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Author Topic: Way Off-topic but interesting local story.  (Read 3319 times)

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Way Off-topic but interesting local story.
« on: January 04, 2006, 10:09:31 am »
I don't think this dude would be in the water if it was a tiger shark.  Most severe attacks in our waters have been attributed to Tigers.  I've seen sharks when I use to surf but nothing this big.  I'm sure I would have a big brown spot in my board shorts if I was in the water at the same time. [smiley=disbelief.gif]





http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Dec/31/ln/FP512310330.html
« Last Edit: January 06, 2006, 03:33:03 pm by jimbo »

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Re: Way Off-topic but interesting local story.
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2006, 11:24:45 pm »
I'm sorry, but that's just insanity! I know I would have stayed in the cage!
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Re: Way Off-topic but interesting local story.
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2006, 09:49:03 am »
Nah, he was fiiiine. Seriously. Take a look at how FULL that shark is.  [smiley=laughing.gif] He must have eaten a cow before his appearance. [smiley=nod.gif] Jimmy knew what he was doin'.

/ sarcastic response, as I sit here with my feet crossed in my chair (afraid to touch the ground), vowing never to enter a pool again because of James Bond movies and thinking that that Jimmy guy is a freakin' lunatic!

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Re: Way Off-topic but interesting local story.
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2006, 03:37:16 pm »
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I'm sorry, but that's just insanity! I know I would have stayed in the cage!


I don't think that puny cage would stand up to a shark that size if it got aggressive.  I would jump in the boat and run away.  

Oh wait, that damm shark in "JAWS" chased them down.  That movie still gives me nightmares.

Yes INSANITY it is.

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Re: Way Off-topic but interesting local story.
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2006, 03:04:15 pm »
Guys is definitly nuts, or maybe just wants an extra close veiw of the sharks digestive system!
If anyone gets to Victoria, Australia you've got to check out a great white that was caught in phillip island. It's now in a big tank of fermaldihide, I think it's just over 20ft! (don't quote me on that!) giives you the hebygeebies just looking at it![smiley=diaper.gif]
It was cruising round the pier at phillip island in the 80's and they hooked it by chucking in a leg of beef in roped to a tractor!

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Re: Way Off-topic but interesting local story.
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2006, 02:38:39 am »
Bull sharks killed a young woman on an island of eastern Australia Saturday. Sounds like the movie JAWS all over again. As she was being attacked off the beach, a lady screamed for everybody to leave the water. The woman later died in the hospital of her injuries.

Think I will stick to my bike.

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