Posted on 02/06/2023 7:09:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is now recommending charges against the man accused of beating a shark with a hammer.
A FWC spokesman confirmed its recommendation to News 6 Thursday afternoon. The agency has not yet said what charges the man could face, but a news release from FWC is expected sometime on Thursday.
News 6 has reached out to the state attorney’s office to see if prosecutors have decided to pursue charges against the man. We are still waiting to hear back. News 6 has decided not to identify the man accused of the shark beating because he has not been arrested.
This comes more than a month after a man was caught on camera appearing to hit a shark in the head with a hammer repeatedly. The attack happened on Dec. 20 at Bicentennial Beach Park, according to Indian Harbour Police Department.
According to the department, two men were fishing when the shark was brought to shore. Video from Harbour House Oceanfront’s 24/7 live surf cam shows one of the men hitting it on the head multiple times with a hammer.
The video then shows one of the men trying to release the shark back into the ocean and dragging it into the water.
This incident comes months after FWC investigated two men dragging a shark across the New Smyrna Beach shore and stabbing it in the head. However, officials said this was legal.
“It is common practice for anglers to euthanize sharks after landing for ethical and safety concerns. This video is not currently under investigation as no violation of state law regarding the method of harvest occurred,” FWC officials said in a statement in August.
Hammerhead shark.
D*mn, beat again! Curses.
Even as small as our use base has become, you have to be *quick* around here!
Especially on low hanging fruit like that.
What was he supposed to do wit da shark, little goil? Trow it out da winder?
This guy jumped the shark.
Florida is never going to run out of dumbasses, nor is it ever going to run out of sharks. Let’s just call it mutual combat and set up another round, but this time let the shark have the hammer.
Isiah 5:20; Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
“Florida is never going to run out of dumbasses,”
At least we don’t send them to D.C.
Shark is good eating an d they are deceptively easy to gut and clean. Guts almost fall out. Skin peels right off. One simple cartilage down the center and that is it. No bones. Meat is very tender and tasty.
Did it have lasers attached to its head.
Why don’t sharks attack laywers?
Professional courtesy.
The Word of God is HARD HITTING, and always shines the light of truth!
Thank you for your post!
Just about everyone I know who fished saltwater kept a tire knocker in the boat just for sharks if they were being kept for meat. Most any other fish when landed in a boat will flop around and such but a shark will look at you with those big black eyes and try and attack you even when out of water in the bottom of the boat.
Did the shark owe him money?
No, it just looked like Paul Pelosi
Stupid writing. If they state that the video shows a man beating the shark in the head, and the tape is legit, then it does not APPEAR that somebody is doing something to some thing. He is beating the shark. Period. End of Story.
7. Oh, you mean you want a Hammerhead shark. Fair enough.
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