I get a little suspicious of the accuracy of a story from a TV station in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose source is a story from a New Zealand newspaper, about something that happened to a Canadian tourist in the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean. Truly a globe spanning story.
EDIT: Going to the New Zealand Herald, their story just seems to be a copy of the story in the Daily Telegraph of London, England, written by one of their U.S. correspondents. That is at least a British territory, so it sort of works. Information seems largely the same as in the Turks and Caicos Weekly, so maybe the story is accurate.
This is the exact route Ethan Hunt takes in Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning
Don’t know how he didn’t make it to Cincinnati in the first film
So I heard from Joe’s best friend’s brother-in-law that Bill lost $600 in a one handed chainsaw competition…
Thank you Simone.
here’s a predator that has existed for many many many millions of years because they’re so good at killing. I’m gonna try to take a picture of it! That seems like a great idea! /s
His tummy was making the rumblies… That only hands could satisfy…
Caaarl!
For the record, the picture is harmful unrelated BS, the shark in question was about 6 feet long and thought to be a bull shark, certainly not a great white.
Racism I understand, but shark racism? Why care?
Because people being ignorant and afraid of sharks in general but great whites in particular hampers conservation efforts. Sharks in general but big sharks like the great whites in particular are vital to the ecosystem and great whites are vulnerable globally and critically endangered in Europe.
I think the prevailing message here is more of a “human stupid” than a “sharks evil”.
Yes, I didn’t have a problem with the article, just the picture used.
I don’t think the picture matters tbh. The bull shark looks exactly the same. Maybe a little darker on the grey part.
Sorry, but I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who fucks with an animal; wild or otherwise.
are you vegan?
IIRC Cardassians are fungivores. I. E. they only eat mushrooms/ fungi. Not sure if that would qualify as Vegan though since those aren’t “plants.”
It has been determined that the tourist had attempted to engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs
The information is pretty scant but it sounds like maybe she was splashing around trying to get its attention.
It’s really sad honestly. She’s a double amputee now, and later in life so not likely to get a fancy new prosthetic.
Bull sharks are no joke. They’re not as huge and scary as great whites but they’re aggressive, and can operate in fresh water as well as salt water. Jeremy Wade did an episode on them in river monsters. Artificial canal estates tend to be infested with them.
I think the local authorities have some culpability in this. If you have sharks literally prowling around beaches full of clueless tourists then you have to close the beach. That’s what we do at popular beaches in Australia when a shark is spotted.
So do they just say you can’t go in the water, or do they close the beach sandy area because people are idiots?
They close the sandy area in most cases.
Other beachgoers saved the woman from an even worse fate, with her husband scaring off the shark after the attack and strangers gathering around her and using their clothes to slow the bleeding.
I dunno, I think I’d rather die than spend the rest of my life with no hands.
I’m pretty certain you’d get accustomed pretty quickly
Humans are amazingly adaptive
I don’t know about that. I have a chronic medical condition which affects my muscles; I’ve adapted, but it took a long time and I still hate it.
How traumatizing for everyone involved.
It’s a wonder humans took over the world and not dolphins or some other reasonably smart animal.
Humans are 20% culture, progress, and innovation, and 80% tasty hands and dead weight.
Those hands aren’t just tasty, they also have opposable thumbs and allow complex tool use, and perhaps most importantly, complex tool creation.
I think the complex use and creation are probably the exception not the rule. I’m beginning to wonder if most people, especially in the US, could fish ants out of a colony with a stick. I am unfortunately doubtful.
Is incompetence and ignorance widespread? Yes.
Are most things underpinning civilization too complicated for most to understand? Also yes.
But do they have that innate human spirit of creativity and persistence that will enable them to figure it out if it fell on them and their peers to rebuild? Well, no. Not really, probably not.
They’ll figure out some of it and make a primitive and misunderstood approximation of civilization. Like a parrot mimicking good poetry, people will not understand the purpose behind the designs that shaped their life. They’ll try to follow the notes and say the words, but they won’t æ understand. They won’t rebuild civilization, they’ll be making a barely functional tribe.
Like a phone, which was part of the problem here
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Prices?
There’s a
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The irony
Typo, works both ways i guess tho. The amount of money this will cost probably isn’t zero.
OMG, is the phone ok?
Did she get the pic?
Yea but it’s hard to find
She certainly had a hand in it
“Sure, let’s get to the hospital, but first? Lemme take a stumpy.”
And that, my friends, is why you need a selfie stick. <insert 90’s commercial end sound>
🎵 Get your selfie stick
Grab a stick of juicy fruit
The taste is gonna move ya 🎵
To be fair, aside from approaching a bull shark, she did everything correct. Low heart rate, calm, etc… If prosthetics were only 20 years more advanced, she wouldn’t be permanently crippled by this injury.
From what source are you basing the detail “low heart rate, calm”? The OP article mentions nothing about the woman’s state other than her immediate trauma.
Only took an hour for someone to question my believable, but entirely unsubstantiated, claim. You win the prize!
That is a response, not an answer. What is the source of your information concerning the woman’s heart rate and demeanour?
Check out the username.
(You also win the prize)
(Thanks, I dig your game)
Having checked, am awaiting answer.
I understand that Gullible@sh.itjust.works/IndescribablySad@threads.net is operated by someone with nothing to give the world other than sugar-spun wit.
It doesn’t answer the question though.
Does it not occur to you they made it up, waiting for someone who read it to correct them? I don’t expect there to be a source.
