested activists are 31-year-old Junichi Sato, and 41-year-old Toru Suzuki.

Here is the funny part. The so-called stolen Whale meat was confiscated over the past couple months from Japanese Whalers. It turns out that employees of Japanese Whaling operations had embezzled Whale meat that was "harvested" from Japan's Antarctic "scientific" Whaling program and sent it home to their families in order for the meat to be sold on the black market. Greenpeace had confiscated the meat as part of their investigation of the embezzlement. A police spokesman said that Sato and Suzuki were arrested for "illegally obtaining a cardboard box and trespassing." Awesome. So these to men are being prosecuted by the Japanese government for exposing the crimes and corruption of the Japanese Whaling interests. Beautiful Justice!
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Here are some pictures of the Whale meat:

Yummy!

Apparently it's an acquired taste.

The Chum Slick is also an acquired taste.

--El Tiburon

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