Sharks are serial killers!!!

If you eat corn flakes, you are a cereal killer.

 

Mother with baby

 

Shouldn't you be more worried about alligators then?

 

Reported.

 

Never mind my previous post. If you live in Florida, you should really be worried about golf.

 

This is a Humpback

 

This is an Orca

 

MJ: A compilation of many articles...Posted for our vacationing PC friend and his wife soon to visit. Don't show this to her!



The waters of Marin's west shore are a shark mecca. Park police posted signs Monday morning to warn visitors of the sighting, and beachgoers will not be able to enter the water past their knees. The surf off Stinson Beach is within an area known as the Red Triangle, where there have been an unusually high number of shark attacks.[9]
While there usually several sightings of great white sharks, attacks are rare and non-fatal. All of the victims survived. They say sandy beaches like Stinson are safer because sharks don't have a way to hide from their pray. There are two factors that make an area of water dangerous for swimmers. "One there are seals there. They feed on seals. Second, there is a rocky bottom over which they can ambush those seals," said Kimley.
…"This shark had a lot of girth," said John Ralf, chief lifeguard at Stinson Beach, who described the shark as 8 to 10 feet long. The size may indicate it is young; great whites can grow up to 21 feet in length. The shark is thought to be a great white because of its size and the shape of its tail, said Ozola Cody, a National Park Service spokeswoman.
Since 1927, Marin has seen 11 shark attacks, second-most in the state behind Humboldt County, which reported 12. None of the Marin attacks was fatal. … was paddling face-down on his surf board when the attack occurred. He was struck in the right hip and thigh, but officials believe the shark never really got a good grip. …A Surfer was attacked off Bolinas in 2002 when a 12- to 14-foot-long great white bit him on the left side, causing leg and torso wounds that required 100 stitches. … was attacked in shallow water at Stinson Beach. His wounds required 200 stitches.
More than two dozen shark attacks have been logged in the notorious "red triangle" - bounded by the Farallon Islands, Tomales Point and Monterey - since 1972, when protection laws for marine mammals were enacted. But attacks are rare, rarer then being struck by lightning. From 1959 through 2007, 28 people died from lightning strikes in the state, while five were killed by sharks, according to the International Shark Attack File, based at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
From 1926 to 2007, there were 96 attacks and seven fatalities in California waters, according to the International Shark Attack File. During the height of the season, there are generally no more than 200 sharks in the region, experts say. Sharks are at their peak in the summer, the time when people tend to be in the water. The mix has led to a number of attacks over the years.
Sharks generally do not like the taste of humans, often biting once and letting go. But the powerful physiology of the beast - an average of 14 to 21 feet, between 1,500 and 4,000 pounds and razor-sharp serrated teeth - is sometimes enough to doom a human with one bite.
The key this weekend for people at Stinson Beach is to not look like a seal in the water.

 

Hi All,

That sounds suspicious. I bet it was rival students who tiped the coke machine onto him. I had a canoe I was in upended by some carnut ME guys who did not like the fact that between my roomate (we did not even realize this till one day just before finals I noticed he had similar 95+ test scores as me) and I the curve in Physics 106 and 7 (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism) was making it very tough on them. My roomate went on to be a MD (Manitowoc). We never studied together, he did things by rote, and I did things by first principals and on-the-spot derivations. The same guy who tipped the canoe threw a glass bottle at me out a third floor dorm window a year earlier, and it grazed my fore-head. I was talking to a guy who later became a NASA engineer about his freshman ME paper rergarding car emissions and fuel economy, while he worked on his bike. This was in 1975. Its remarkable how car efficiency is still not great, but has just started to be improved upon with the Prius and other HSD-like cars some 35 years later.

 

Number of alligators who've dragged people from their gardens >= 1
Number of sharks who've dragged people from their gardens = 0

Are you the type who worries that your windows need washing when your house is on fire, too?

 

Whoa! Wait a minute. Does that statistic reflect the very real and not-at-all-imaginary danger of Land Sharks?

 

If I could teach my cat to eat corn flakes, then I would have a serial killer that is a cereal killer. :madgrin:

 

That's why prog's like "go-back" ... system restore ... and "roll-back" were invented. AOL is like a virus.

 

I'm sure that Dave_PH didn't notice this or he would have commented something about people getting their legs bitten off at the knees.

I'll tell you, though, I'd be a lot more scared of alligators, which like to eat people and do so at every opportunity, than of sharks, which are basically just teddy bears with teeth and don't even like our flavor.

 

Perhaps Dave should consider moving to Nebraska. I bet that statistically the chances of shark attack are very low in Nebraska. :madgrin:

 

Yeah, but the coke machines there are vicious!

 

I bet that more people are killed by drinking the sugar water in the coke machine than are killed by the coke machine falling over on them. :madgrin: