Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
Didn’t he get harpooned by Captain Ahab?
A common misconception. Ahab was drinking a lot in those days, and the harpooning was actually a #3 treble hook with which he nabbed Wale's third distant cousin, Trout. More of a fish story.
Trout, it seems, was under the legal limit, and Ahab did a turn in the county clink for assaulting a minor, and now lives mostly anonymously, and drunk, under the nom de plum, "Feesh," while on the fish offender registry for life.
Very sad story.
He never flies American, though.