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Did Shark Photobomb Manhattan Beach Family? [California]
CBS - LA ^
| December 28, 2013
Posted on 12/29/2013 6:04:24 AM PST by ETL
MANHATTAN BEACH (CBSLA.com) Say cheese!
Say shark? Did a shark photobomb a Manhattan Beach family Friday?
June Emerson thinks one did!
Emersons Facebook page has been flooded with comments that she and her sons were definitely involved with a close encounter of the Jaws variety. Others see it more like Flipper as in a harmless dolphin.
Whatever tail you believe, the picture definitely has put a fright into Emerson.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: dolphins; sharks
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:04:25 AM PST
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ETL
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:04:44 AM PST
by
ETL
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To: ETL
To: ETL
hopefully heading to Hawaii.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:09:01 AM PST
by
bikerman
(Obama! if his lips are moving he's lying.)
To: ETL
Sure not a shark, unless they are thinking about the vacuum clearer.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:10:31 AM PST
by
mware
To: ETL
FTA:
Whatever tail you believe...Modern journalism illuminates the wonder of public education.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:10:35 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Remember who the real enemy is!)
To: mware
No doubt that it’s a shark, most likely a great white.
A dolphin’s tail is flat (horizontal).
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:14:55 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
To: Aevery_Freeman
Perhaps they meant it in terms of shark tail vs dolphin? But in that case they should have but the word ‘tail’ in quotes.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:15:49 AM PST
by
ETL
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To: bikerman
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:17:53 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: ETL
I was a life guard at Seaside Heights New Jersey. That's definitely a Crab! All kidding aside the tail is vertical so it is not a dolphin! The fin and tail points to a shark.
Plus dolphins avoided breaking waves. When they passed our beach they were about 500 feet off shore and were gracing for their food. They definitely avoided the Boardwalk submarines although my favorite was tuna with onions and a root beer!
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:18:42 AM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
To: ETL
They are out there all the time.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:19:16 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: ETL
All the photo is showing is the darker part of the sharks back, not the lighter underbelly of the great white, but the tail is definitely that of a shark.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:19:58 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
To: ETL
For some reason I’m reminded of the balloon boy hoax of a few years ago.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:22:50 AM PST
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: Aevery_Freeman
I wrote above: Perhaps they meant it in terms of shark tail vs dolphin? But in that case they should have put the word tail in quotes.
In other words, they may have meant it as a pun.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:24:54 AM PST
by
ETL
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:26:47 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
To: Beagle8U
I found this below regarding a different incident...
This Is Not A Shark
![pilot-whale.JPG](http://hairybeast.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/pilot-whale.JPG)
The Beast is a fisherman and a shark enthusiast, so when something sharky happens it goes on his blog. There really hasnt been all that much going on lately (sharkwise) but The Beast has noticed in his various web searches certain pictures showing up over and over. One of the more popular is this shot of a large scary sea creature zipping by a surfer in the curl of a wave. People assume its a shark but is it?
Note the shape of the dorsal fin (A.), its curved, like the letter C. And the tail fin (B.), though faint, is broadly triangular and appears to be attached horizontally, not vertically, which would make it a fluke, not a fin.
![pilot-whale-fin-copy.jpg](http://hairybeast.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/pilot-whale-fin-copy.jpg)
Lets compare dorsal fins.
Heres a shark dorsal: ![shark-dorsal.jpg](http://hairybeast.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/shark-dorsal.jpg)
Heres a dolphin dorsal: ![dolphin-dorsal-copy.jpg](http://hairybeast.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/dolphin-dorsal-copy.jpg)
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:33:21 AM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
I’ve always been told by family friends who live on the NC coast that you wouldn’t be in there if you knew what was swimming around your feet. One of my favorite beaches in northern CA has been closed to swimming numerous times I’ve been there due to shark sightings. Of course the water’s too cold there for much without a wetsuit anyway, so I suppose it didn’t matter all that much but it does cast a little pall over a day at the beach, lol.
To: ETL
Martin, i-it's all psychological. You yell `dolphin!', everybody says `huh, what?'. You yell `shark!' and we've got a panic on our hands on the fourth of July.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:40:25 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
To: Beagle8U
I dont know how to post photos here You just copy the photo's url location (right click on photo), then paste it between the quotes in the following HTML image formula:
![Image and video hosting by TinyPic](http://i43.tinypic.com/1z2kokk.jpg)
The "p" between the arrows are just paragraph breaks, so that any text above or below the photo doesn't get screwed up.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:41:45 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
![](http://cdn1.bostonmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/9758435305_069a1606c6_b.jpg)
Photo of a Great White attacking a seal, 100 yards off the shore of Cape Cod this summer.
Fishermen have recently been prohibited from killing seals, so they are appearing all along Cape Cod shores. And along with the seals come the pursuing sharks.
The first attack on a human, since the 1930s, occurred this summer. A fatal attack is only a matter of time.
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posted on
12/29/2013 6:43:11 AM PST
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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