WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT

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[Big Ramifications]

Hoping someone can confirm I'm not imagining this...

When I'm getting ready for work, I watch the Today show with Steve, Tracy, Sami, Tim, Richard, Oriel (hubbada hubbada), Sharyn et al. Kochie and the morons at Seven can go lick my balls.

Er, anyway, during one of those rushed mornings, I briefly paid attention to an interview with Tracy and a fisherman, along with some footage he took of a Great White Shark circling his boat. Circling his boat not far from where the poor bastard got eaten a week or so later.

And what I *think* he said was, "I didn't bring it to the media's attention immediately coz I didn't want the thing hunted and killed."

Did anyone else see this interview? And if so, do you think the fisherman's feeling pretty proud of himself right now? Given that it's a good chance that it's the same shark?

But on the other hand, the victim's dad is pretty cool about it - and I dips me lid to him, I honestly do - so the point is possibly moot anyway.

[Tony.T]

I didn't see it, Big. But I remember after that guy got munched at Cottesloe, his family said they didn't want to start open-season on sharks. Same as a guy who got his arm chomped by a croc in the Kimberleys.

The Cottesloe folks said it was just dumb luck and that afterall, they WERE in the shark's dining room. The Kimberley guy just said he was stupid.

The real issue is what you were doing watching morning news shows. We ought to feed you to sharks.

[Nabakov]

"Given that it's a good chance that it's the same shark?"

if it is, I reckon they should RFID tag him (or her), stencil a silhouette of a human on the fin (like a fighter pilot's "kills" under the cockpit), install sharkcam and put the feed on the internet, linked to GPS co-ordinates and the TAB.

It'd beat the shit out of 'Outback Jack' or 'Big Brother'.

[Brett Pee]

I've lived near Croc country and , by god, you ARE stupid swimming anywhere near their habitats. The best way of combatting one if it grabs hold of you, seriously, is to grab a pencil and ram it into one of it's eyes. Probably wouldn't work for a Great White though.

[Pedro the Ignorant]

Better still, grab a 12 gauge and ram a solid shot in it's eye. (at VERY high speed)

I'd like to see a pencil vs croc fight. Better than Big Brother, but the TAB odds would be a bit crook.

[Tony.T]

Not quite.

I suggest we also smear the casts of Outback Jack and Big Brother in burley and chuck them in the middle of Spencer Gulf.

We could give them pencils for protection.

[SB]

Nabakov that is a great post, sharp and funny.

[Tony.T]

Absolutely. He ought to get a blog.

That works.

[pat]

It depresses me that no one has righteous indignation anymore. The last I saw it was when a whole bunch of FNQlanders took to a rainforest with chainsaws, leaping from utes en masse, as a literal and SYMBOLIC punch to the jaw of lefty forest loving types who sought to deprive them of jobs working on a resort planned for the now destroyed location.

If they don't think shark attacks can be stemmed by killing sharks then just say so. Forget this "they r just doin wat they do" bullshit. I'd stab the fucker to death with my hands if it killed my kids - just out of rage - and whats wrong with rage?

[Ferombah Hynde]

Help! HELP!!

Someone pass me a pencil! It's got me!

[Tony.T]

It's a WOODEN pencil, too. Might even be from FNQ.

[Big Ramifications]

I remember after that guy got munched at Cottesloe, his family said they didn't want to start open-season on sharks.

I dunno if his wife has changed her tune, but I remember her saying the complete opposite.

She poo-pooed the Fisheries Department for herding it back out to sea, rather than shooting it.

[Tony.T]

Whaddaya know? Conflicting reports from the media. Who'd have thought it.

[Harry Hutton]

And if you don't have a pencil, you should ask a passer-by to lend you one.

[Tony.T]

And a notebook. If you escape, your publicist will need the details.