Sea lions are not afraid of #fakeorca

How many sea lions are too many sea lions? Whatever the answer, Astoria, Ore., has reached that number.

Sea lions have taken over local boat docks in the town. They're eating all the fish, preventing people from reaching their boats, and leaving behind 10 to 30 pounds of sea lion poop a day.

As we know, desperate times call for desperate measures.  So the town brought in a 32-foot fiberglass orca.

The owner of a nearby whale-watching business donated the former parade float, which looks like an orca, or killer whale. Everyone was hoping that the float, which resembles the sea lions’ natural predator, would intimidate the pesky critters.
 
Not so much.

Instead of creating killer whale terror, the whale flipped over, filled with water and nearly sank.

No sea lions were scared, and no sea lions left.

But #fakeOrca took off on Twitter when national news got hold of the story.

Failure is not an option for the town, however. It plans to try the scare tactic again in August — once the fake orca dries out.