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Shark bites girl in half near beach on Indian Ocean island
FoxNews.com/AFP ^ | 7/16/2013

Posted on 07/16/2013 1:08:18 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

A teenage girl from France was killed in a shark attack while swimming off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, the fifth person to be killed by sharks on the island since 2011.

Local officials said the 15-year-old was attacked in the mid-afternoon while swimming just five metres from shore in the shallows of Saint-Paul bay on the western side of the island.

The teenager's body was sliced in two at the torso, and then "a part of her body was taken away by the shark", said Gina Hoarau, the head of public safety on the island.

The girl, who was named only as "Sarah" by French media, was swimming with another girl her age when the attack - just metres from a popular restaurant - happened.

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To: Nita Nupress

I stick to about knee deep. Being Irish, the beach isn’t the ideal place for me anyway.


21 posted on 07/16/2013 1:43:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RoosterRedux

I remember in the summer of 2001 shark attack stories were constant, especially in FL but CA too. There was an expressed and tangible sentiment emanating from the leftist media that it was our fault for swimming in their waters and we shouldn’t blame the sharks. After that summer 9/11 happened and the same media blamed the USA and not the terrorists for murdering over 3,000 Americans.


22 posted on 07/16/2013 1:45:36 PM PDT by kreitzer
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To: RoosterRedux

At least she couldn’t have lived too long which would be the only good side of the event...


23 posted on 07/16/2013 1:47:36 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Karliner

If i were you, i would live in Lebanon, Kansas, the geographic center of the United States. :-)


24 posted on 07/16/2013 1:48:58 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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To: EEGator
I live at the Jersey shore, site of the series of 1916 shark attacks that inspired the movie, "Jaws"

I've been afraid of the ocean since I found out where New York City dumps its sewage. I couldn't find the annual statistics, but a lot more probably die from infections contracted while swimming than die because of shark attacks.

25 posted on 07/16/2013 1:50:37 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: EEGator

Well, if the photo at the link is the spot where this happened, he’s knee-deep and about 5 meters from shore. lol.
It’s a file photo, so probably inaccurate.


26 posted on 07/16/2013 1:52:33 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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27 posted on 07/16/2013 1:54:21 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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28 posted on 07/16/2013 1:56:05 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sooth2222

Wonderful. We go to Avalon for beach vacations.


29 posted on 07/16/2013 1:56:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Nita Nupress; Karliner

Land Shark!

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2011/09/the-50-best-saturday-night-live-skits/land-shark


30 posted on 07/16/2013 1:56:51 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Not a shark story, but when I was about 10 at Jekyll Island I got stung by a jellyfish. Torso, front and back, two weeks of hell.

That kept me out of the ocean for quite a while.

31 posted on 07/16/2013 1:58:00 PM PDT by real saxophonist (If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unnecessary.)
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To: Nita Nupress

LOL, I saw the pic. Only knee deep and crystal clear. I’m going with inaccurate as well.


32 posted on 07/16/2013 1:58:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RoosterRedux

That’s horrific.


33 posted on 07/16/2013 1:58:12 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: carriage_hill

Is this that shark?
No ma’am...just a dolphin.


34 posted on 07/16/2013 1:58:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Lol!


35 posted on 07/16/2013 2:01:00 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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To: EEGator

Dolphin; oh, that’s okay.

Candygram.

LOLMAO! What a classic.


36 posted on 07/16/2013 2:01:21 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

Yep, back when SNL was actually funny.


37 posted on 07/16/2013 2:03:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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38 posted on 07/16/2013 2:04:17 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: carriage_hill

Lol. I loved that SNL skit!


39 posted on 07/16/2013 2:07:24 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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To: Nita Nupress

knock knock knock................flower delivery

we did not order flowers

knock knock knock................ candy gram

we did not order candy

knock knock knock............... Don West here

creepy ass cracka


40 posted on 07/16/2013 2:13:28 PM PDT by advertising guy (Phoenix...........where a prick in the butt ain't sexual.............it's a cactus)
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