What these teenagers did was insensitive and wrong, but I don’t understand why you would get fined for approaching a dead whale:
Teenagers who posted Facebook pictures of themselves playing on a 12-metre whale carcass at Warrnambool in Victoria have been threatened with a $32,000 fine.
The images were published in the local newspaper, The Standard, today.
Department of Sustainability and Environment spokeswoman Mandy Watson told The Standard interfering with a whale, dead or alive, could attract hefty penalties.
“It is also an offence to approach within 300 metres,” Ms Watson said.
The department has warned that anyone who approached or tampered with the carcass faced up to $32,000 and jail time.
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