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Jackass-Style Shark Stunt Goes Horribly Wrong
New York Post ^ | January 14, 2014 | Greg Stolz

Posted on 01/14/2014 6:20:57 PM PST by DogByte6RER

tiger shark photo: tiger shark tiger_shark.jpg Jackass-style shark stunt goes horribly wrong

It was a Jackass-style stunt that nearly turned around and bit Australian adrenalin junkie Shaun Harrington – or rather mauled him.

Harrington, 27, and fellow forever-clowning twin brother Dean decided to go “cage diving” with sharks off the Gold Coast, which is Australia’s answer to Miami, last weekend for an extreme video shoot for their surfing and fishing clothing label, fittingly called The Mad Hueys.

But the cage wasn’t the jaws-proof reinforced steel type typically used by shark divers – it was a flimsy $50 bird cage Shaun planned to put on his head.

Not surprisingly, things turned awry when an eight-foot-long tiger shark caught by a professional fisherman lunged at Harrington after he jumped into the ocean off with only the bird cage for protection.

Yelling in terror, he was forced to use the cage to fend off the shark and scramble back onto the boat.

“It was heavy – its scared the s–t out of me and I thought I was a goner,” Harrington said yesterday.

“We were just having fun but it turned crazy.”

Harrington said his brother surprised him by telling him they were going on a “B-grade shark fishing tour.”

“He pulled out the bird cage and told me ‘this is the cage we’re going to use and we’re going out there to find a shark,’” he said.

“I said ‘no way!’ but we were out there and the first line our mate pulled up had an eight-foot tiger shark on it still thrashing around.

“I jumped into the water and was swimming with the cage and the next thing I knew, the bloody thing was coming at me.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: assclown; australia; jackass; shark; tigershark
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To: Vince Ferrer

21 posted on 01/14/2014 7:12:52 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
I watched the making of Jaws on Discovery channel and they say that say that Shaw was three sheets to the wind much of the time. The other actors didn't know if he would make it through the scene.
22 posted on 01/14/2014 7:57:52 PM PST by peeps36 (I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags of All Colors)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
Wonder if they had Darwin Insurance....you know, the insurance designed to make your stupidity profitable for relatives and friends.

In any case they moved into contention for the top Darwin award (awarded to those people who have managed to turn back evolution) of 2014.

23 posted on 01/14/2014 8:01:02 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Gee, Shaun, I’m very sorry you are stupid. It must be a burden on those of average or better intelligence around you.


24 posted on 01/14/2014 8:09:12 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: DogByte6RER

I think you mean bow-legged women...as in the notoriously bawdy popular song from many years past which I won’t repeat here for the sake of decency.


25 posted on 01/14/2014 8:09:42 PM PST by driftless2
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To: DogByte6RER

"...Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water, shark's in the water, our shark? Fairwell and ado to u fair Spanish ladies, fairwell and ado u ladies of Spain...."
26 posted on 01/14/2014 8:16:08 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: Billthedrill

I had a chance (and privilege) to spend a few hours in conversation back in the early nineties with the man who was the ship’s doctor on the USS Indianapolis when she went down.

What struck me was he said he became a very religious man, but to that day so many years after the event, he couldn’t even say the Lord’s Prayer (because they had simply been saying it over and over again for days on end while in the water).

But what struck me even more was the intensity of his reaction nearly fifty years after the event. As he spoke, he became extremely emotional, his face became beet red, and he was extremely distressed. When I said “Please...don’t talk about it anymore” because I could see how upset he was, he insisted “No, I don’t talk about it much...never, really...”

I have seen emotional veterans, but the raw and powerful emotion was a shock to me.

Completely understandable, given his story.


27 posted on 01/14/2014 8:28:24 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Is birdcage on a head kind of like a pancake on a bunny?


28 posted on 01/14/2014 8:36:35 PM PST by Magnum44 (I have had just about enough)
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To: vladimir998

GoPro - we encourage dumbasses to prove it!!


29 posted on 01/14/2014 8:39:08 PM PST by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: Magnum44

I think so!


30 posted on 01/14/2014 8:56:31 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZhodPIXSyU

Top Ten Quin Quotes from Jaws. Includes the ones above. And it IS ‘bow-legged wimmin’ (misspelling intentional)


31 posted on 01/14/2014 9:31:16 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: rlmorel
"I have seen emotional veterans, but the raw and powerful emotion was a shock to me."

A few years ago I was talking to a WWII Vet. He had been a Machinist's Mate in the Navy. He was sent ashore to assist the Marines during the invasions to fix vehicles that were damaged. His face showed the strain and horror, and I knew he couldn't talk about it. I dropped the subject.

32 posted on 01/14/2014 9:36:28 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: bramps
...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

IIRC, Shaw was also a writer, and wrote many of the lines himself.

33 posted on 01/14/2014 9:40:38 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: bramps
...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

Found this on Wikipedia: "Benchley had written Jaws after reading about sport fisherman Frank Mundus's capture of an enormous shark in 1964. According to Gottlieb, Quint was loosely based on Mundus, whose book Sportfishing for Sharks he read for research."

34 posted on 01/14/2014 9:45:45 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: rlmorel

Spending almost a whole week floating around in the ocean while most of the men are eatten by sharks could done that to a man.


35 posted on 01/14/2014 11:51:58 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: DogByte6RER

36 posted on 01/15/2014 12:55:34 AM PST by stlnative
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To: Moonman62

He was great as the Russian assassin in From Russia with Love.


37 posted on 01/15/2014 3:43:18 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Mark17

You’re right.


38 posted on 01/15/2014 12:31:26 PM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: Mark17

It was swimmin’, too.


39 posted on 01/15/2014 2:31:12 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: windcliff; onedoug

Ping


40 posted on 01/15/2014 4:43:05 PM PST by stylecouncilor
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