Thanks to the help of some activists that worked with Louis Psihoyos on his Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, a Santa Monica sushi restaurant was busted for selling endangered whale meat. Wait, it gets better: The restaurant was called “The Hump.”
According to a search warrant, marine mammal activists were served whale during three separate visits to the restaurant. Federal labs confirmed the meat came from a Sei whale, an endangered species protected by international treaties, documents said.
In October, two activists posing as customers went to The Hump and ordered “omakase,” which means they let the chef choose the choicest fresh fish. They also requested whale and pocketed a sample.
The young women worked with Louie Psihoyos, director of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove,” to record the meal with a hidden camera and microphone. During the October restaurant visit, animal rights activist Crystal Galbraith, 27, and a friend who spoke fluent Japanese racked up a bill of $600, feasting on increasingly exotic dishes to gain the confidence of the waiters and chef.
“It was heartbreaking to eat an endangered animal, but I knew that I was doing it to save” the whales, said Galbraith, a vegan. “We were there eating for four hours. I felt so full and sick.”
The waitress brought out a dish of whale sushi, identifying the whale in English and Japanese, court documents said. The dish was listed as whale on the check and cost $85.
Court records say agents interviewed Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, a Culver City resident and a chef at The Hump for the past seven years, and he admitted serving whale to two young women. If convicted, Yamamoto could face a year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000. [AP]
Yamamoto went on to say that he did find it suspicious when the young woman began putting raw whale meat in her pocket, but was unable to chase after her on account of his raging boner. …What? It’s funny because it’s racist.
Is it just me, or does every food item in Japan come packaged with a smiling cartoon of whatever animal you’re eating on the outside?
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Finally a use for that “SEI WHALES” tag you’ve insisted on since day one.
I was hoping for more posts with “The Hump” tag.
Why bust the restaurant for serving it? They should bust the whale for ordering it.
Who could have a guessed that a guy named “Fisher” would win an Oscar for producing a movie about dolphin slaughter (and not for his amazing brown-face performance in Short Circuit)?
It’s SEA whales. Jesus, people are dumb.
Rook rike dey
*sungrasses*
Blowhole case open.
*YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH*
“I can’t believe I have to eat this rare lobster *sobs uncontrollably* Pass the butter.”
Yamamoto is also facing separate charges for ripping to the tops off of two female activists. When reached for comment he said, “What? They ordered the shark”
Spike Lee went undercover to investigate a restaurant that had been rumored to be selling spotted owl meat. Not because it’s an endangered species, but because spotted owl tastes like chicken.
Just a thought, but maybe they should have found a non-vegan activist to eat ALL THAT FUCKING DELICIOUS, ENDANGERED MEAT!
I’ll take some sperm whale….hold the whale.
This is the greatest sacrifice of a person’s principles for the greater good since Tom Cruise last touched a woman’s breasts.
Jack, I’m a non-vegan activist but I hate seafood almost as much as I hate vegans.
They began to suspect that The Hump was serving whale meat when they changed their slogan from
“You’ll have a whale of a time” to
“You’ll have a reasonably priced serving of a whale of a time.”
Yamamoto? Where’s Crappy? We still haven’t had our
autofellationStar Blazers marathon!Fucki
ng HTMLIs that raw whale meat in your pocket or are you just an animal rights activist with a hidden camera?
Do you think they referred to themselves as The Covert Ops?
Wait … that was the Yamato…
Oh, well, autofellatio it is.
Inspired by this story, several fans of ‘Avatar’ have vowed to paint blue and fuck every cat they can find until they get to the problem of this bestiality epidemic.
*root of the problem.
*plugs tail into light socket*
Dawn Brancheau got a good taste of whale and said it was killer.
I love the Who, but this one ranks up there with Pete Townshend’s purchasing a membership to a child porn site for “research purposes”
When reached for comment, the owner of The Whale said:
“Fook you acteevist! and Fook you whale!”
If you knew sushi, like I know sushi, oh oh oh, what a whale.
This whole mix-up was the result of cross-cultural mispronunciation when someone looked at the menu and asked, “Where is the special of the day?”
The Sei whale’s least-favo(u)rite FilmDrunk segment is “Hump Day Mashup”.
Sounds like these whale killers…
*puts on swimming goggles*
…served up some killer whale.
BONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG
Sei whale tastes a lot like Spotted Owl, but with more “Ooooaaaaeeeeeeeeeeee” than “Who”.
In Japan, Whale Watchers’ biggest competitor is Jen Nei Craig.
For his next film, Louis Psihoyos is going undercover with a Mexican drug cartel as Louis Psychic-Eyes.
I conducted a similar investigation at a regional franchise. I sat through dish after dish of the subject-ingredient. After eating at the ninth establishment I came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no whale in a Carvel Fudgy The Whale ice cream cake.
I did, however, find traces of actual Puss in some Cookie Puss cakes.
Activist, leaning across counter to sushi chef, whispers: “Sei whale.”
Chef: “Whare”.
*Everyone laughs*
FIN.
[manhole (teehee) explodes violently into the air, Crappy bursts skyward (heetee) and lands in bad ass ninja pose]
Somebody say Star Blazers?
Yamato tastes terrible.
Then again, I’m not a fan of either yams or tomatoes, so I’m a bad judge of these sorts of thing.
Just the tought of eating all that sushi made her wail.
The vegan went on about her struggles to finish off all that sushi by saying “I just had to close my eyes and pretend it was my frigid bitch Wednesday-Friday girlfriend.
But did it give her a boner? Because Jap chow is aaallll about the boner?
two activists posing as customers went to The Hump and ordered “omakase,”.
Just be sure you pronounce that right, otherwise you’re in for 90 minutes of tentacle rape.
That second question mark makes sense if you read that aloud with a New Zealand accent.
Fuck it, I’m wicked hung over from my B-day celebrations last night and just got to work 30 min ago. MLIFU
I think they were doing it on porpoise
did I make that joke before? blow me.
Last week, an African-American gentleman wearing Groucho glasses walked into the establishment. When offered a table he said, “I’m terribly sorry. I incorrectly believed this to be the Humpty Hump.”
I ate an eight of psihoyos mushrooms at a Phish concert and tripped baaaalllllzzzzz.
“…Helps Bust Restaurant…”
Hooters?
Do they sell spotted owl at Hooters?
They serve up a lot of whale tail at Hooters.
I don’t think they serve whale all the time at that place, I believe this was just a fluke.
Eh? How about;
Yamamato should surely serve time in jail for his breech of the law.
Yamamoto recently bought his wife a minke coat.
Cant any of you tell a Korean from Japanese? Japanese eat wales and dolphins,
Koreans eat dogs.
I thought Japanese eat Wales, and Koreans eat Scotland.
Fuck me, I sure am a dope.