OK- he really shot it:
As sharks continue to search for food, and vacationers continue to take to the waters in search of fun, more encounters may be in store, researchers say.
The latest shark-human skirmish ended with one shark dead and another barely escaping after Ric Stoutamire decided two bull sharks had come too close for comfort. Stoutamire said he was startled when he spotted the sharks swimming Saturday in a canal about 25 feet from his vacation home in Shell Point.
“I was talking to somebody in my house, and I looked out of the window into the water and a big shark swam right between the dock and the seawall,” Stoutamire said.
Together with his son, his brother-in-law and two other friends, Stoutamire got into a small boat and went after the shark. They used grouper rods to catch the shark and after a 20-minute ordeal in which the hooked shark pulled their boat up and down the canal, they grabbed a pistol and shot at the water until they hit the shark. With a maneuver Stoutamire called “tailin’ it,” they tied a rope around the tail of the 6-foot shark and dragged it onto the dock.
Thank gawd there are no sharks in West Virginia, or Iwould worry about getting hit in the crossfire.
bigd504
What are these dweebles going to do with the shark- have grilled shark steaks or shark fin soup? Or do they mount it over their sofa? I’m a dedicated omnivore but just to kill a shark because it within range seems rather stupid at best. If only the shark had managed to bite of them first…
BumperStickerist
let’s see, 4 adult males, possibly 5 getting into a ‘small boat’ going after sharks.
The ‘Best Darwin Award Winning Performance by a Group’ goes to .. The Stoudamires
Note to Ric: You’re going to need a bigger boat.
JPS
BumperStickerist:
Not bad, but as Hooper put it, I got that beat. Well, I don’t, but check out this story from Uncle Jimbo:
“Spanky and the Shark”