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Jessica Alba caught shark sniping
Uh oh. The A-list star gets caught red-handed posting the 'White Mike' shark.
Wed, Jun 10 2009 at 12:20 AM
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Via: The Lost Ogle Blog
It's hard to imagine that the words "Jessica Alba," "Sharks" and "Oklahoma" would ever appear in the same sentence, but it is true.
Yesterday, a local Oklahoma blog The Lost Ogle published photos of the A-list celebrity pasting an image of the now famous "White Mike" shark on several abandoned looking surfaces.
As I blogged a while back, White Mike is an interesting viral campaign to raise awareness about illegal shark fin hunting. Unfortunately Alba got caught on camera. Wheat pasting is not technically "defacing" (because the poster can be washed off) and there have been no charges pressed.
At first I wondered if Alba might also be behind the appearance of the White Mike posters in LA, DC and Atlanta but I received a message via White Mike's Twitter in response to my tweet question, saying that she was not.
TMZ picked up the story and ridiculed the star for her efforts to publicize sharks in a land-locked city. But today, the mystery people behind White Mike issued a press release. I'm just going to repost it here because it is well-written and describes why Oklahoma was the selected location:
To the people of Oklahoma City…Some have asked why these images of the Great White Shark were posted in Oklahoma, a place far away from the slaughtering waters off Ecuador’s Galapagos or the booming shark fin markets of Hong Kong. The reason is that illegal shark fin hunting effects the people of Oklahoma. It affects us all.
As the apex predator of the oceans, sharks have evolved over millions of years to manage the immensely complex and fragile ecosystems of the ocean kingdom. The largest study ever done on marine ecosystems has proven that when sharks disappear a deadly domino effect is triggered in the food chain, ultimately resulting in the collapse of the coral reefs, the spawning ground for the fish we (and other species) depend upon..
With the growing demand for shark fins, shark populations have been decimated. By some estimates, over 90% of the shark population has been lost in the last 30 years. This year an estimated 100 million sharks will be killed, a mortality rate which will almost certainly end in the extinction of the species.There is a dire need for us as a human race to try and stop the devastation of the Great White Shark. International pressure is the only way to do it and that starts in Oklahoma, the heartland of America.
Related links:
• Support the Humane Society International Campaign
• Read about shark fin hunting
• Read a first-hand account from the filmmaker of Sharkwater
• The Scripps Institute of Oceanography study
• The Scripps Institute of Oceanography study
Note: None of the above organizations are related to the poster campaign.
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So Alba covered up a poster for the United Way? A non-profit that helps kids and families?
Please, please, please - this is why TV and movie starts should never be allowed to have a voice. The ratio of influence they wield is grossly disproportionate to their IQ and judgment.
I'm curious to hear how you'd pull off the "never be allowed to have a voice" part. I agree that many are stupid and have way too much influence, but what are you gonna do? And a lot of the celebs, well, even if it's not for a cause, it's stupid. For example, Pimp My Ride.
You're wrong about two things: according to OK newspapers, the sites were not abandoned (they were billboard and utility equipment), and the posters could not be removed by washing off. Alba has admitted she was involved, apologized: "I realize that I should have used better judgment, and I regret not thinking things through before I made a spontaneous and ill-advised decision to let myself get involved with the people behind this campaign."