PLANK-WALK PLANNED

The Sea Shepherd loonies, who have been boasting about their plans to ram Japanese whaling vessels, are begging for outside intervention:

Sea Shepherd is calling for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to lay kidnapping charges, as crew on a Japanese whaling vessel in Antarctic waters detain two of the marine conservation group's activists.

The whalers say the two activists were being held in an office aboard the ship, and accused them of throwing acid onto the ship's decks.

"It is illegal to board another country's vessels on the high seas," said the director general of the Institute of Cetacean Research, Minoru Morimoto.

"As a result, at this stage, they are being held in custody while decisions are made on their future."

Go take them back, you pussies.

Update: The Age's headline and teaser:

Whale activists 'captured'
Australian and Briton activists taken hostage in the Southern Ocean.

Quotes around captured but not around taken hostage; nah, it's not like they're taking sides. Actually, since The Age reckons it's war down in the souther ocean, these guys are prisoners of war. Uh oh, remember what happened the last time Japan had Australian and British POWs? Fortunately there are no railways under construction.

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