Shark attach at North Av

[bc]

Damien Murphy came up with this nugget

"The attack has riveted the North Avalon community, a mixture of old surf dogs and the well-heeled crowd who bought in on the backs of the IT and building booms. Surfing, with its hint of freedom and danger, is a rite of passage for locals."

http://www.smh.com.au/national/he-saw-n ... ml?page=-1

[wanto]

oh gawd.

[puurri]

As mkm implied, being at Av the shark spat him out because he probably tasted of tofu.

[Surfin Turf]

horrible x 1,000,000 ... poor kid , poor family ... by the sounds of it this little bloke is as tough as nails and his dad stepped up big time in the face of such a horrible occurence ... I too hope they can all get through this and move on , but it's pretty hard to know how they are really feeling ...

point I was gonna make is that I do a lot of mud slinging about blokes who surf in wetties at this time of year but you would think that a major contributing factor for this kid was that he was luckily wearing one ... the taste, the added protection rather than his bare leg and that it helped hold the wounds together ...

every time this happens someone always pipes up about how sharks are always there and how we are in their environment and should respect their environment ... f'ck em ... if they aren't developed enough to come on the land then so what ... should we tell ducks and frogs to make a choice between land and water and stick to it for life ... we are capable of going in the water and we live on the planet so we have every right to be there and they have no right to attack people ... if that was a dangerous dog that attacked someone walking down the street it'd be dead by now ... we put murderers in gaol , so sharks should be punished too ... whales, dolpins and seals are beautiful creatures , sharks suck ...

[Karlos]

we are capable of going in the water and we live on the planet so we have every right to be there and they have no right to attack people ... if that was a dangerous dog that attacked someone walking down the street it'd be dead by now ... we put murderers in gaol , so sharks should be punished too ... whales, dolpins and seals are beautiful creatures , sharks suck ...

Post of the month so far Surfin, & despite it being early days, I reckon it's got the legs to be there at the end.

But seriously, I reckon the crowds are thinning. I'm usually out right on 6am when its still dark & I have noticed over the last week or two that the numbers at that time at least are smaller. Didn't make it out this morning, but I reckon it would've been real quiet. Mind you, my paranoia levels have been tweaked somewhat as well.

[lessormore]

The world would be a pretty fcuked up place if we wiped out everything that was dangerous to humans.Its stating the bleedin obvious to say we won't exist without a healthy ecosystem-of which sharks are part of.Should we kill every bee because they have a stinger?

[robzig]

[Nick Carroll]

P.S the results of long lining wiping out the blue fin tuna population :?

What about killing all the goddam mulloway??

[Nick Carroll]

we put murderers in gaol , so sharks should be punished too

Shark prison!!

but how could you ever be sure you got the right one?

Oh I know, Shark CSI.

god I wish I had the time to photoshop that lil gem. c'mon step up to the plate someone.

am stunned the Telegraph actually restrained itself this morning and shot down a few of the self-interested messengers of Shark Doom

and BTW! yeah wanto, how does it feel to live somewhere where surfing is a "rite of passage" for well heeled IT boomers!!!???? Ouch!

[yanks r us]

every time this happens someone always pipes up about how sharks are always there and how we are in their environment and should respect their environment ... f'ck em ... if they aren't developed enough to come on the land then so what ... should we tell ducks and frogs to make a choice between land and water and stick to it for life ... we are capable of going in the water and we live on the planet so we have every right to be there and they have no right to attack people ... if that was a dangerous dog that attacked someone walking down the street it'd be dead by now ... we put murderers in gaol , so sharks should be punished too ... whales, dolpins and seals are beautiful creatures , sharks suck ...

Your wrong: they are developed, they'd kick your a** any day if you came into their territory.

Your right: You have a right to go in the water. But when did politics apply to creatures like sharks? Rights are a man made system dont expect a shark to go "oh I better starve to death and abanden my instincts that have been so successful for millions of years, can't eat that human, oh wait, is it a seal? better not attack it just in case, they have rights! I wonder who made them up anyway arghh stupid system"

I suppose we should kill everyone who eats fish, meat, or anyone who has sqaushed a fly. We kill millions and millions of animals every day/year, sharks only kill a couple each year.

Bite the bullet and man up you wimp

[Buff_Brad]

Bite the bullet and man up you wimp

It was the most moronic post of the year. But surfin is a fcuken moron. But "man up"?.... Surfin only would know one way...........garters, fishnets (pun intended) and heels ......with lots of heavy makeup I would imagine.

Now that would scare any Great White from the beaches.

[Karlos]

Yanks is back! The voice of reason has returned! Man up indeed you f*ckers!

[swift]

I think we should all revel in the fact that the sport we love, is quite possibly the last on earth that you can get killed by a natural predator whilst participating in it?

If your number is up it's up. There is nothing you can do about it.

[Larry]

I am not an ' old surf dog ' - and I am considering a class action, as soon as I find me trousers...

[oldman]

I think we should all revel in the fact that the sport we love, is quite possibly the last on earth that you can get killed by a natural predator whilst participating in it?

And you aren't holding a gun in your hand! (just in case anyone was going to suggest that either shooting is a sport, or that you can get killed doing it, by anything other than a fellow gun nut!)

I can't think of any other swift!

[Buff_Brad]

I am not an ' old surf dog ' - and I am considering a class action, as soon as I find me trousers...

Speak to me about class actions if you like old man.........

[Grooter]

The world would be a pretty fcuked up place if we wiped out everything that was dangerous to humans.Its stating the bleedin obvious to say we won't exist without a healthy ecosystem-of which sharks are part of.Should we kill every bee because they have a stinger?

Either that or kill off all the humans.

I'm sure the rest of the planets inhabitants would be happier

[lambert]

CSIRO scientist and shark expert John Stevens confirmed there was no evidence that shark numbers had increased, and said fishermen's claims were mischievous.

is he talking about the total population of sharks or the presense along the east coast? becuase i know for a fact this year has seen the biggest habitual mating migration in the history sharks(being tagged)to the sth qld/nth nsw coast

"About six sharks a month are now caught on average in the nets off Sydney. But if we look back more than 70 years ago in the 1930s, for the first 18 months the nets were in operation we were catching an average of 88 sharks a month."

nets are made to distrupt migration patterns and deter a shark making said beach into a habitat- its just like an electric fence, a horse wont put its head through it to eat grass after the first shock. the shitty thing is they only cover usually 186m with a depth of 6m----if they are failing as much as those stats above say we need more drumlines! fk the numbers


i saw on the news last night some lifegaurd giving suggestions to not get attacked and he missed the only one ppl need to know- if you dont want to get attacked by a shark dont fking go in the water