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A 350 pound sea lion has been rescued by California Highway Patrol today. Public Officials have named him CHiPpy after the CHP because that's the kind of cheeky stuff we pay them for.

Anyway, the poor beast had a bullet in his head that theoretically messed up his inner compass and caused him to follow the San Joaquin river upstream. He then apparently got lost in a complex series of canals that run from the river to the farm land in that area.

The most amazing part of this story though is that he lumbered almost a mile over dry land before he was discovered.

He has been dubbed healthy and a fund has even been started to help cover the medical expenses. I guess this way he won't have to mortgage his home or something drastic like that.

How exactly does a Sea lion get a bullet to the head?

Well, it‘s possible he was fleeing a crime scene. I did some googling to try and figure out why someone would shoot a sea lion and it turns out that fishermen shoot them all the time because they follow fishing vessels and eat their catches before they real them in.
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