Otter 841
July 20, 2023 7:08 PM Subscribe
Her name is 841. She is a sea otter. Her attacks on surfboards are escalating. She has so far managed to evade capture. Her popularity is growing.
I am here
To remind you
Of the waves I caught when you went away
It's not fair
To remind me
Of the board I bear that you gave to me
You otter otter
Otter know
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:25 PM on July 20, 2023 [90 favorites]
To remind you
Of the waves I caught when you went away
It's not fair
To remind me
Of the board I bear that you gave to me
You otter otter
Otter know
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:25 PM on July 20, 2023 [90 favorites]
"Otter Eight Four One" is a drop-in replacement for "two four six oh one", just putting that out there.
posted by mhoye at 7:27 PM on July 20, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by mhoye at 7:27 PM on July 20, 2023 [10 favorites]
She just wants to catch some tasty waves, bro...
But, what a bummer, she's not going to be allowed to live in the wild. If she isn't euthanized...
posted by Windopaene at 7:28 PM on July 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
But, what a bummer, she's not going to be allowed to live in the wild. If she isn't euthanized...
posted by Windopaene at 7:28 PM on July 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
She's not a number, she is a free (sea?) otter!
posted by Pink Frost at 7:49 PM on July 20, 2023 [16 favorites]
posted by Pink Frost at 7:49 PM on July 20, 2023 [16 favorites]
Haven't been going this hard for #TeamOtter since the river otter snacked on a garden full of very expensive koi in Vancouver.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:51 PM on July 20, 2023 [15 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 7:51 PM on July 20, 2023 [15 favorites]
Otters were there first.
Just sayin’.
posted by Capt. Renault at 7:58 PM on July 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
Just sayin’.
posted by Capt. Renault at 7:58 PM on July 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
How many has she eaten? Let me know when she gets to 41.
posted by vrakatar at 8:10 PM on July 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by vrakatar at 8:10 PM on July 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
Wait, has anyone seen The Otter Lady recently?
posted by loquacious at 9:46 PM on July 20, 2023 [12 favorites]
posted by loquacious at 9:46 PM on July 20, 2023 [12 favorites]
Otter be a law
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:51 PM on July 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:51 PM on July 20, 2023 [2 favorites]
My cat is an asshole. Otter 841 is an asshole. Orcas is the Med are assholes. I blame someone, probably Trump for making all the animals assholes.
posted by Keith Talent at 10:18 PM on July 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by Keith Talent at 10:18 PM on July 20, 2023 [4 favorites]
I can’t stop thinking about Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3 and that this is Lylla. Which makes me smile and wrecks me.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 10:33 PM on July 20, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 10:33 PM on July 20, 2023 [5 favorites]
If we have a right to arm bears, we ought to have a right to arm otters. I'm down for making sure this otter has the resources to make any requests it desires.
posted by CrystalDave at 10:59 PM on July 20, 2023
posted by CrystalDave at 10:59 PM on July 20, 2023
She escaped to the Los Angeles underground. If you have a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find her...
posted by praemunire at 11:21 PM on July 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by praemunire at 11:21 PM on July 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
I guess closing the beach to surfers and swimmers isn't a temporary option? If the otter bites someone, she gets euthanized. I hope that doesn't happen.
posted by AnyUsernameWillDo at 1:13 AM on July 21, 2023
posted by AnyUsernameWillDo at 1:13 AM on July 21, 2023
Welcome Back Otter
posted by chavenet at 2:41 AM on July 21, 2023 [9 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 2:41 AM on July 21, 2023 [9 favorites]
I can't believe they didn't name her Localsonly
posted by NoMich at 4:19 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by NoMich at 4:19 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
If the otter bites someone, she gets euthanized.
From the LATimes Article linked above: McConnell said even if 841 bites someone, they will not euthanize her.
posted by Toddles at 5:16 AM on July 21, 2023 [7 favorites]
From the LATimes Article linked above: McConnell said even if 841 bites someone, they will not euthanize her.
posted by Toddles at 5:16 AM on July 21, 2023 [7 favorites]
They were angry with the man
Cause he'd changed their way of life
And they take their sweet revenge
As they trample through the night
For a hundred miles or more
You could hear the people cry
But there is nothing you can do
Even God is on their side
Supernature, supernature
Supernature, supernature
posted by papercake at 5:37 AM on July 21, 2023
Cause he'd changed their way of life
And they take their sweet revenge
As they trample through the night
For a hundred miles or more
You could hear the people cry
But there is nothing you can do
Even God is on their side
Supernature, supernature
Supernature, supernature
posted by papercake at 5:37 AM on July 21, 2023
god forbid women do anything
posted by Kitteh at 5:39 AM on July 21, 2023 [11 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 5:39 AM on July 21, 2023 [11 favorites]
Grand Theft Otter: Become Ungovernable
posted by vim876 at 6:38 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by vim876 at 6:38 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
I can neither confirm nor deny
posted by The otter lady at 6:53 AM on July 21, 2023 [25 favorites]
posted by The otter lady at 6:53 AM on July 21, 2023 [25 favorites]
They ought to be more careful
They're setting a bad example
posted by Meatbomb at 7:02 AM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
They're setting a bad example
posted by Meatbomb at 7:02 AM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
Koan ninety-seven: "Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you."posted by mikelieman at 7:03 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
"And I, for one, welcome our new sea mammal overlords." - Kent Brockman (eventually)
posted by tommasz at 7:09 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by tommasz at 7:09 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
New SyFy Channel Creature Feature title: OTTERDAMMERUNG
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:13 AM on July 21, 2023 [11 favorites]
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:13 AM on July 21, 2023 [11 favorites]
My cat is an asshole. Otter 841 is an asshole. Orcas is the Med are assholes. I blame someone, probably Trump for making all the animals assholes.
These are are all beautiful animals that my heart is full of love for, even though said cat is not pictured I am sure they are very good.
posted by Artw at 7:27 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
These are are all beautiful animals that my heart is full of love for, even though said cat is not pictured I am sure they are very good.
posted by Artw at 7:27 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
Sorry, she just wanted it more.
#TeamOtter
posted by Dark Messiah at 8:09 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
#TeamOtter
posted by Dark Messiah at 8:09 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
Otter be starting somthing
posted by emelenjr at 8:13 AM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by emelenjr at 8:13 AM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
The case against otters. necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea
posted by 1970s Antihero at 8:23 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by 1970s Antihero at 8:23 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
Final Fantasy XIV has several "minions" that players can acquire, little whatsits that follow you around. So far, we have the Odder Otter, the Abroader Otter, and the Posher Otter. Here's hoping they add a new one with a surfboard.
posted by xedrik at 8:42 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by xedrik at 8:42 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
Don't
Be
A
Cop
To
Otters
Slow, slack human surfing in the sea!
Slow, slack human can’t see me!
Ottercop! Ottercop!
Won't you drop,
Drop your surfboard and give to me?
posted by xigxag at 8:59 AM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
Be
A
Cop
To
Otters
Slow, slack human surfing in the sea!
Slow, slack human can’t see me!
Ottercop! Ottercop!
Won't you drop,
Drop your surfboard and give to me?
posted by xigxag at 8:59 AM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop...ever, until you are dead!
posted by kirkaracha at 9:13 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by kirkaracha at 9:13 AM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
First the orcas, then the otters.
And always the owls.
posted by y2karl at 9:15 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
And always the owls.
posted by y2karl at 9:15 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
And it absolutely will not stop...ever, until you are dead!
Well given 1970s Antihero's link, maybe not even then!
posted by Carillon at 9:43 AM on July 21, 2023
Well given 1970s Antihero's link, maybe not even then!
posted by Carillon at 9:43 AM on July 21, 2023
Fiasco da Gama: “ She has so far managed to evade capture.”The L.A. Times piece from a couple of weeks back had a twist that Rusty at Today in Tabs said made him gasp.
“A renegade sea otter is terrorizing California surfers: ‘It’s a little scary,’” Susanne Rust, The L.A. Times, 12 July 2023
posted by ob1quixote at 10:10 AM on July 21, 2023
The case against otters. necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea
Gonna rec Usula Vernon/T Kingfishers “The Hollow Places” here.
posted by Artw at 10:20 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
Gonna rec Usula Vernon/T Kingfishers “The Hollow Places” here.
posted by Artw at 10:20 AM on July 21, 2023 [1 favorite]
Please do yourself a favour and read the post description as through it were the VO intro from an 80s sci fi film, and then play "Invincible" by Pat Benatar.
(Several posts in this thread also work well for this, great job everyone. I am so proud of what wonderfully silly people you are.)
posted by seraphine at 11:17 AM on July 21, 2023
(Several posts in this thread also work well for this, great job everyone. I am so proud of what wonderfully silly people you are.)
posted by seraphine at 11:17 AM on July 21, 2023
They otter leave it alone.
posted by indianbadger1 at 12:37 PM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by indianbadger1 at 12:37 PM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
they otter leave it alone indeed! I have a hard time with the outrage some will express against animals defending their own territory. don't want to get rammed by an orca? keep your damn yachts away. don't want to get mugged by an otter? stay out of their neighborhood. they don't owe us surfing. (and they're heckin' cute)
posted by supermedusa at 12:59 PM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 12:59 PM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
"There's a simple reason why authorities can't find Otter 841 — she's really good at not being caught."
That's some hard-hitting journalism right there.
posted by hydra77 at 3:53 PM on July 21, 2023 [4 favorites]
That's some hard-hitting journalism right there.
posted by hydra77 at 3:53 PM on July 21, 2023 [4 favorites]
a twist that Rusty at Today in Tabs said made him gasp
Uh.....was it this?
Woodward was standing on the bluff by a lighthouse, photographing a Black Santa surf event off Cowell Beach, when he saw a hefty sea otter torpedo toward a surfboard, wrest it from the startled surfer, and then catch a few solo waves.
posted by polecat at 4:49 PM on July 21, 2023
Uh.....was it this?
Woodward was standing on the bluff by a lighthouse, photographing a Black Santa surf event off Cowell Beach, when he saw a hefty sea otter torpedo toward a surfboard, wrest it from the startled surfer, and then catch a few solo waves.
posted by polecat at 4:49 PM on July 21, 2023
WHO YOU CALLIN HEFTY
posted by The otter lady at 6:46 PM on July 21, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by The otter lady at 6:46 PM on July 21, 2023 [10 favorites]
Otters 1 through 840 never developed the powers that we have seen in Otter 841. Stay tuned for the season finale of "Otter Things."
posted by perhapses at 8:05 PM on July 21, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by perhapses at 8:05 PM on July 21, 2023 [5 favorites]
In Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) applied the dialectic of intersubjectivity to describe how the world is altered by the appearance of the Otter, of how the world then appears to be oriented to the Otter and not to the Self.
posted by sebastienbailard at 8:39 PM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by sebastienbailard at 8:39 PM on July 21, 2023 [3 favorites]
polecat: “Uh.....was it this?”I presumed it was this:
Five years ago, there was an otter in Monterey Bay that approached kayaks. That otter, Fujii said, had probably been fed illegally by people — a common trigger for this kind of aggressive behavior.posted by ob1quixote at 8:44 PM on July 21, 2023 [2 favorites]
Sadly, that otter had to be trapped.
But here’s where things get a little weird: When researchers got it in for observation, they realized it was pregnant. She gave birth. And that pup — which they tagged and have followed since they released her into the wild — is now the surfboard thief.
Because the pup was raised in captivity, she could not have learned the behavior from her mother, Fujii said
🦦
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 1:28 AM on July 22, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 1:28 AM on July 22, 2023 [2 favorites]
And that pup — which they tagged and have followed since they released her into the wild — is now the surfboard thief.
*gasp* The Prophecy!
posted by The otter lady at 7:32 AM on July 22, 2023 [7 favorites]
*gasp* The Prophecy!
posted by The otter lady at 7:32 AM on July 22, 2023 [7 favorites]
🏊 🦦 🏄
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 3:12 PM on July 22, 2023
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 3:12 PM on July 22, 2023
Otters 842-926 are watching, learning, training. Be afraid.
posted by otters walk among us at 7:54 PM on July 22, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by otters walk among us at 7:54 PM on July 22, 2023 [4 favorites]
“She’s certainly a clever one,” Otter 841 still roaming free as Fish & Wildlife struggles to capture her
posted by ActingTheGoat at 9:03 AM on August 15, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by ActingTheGoat at 9:03 AM on August 15, 2023 [4 favorites]
Just noticed that "Otter 841" is a perfect substitute for "24601." Somebody get on that.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 7:22 PM on August 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 7:22 PM on August 15, 2023 [1 favorite]
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