Jackass-style shark stunt goes horribly wrong Posted on 01/14/2014 6:20:57 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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.
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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.
Gee, Shaun, I’m very sorry you are stupid. It must be a burden on those of average or better intelligence around you.
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.
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.
Is birdcage on a head kind of like a pancake on a bunny?
GoPro - we encourage dumbasses to prove it!!
I think so!
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)
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.
IIRC, Shaw was also a writer, and wrote many of the lines himself.
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."
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.
He was great as the Russian assassin in From Russia with Love.
You’re right.
It was swimmin’, too.
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