Posted on 12/17/2004 8:25:22 PM PST by Mongeaux
TWO Great White sharks ripped a schoolboy surfer in two off a packed beach yesterday.
Nick Peterson, 18, was being towed on his surfboard behind his grandmother's dinghy when a shark began attacking the boat.
His three friends in the boat, all aged 16, tried to beat the shark away with paddles but Nick fell in.
Seconds later the 16ft shark dragged him around the boat by an arm, then under it, before tearing him in half.
A second shark then joined in the frenzy.
.50 cal Barretts should do quite nicely for plinking
large White Pointers. Can they be used from choppers?
Have the Auzzies got the stones for that?
He met a grizzy death but his three friends are going to relive this for years. Sad.
And we thought "Jaws" was scary!
Not funny.
Period.
How warped. Is this supposed to be a joke?
His grandmother saw it too? OMG. I cannot imagine the agony.
IMHO, you should put whatever you're drinking or smoking down and log off for a little while..
ROTFLMAO
Well, I am drinking wine...but not gonna stop cause you said so. This happened in Australia....great whites are known to attack in these waters....and they went out with a kid on a line? They were shark teasing...and lost. Never ever tease a shark....they are like you...no sense of humor at all.
I knew a Marine would laugh!
If that is supposed to be a joke, it is a very bad one.
And you'll love this:
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief, the sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes,like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosons mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Oh...I have made worse...believe me.
I'm sorry the kid died and all, but common sense tells me not to go out in shark infested waters looking like a sea lion!
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