SATIRE

Jerry the Clownfish and his next-door-neighbor Harold the Starfish, the two Great Barrier Reef Bandits, have recently been spotted near one the ocean’s hottest nightclubs – The Pink Pickled Pastel Coral – bleaching the vivid marine plant life once again. These bandits are responsible for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef decolorizing incidents in the past, and after a short break from their abysmal deeds, they’ve resurfaced, and have since “slain” the illustrious Great Barrier Reef.

According to Outside Magazine’s Great Barrier Reef obituary, the reef’s lifespan extended from 25 Million BC – 2016. However, scientists are desperately trying to inform the underwater community that this is simply an exaggeration – the reef is in serious trouble, but it is not beyond the point of help. Unfortunately, this abrupt tribute to the reef’s “death” has since ignited mutual horror around the marine community – the truth is being stretched across Australia because of spreading social media posts, and scientists fear the newly emerged protests against the Bandits will cause further conflict across the marine globe.

“I can’t believe it,” says Lucy the Flounder. “I’ve lived around the Great Barrier Reef for many years, and have even come face to face with the Barrier Reef Bandits myself once or twice – they bleached my home. I have since began a search-and-destroy-assembly to track down the bandits and stop them in their tracks before they bleach anymore underwater cities.”

According to Philly the Pufferfish, a local Great Barrier Reef scholar and marine scientist, this sort of ideology will erupt into a full-out war.

“If people like Lucy the Flounder continue these faulty protests, the Great Barrier Reef will be beyond saving. I realize the Barrier Reef Bandits are to blame, but this is why we fish have a law-and-order system. Leave it to the Damselfish Police to catch the bandits. We don’t want a war over something that is simple and, in fact, fabricated.”

Widespread demonstrations, however, have increased over the past three days.

“I will catch the bandits, and I’ll save the reef!” explains Larry the Seahorse, a reef protester.

It is apparent that although the reef is suffering, and a prominent social media presence has since fueled a “faulty” fire, it is not impossible to clean up the Barrier Reef Bandit’s mess.

This is satire (exaggeration/inflation) based on the following article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/us/barrier-reef-obit-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool