Shark rips boy apart

News 24 ^ | 9-12-03 | News 24

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I wonder if the weather events have anything to do with this...
Excellent observation. I bet you're right.

speaking of Australia I wonder if their beaches stilll have a problem with jellyfish
The Bloody Blue Bottles, right? You bring up another good point. I'll have to check with my sources.

[WackyKat]

I know sharks are really stupid, but feeding wild animals teaches them to approach humans for food. I get these nanny-state urges when I hear about practices like that, and I have to remind myself that the worst sharks of all work for the government....

Feeding sharks and alligators should be banned.

Nanny-statism mostly involves protecting people from the negative consequences of their own stupidity.

These laws would protect people from the stupidity of others-those who are feeding wild predators.

[ladyrustic]

The picture is real, but that's a dolphin, not a shark.

[Jorge]

Look! It's Flipper. How cute.

[judywillow]

You'd only have to exterminate about four or five species of sharks to end 99.99% of all shark attacks on humans. You'd still have hundreds of species left.

[judywillow]

One guy on some high point on the beach with one of those would probably solve the problem; something like 5000 foot-pounds of energy...

[CFC__VRWC]

Feeding sharks and alligators should be banned.

Feeding gators is illegal, at least here in Florida, and I'll bet in other alligator states as well. People still do it, though, and it's just a matter of time before the animal will either act agressively toward people or attack them outright.

[bethelgrad]

"Fair well and adieu, to you fair Spanish ladies...
"Fair well and adieu, you ladies of Spain...

[doug from upland]

That is one of my favorite lines from the movie. I use the analogy all the time.

[StriperSniper]

School Chum?....tasteless joke?

Well Mr. Carcharodon did spit him out after one bite.

[lostlegend]

Years ago a freshman I knew at UC Santa Barbara turned up missing as well as a friend, while sailing in the Santa Barbara Channel. (That's off central California). Their small sailing boat was found adrift in the channel, but never a sign of either of the two young men. There was no damage to the boat.

The authorities never figured out what happened to the two.
Most of us figured a big shark got 'em both. There are both tigers and great whites in the channel, and sometimes killer whales.

Several weeks ago, a co-worker was surfing with a friend off Santa Cruz, (south of San Francisco) when his friend was biten by a baby great white shark. He told me his friend's arm was broken by the violence of the bite. He siad the shark dashed up from below, and bam!

I told him he and his friend should take up a mild-mannered sport-like bungee jumping, or hang gliding, or rock climbing. But he said they're going back. Happened at a place called Steamer Lane.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Just continuing that thought... if you eat a shark who recently ate a human... would that be a form of cannibalism

Bugs eat us, chickens eat bugs, and we eat chicken.

Plants grow in soil which was fertilizes with human blood and bone at some point. We either eat the plant or feed it to an animal that we then later bar-b-que.

sings:The Circle of Life...

I now have that song stuck in my head thanks to you.

[StriperSniper]

his friend was biten by a baby great white shark.

What does he consider a baby?

The Mako pups here in Jersey are about 4-4 1/2' and 50-60 lbs, the Threshers the same length, but only 30 lbs since they are half tail. The Browns just pupped a couple of weeks ago in Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn, yes, Brooklyn! I didn't see any myself, but lots of guys had their 20-30 lb bass chopped in half on the way up by the hungry mommas. ;-)

[ZULU]

Not enough, apparently.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Oops, sorry, didn't intend to do that.

[LibKill]

Most people think the food chain goes like this:

Humans.
Everything else.

In fact it goes like this:

Sharks.
Humans.
Everything else.

[Zigi]

"white death shark" is a very bad literal translation of the Afrikaans (the language in which the report was originally written) word "witdoodshaai". It should in fact be a "great white shark".