An asshole tourist in Maui threw a huge rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal nearly hitting the seal’s head. When locals called him on his assholery, he reportedly told them, “I don’t care. Fine me, I’m rich.”
From The Independent:
The man was filmed lifting a large rock from a beach and throwing it towards an endangered seal as it swam off the Lahaina shoreline last Tuesday, narrowly missing the animal’s head.
Kaylee Schnitzer, who filmed the video, can be heard yelling at the man: “What are you doing? Why would you throw a rock at it?”
She later told KHON 2: “We told him that we called the cops, and he was like, ‘I don’t care. Fine me, I’m rich.’ He said that, and he kept walking.”
The Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement’s Maui Branch dispatched officers to the beach, where they detained the suspect.
Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources said it will not be share the suspect’s identity as he has not been criminally charged at this time. He is understood to be a 37-year-old man from Seattle, Washington.
According to local authorities in Hawaii, the asshole was detained, identified and advised of his legal rights. He declined to make a statement and invoked his legal rights by requesting counsel of an attorney.
Past attacks on endangered seals in Hawaii have garnered fines in the thousands.
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