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.