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UPDATED : Shark Attacks Swimmer Near Manhattan Beach Pier
Culver City Patch ^ | 7/5/2014 | Penny Arevalo

Posted on 07/05/2014 8:41:21 PM PDT by wonkowasright

A 7-foot-long shark attacked a swimmer Saturday at Manhattan Beach, causing serious injury and prompting authorities to use helicopters and boats to evacuate throngs of people taking to the water on a busy 4th of July holiday weekend.

The incident happened about 9:30 Saturday morning, said photographer Eric Hartman, who saw the victim carried from a lifeguard vehicle on a backboard into an ambulance near the first lifeguard station south of the Manhattan Pier.

(Excerpt) Read more at culvercity.patch.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: sharks; whitesharks
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At the link the details emerge that also fishing from this beach was a guy who catches sharks. So you had a guy fishing for sharks in the water at the swimming beach. He hooked on. It got honked off and chomped some poor swimmer.

Oy

1 posted on 07/05/2014 8:41:21 PM PDT by wonkowasright
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They’ll be able to ID the shark from the graffiti spraypainted on it.


2 posted on 07/05/2014 8:44:10 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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They’ll be able to ID the shark from the graffiti spraypainted on it.


3 posted on 07/05/2014 8:44:10 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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how in the world did that double post


4 posted on 07/05/2014 8:44:31 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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5 posted on 07/05/2014 8:45:43 PM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife

The important thing is: they delivered the bomb.


6 posted on 07/05/2014 8:47:10 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: wonkowasright

Mackie’s back in town.


7 posted on 07/05/2014 8:48:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL!


8 posted on 07/05/2014 8:48:32 PM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife

There were lasers on its head!


9 posted on 07/05/2014 8:49:46 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: wonkowasright

California’s idiot legislature passed a shark protection act

Result: more sharks, meaner sharks

Libs celebrate


10 posted on 07/05/2014 8:50:31 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Lakeshark; derllak; Darksheare

Sharky.... You were supposed to bite a few of the illegals, not a poor American swimmer...

My brother just went by the beach and said there are a lot of people, but no one in the water.


11 posted on 07/05/2014 8:50:36 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: GeronL

It was worth posting twice. LOL!


12 posted on 07/05/2014 8:53:52 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: GeronL

Oh Noz!!!

13 posted on 07/05/2014 8:54:00 PM PDT by mylife
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14 posted on 07/05/2014 8:59:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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I’d be interested to know the species of the shark. Blue sharks grow to about that size, and they’ve been known to attack humans, but such attacks are rare.


15 posted on 07/05/2014 9:00:05 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Borax Queen; Lakeshark; derllak

Guy was probably listening to rap.
That’d do it.


16 posted on 07/05/2014 9:14:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: wonkowasright

When I go to the zoo, I make sure there is a fence between me and the animals. When I go to the ocean, I make sure there is a boat between me and the animals.


17 posted on 07/05/2014 9:18:08 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: Darksheare

HA!


18 posted on 07/05/2014 9:20:08 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Fiji Hill

Other reports said it was a great white.


19 posted on 07/05/2014 9:35:15 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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prompting authorities to use helicopters and boats to evacuate throngs of people taking to the water

Well don't that just take the cake. We're evacuating people with choppers because of a shark. Every beach I've ever visited, yelling "SHARK!" would suffice to send everyone screaming out of the water.

Are these New Yorkers extraordinarily thickheaded, or do they just not understand English?

20 posted on 07/05/2014 9:35:30 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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