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California surfer killed in shark attack may have been mistaken for prey, experts say
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| 10/24/2012
Posted on 10/24/2012 6:41:45 PM PDT by youngidiot
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Well, I guess we could put underwater signs creating Shark Crossings, so they will read them and stay away from human inhabited areas.
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Taking off on a thread about a woman and deer crossing signs...
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posted on
10/24/2012 6:57:22 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: youngidiot
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posted on
10/24/2012 6:58:09 PM PDT
by
al baby
(“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
To: skeeter; GeronL
This is common with the idiotic "experts" when it comes to sharks. Someone could get bitten in half and these idiots would be right there on the shore waving and screaming, "HEY, It's not the sharks fault!!! He thought you were a seal!!!"
As if that would make a damn to someone who's watching their own intestines float off.
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posted on
10/24/2012 6:58:57 PM PDT
by
youngidiot
(He's got Mad Cow. She's living with him in the White House.)
To: youngidiot
California = cold water
cold water = wear wet suit
wet suit = looks like seal
seal = dinner
To: GeronL
LOL! I’m still trying decide if that woman was being sincere or if it was a put on. They should have asked her if she supports Obama and then I’d know for sure.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:00:05 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Big Bird, Binders, Horses and Bayonets! Sorry, that is all we have to offer! - the DNC)
To: Mortrey
Sharks like to eat surfers. Actually, they don't. Which is why they usually spit them out. If that shark really wanted to eat him, it would have. It was just taking a "taste" of him, then spit him and the neoprene out.
Unfortunately for this man, he got "tasted" right in the chest.
Surfers look and move just like sea lions from below in certain light.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:01:00 PM PDT
by
ponygirl
(Be Breitbart.)
To: youngidiot
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:02:56 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
To: youngidiot
There's no other species that regularly occurs off of California that could inflict that kind of injury So, they've ruled out man-eating shrimp?
To: youngidiot
Stupidest reporter I’ve read today. Maybe we can charge the shark with negligent homicide?
To: youngidiot
It's the Republican's / George W. Bush's fault.
That surfer was most likely a Democrat voter.
The Tea Party was probably involved too.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:09:55 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: youngidiot; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Yes, it was a case of mistaken identity, and the shark apologized at the
end!
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:10:05 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: youngidiot
“Mistaken” for prey? The white shark is also called the man-eater shark, so if the fish in question was a white shark, he was making no mistake.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:11:15 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: FlingWingFlyer
"...if she supports Obama and then Id know for sure."
Of course she does! If she is dumb enough to make this kind of assertion, she's more than dumb enough to be an Obama supporter.
8^)
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:12:06 PM PDT
by
Ron C.
To: youngidiot
“I don’t see why the shark’s thoughts were relevant.”
They weren’t. And it also doesn’t matter if it was, or was not a mistake. A GW Shark is equipped to efficiently kill and dismember anything in the water. Humans are a fragile species ill-adapted to the water. A GW can ‘mouth’ you for a second or 2 to figure out what you are and you are going to probably bleed out as a result.
Another favorite GW hunting tactic is the “mobility kill” where the shark strikes hard and fast with the intent of stunning it’s prey and shearing off a fin or flipper. If that is a surfers leg... another dead surfer.
The fact that so many surfers are now surviving (due to amazing emergency medical assistance) is giving rise to speculation that “the Shark didn’t mean it.” We have no clue what “the Shark means”. It’s a really strange consequence of modern science arriving at totally unsupportable conclusions.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: youngidiot
When I first heard this story, I thought the culprit might have been a blue shark, a species found off California, but these are much smaller than white sharks and wouldn’t have taken such a big bite.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:16:45 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Fiji Hill
Blue sharks are off CA’s coast, but the seldom come close to shore.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:18:00 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: youngidiot
California surfer killed in shark attack may have been mistaken for prey, experts say Surely that title calls for a Captain Obvious graphic...
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:19:27 PM PDT
by
sargon
To: youngidiot
Shark eats surfer? What's next, dog bites man?
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:22:19 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Ron C.
I’m starting to think this might be why seals don’t surf. I might have to have an expert check it out.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:23:31 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Big Bird, Binders, Horses and Bayonets! Sorry, that is all we have to offer! - the DNC)
To: skeeter
Blue sharks are off CAs coast, but the seldom come close to shore. I once saw one caught. We were fishing for sharks off Orange County, using mackerel for bait--and yes, this was several miles out at sea.
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posted on
10/24/2012 7:24:37 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
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