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Mother beat shark with camera [with one arm holding her kid]
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21753750-2,00.html ^
| May 18, 2007 04:10pm
| By Liza Kappelle
Posted on 05/18/2007 7:12:10 AM PDT by Grig
A WOMAN who was attacked by a shark on a West Australian reef says all she could think of was beating it off before it could savage her teenage son wading alongside or the three-year-old on her hip.
Mother-of-five Becky Cooke, 38, had her heel and calf lacerated by the 2.5 metre shark as she waded across a coral reef with two of her sons at remote Warra Beach, south of Coral Bay, on Wednesday.
From her bed in Royal Perth Hospital today she described how scared she had been when she realised she had been bitten and more sharks could be attracted by her spreading blood...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat
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posted on
05/18/2007 7:12:11 AM PDT
by
Grig
To: Grig
Did she get a picture of it?
2
posted on
05/18/2007 7:13:00 AM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Grig
A WOMAN who was attacked by a shark on a West Australian reef says all she could think of was beating it off
(holding in laugh..)
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posted on
05/18/2007 7:17:24 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
(Giggety,Giggety,Giggety)
To: GQuagmire
She could have just jumped it.
To: GQuagmire
*whew*
I thought I was the only one.
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posted on
05/18/2007 7:20:50 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
To: GQuagmire
It was a shark, not a sperm whale.
To: Salamander
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posted on
05/18/2007 7:31:53 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
(Giggety,Giggety,Giggety)
To: GQuagmire
You mean perverted minds. :)
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posted on
05/18/2007 7:36:52 AM PDT
by
Michael_Michaelangelo
(The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.)
To: GQuagmire
I bet that shark will tell all of the other sharks. He will be the envy of the seas!
To: GQuagmire
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posted on
05/18/2007 8:07:40 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
You say that like it’s a *bad* thing....:-P
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posted on
05/18/2007 8:08:23 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
To: Salamander; Michael_Michaelangelo
Now I regret starting this thread, thanks to you guys.
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posted on
05/18/2007 8:18:04 AM PDT
by
Grig
To: Grig; Salamander; Michael_Michaelangelo
I guess it’s a distinctly AMERICAN joke, for those whose sense of humor hasn’t been preemptively removed by socialized medicine.
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posted on
05/18/2007 9:13:17 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
To: Grig
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