Family slammed after sea lion drags girl into water in Richmone BC.

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Port officials are lambasting the family of a young girl for "reckless behaviour" after she was dragged into the water by a sea lion off a dock at Steveston in Richmond, B.C.

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Robert Kiesman, chair of the Steveston Harbour Authority, said there are several signs posted at the popular tourist destination warning people not to feed the sea mammals that frequent the area.

"You wouldn't go up to a grizzly bear in the bush and hand him a ham sandwich, so you shouldn't be handing a thousand-pound wild mammal in the water slices of bread," Kiesman said.

"And you certainly shouldn't be letting your little girl sit on the edge of the dock with her dress hanging down after the sea lion has already snapped at her once. Just totally reckless behaviour."

Kiesman said that there are similar issues with people feeding marine mammals throughout B.C., including Prince Rupert, Comox and Victoria.

Family slammed for 'reckless behaviour' after sea lion drags girl into water in Richmond, B.C. - British Columbia - CBC News

Robert Kiesman, chair of the Steveston Harbour Authority, said there are several signs posted at the popular tourist destination warning people not to feed the sea mammals that frequent the area.

"You wouldn't go up to a grizzly bear in the bush and hand him a ham sandwich, so you shouldn't be handing a thousand-pound wild mammal in the water slices of bread," Kiesman said.

"And you certainly shouldn't be letting your little girl sit on the edge of the dock with her dress hanging down after the sea lion has already snapped at her once. Just totally reckless behaviour."

Kiesman said that there are similar issues with people feeding marine mammals throughout B.C., including Prince Rupert, Comox and Victoria.

Family slammed for 'reckless behaviour' after sea lion drags girl into water in Richmond, B.C. - British Columbia - CBC News
 
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petros said:
"You wouldn't go up to a grizzly bear in the bush and hand him a ham sandwich, so you shouldn't be handing a thousand-pound wild mammal in the water slices of bread," Kiesman said.
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Of course not. That'd get you killed. Everybody knows grizzlies like pastrami on rye with brown mustard.
 
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Port officials should have had appropriate signs up.
Just is just another example where Union gov dummies blame everybody else for their stupidity.

This is a tourist area, anybody that knows anything about tourists knows that tourists do stupid things, so you have to have appropriate signs up to warn tourists.

Port officials are fully responsible for what happened here, Union dummies!!
 
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Durry said:
Port officials should have had appropriate signs up.
Just is just another example where Union gov dummies blame everybody else for their stupidity.

This is a tourist area, anybody that knows anything about tourists knows that tourists do stupid things, so you have to have appropriate signs up to warn tourists.

Port officials are fully responsible for what happened here, Union dummies!!
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I put it on the sea lion, but that's just me.
 
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petros said:
They need signs in Mandarin or immigrants that can read the English signage?
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Nothing wrong with safety signs in the language of the popular tourist,,,,we sure like their money,,,we should give them signs they can read, eh!!
 
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Durry said:
Port officials should have had appropriate signs up.
Just is just another example where Union gov dummies blame everybody else for their stupidity.

This is a tourist area, anybody that knows anything about tourists knows that tourists do stupid things, so you have to have appropriate signs up to warn tourists.

Port officials are fully responsible for what happened here, Union dummies!!
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There are signs up.

Watch the video and you hear people who speak English; if they were tourists, likely someone there could and should have translated the signs.

The port authority was right to say what they said.

These people ignored the signs from the Sea Lion (it had already tried to nip at the little girl when she looked like she was going to feed it, but didn't). What happened was the fault of the family for disobeying the law (up to a $100,000 fine for interacting with the sea lion). Likely they won't get charged, but... that doesn't absolve them of fault.

Glad the kid is okay.
 
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Serryah said:
There are signs up.

Watch the video and you hear people who speak English; if they were tourists, likely someone there could and should have translated the signs.

The port authority was right to say what they said.

These people ignored the signs from the Sea Lion (it had already tried to nip at the little girl when she looked like she was going to feed it, but didn't). What happened was the fault of the family for disobeying the law (up to a $100,000 fine for interacting with the sea lion). Likely they won't get charged, but... that doesn't absolve them of fault.

Glad the kid is okay.
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It was the Port authorities fault, if there was any signs they were poorly placed and not many, if any.

The first thing they did was to put up signs, they would not have done this if they were already in place.
Just another Port authority Union screw up trying to blame the family for their incompetence
 
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Durry said:
It was the Port authorities fault, if there was any signs they were poorly placed and not many, if any.

The first thing they did was to put up signs, they would not have done this if they were already in place.
Just another Port authority Union screw up trying to blame the family for their incompetence
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The signs were in the video.
 
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