Posted by dawhale on September 08, 2001 at 05:23:08:
I found this on the Google forum and thought you all might get a kick out of it . dawhale
LAND SHARKS, They are real. LOL
Seeker wrote in message
news:9n40ao$ul6$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net...
> Now the da*n sharks are attacking people on land, where will it all end.
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_389491.html?menu=
> Keith
>
> >>>A chef at a restaurant in Cornwall says his thumb was nearly ripped off
> by a dead shark.
>
> Darren Smith was driving the porbeagle shark to the Dolphin restaurant in
> Newquay when the accident happened.
>
> He braked sharply and his hand got caught in the shark's mouth, severing an
> artery and almost slicing his thumb off.
>
> The 24-year-old told The Sun: "I felt a right idiot. I must be the first
> person in history to be attacked by a shark on dry land - and a dead one at
> that.
>
> "The nurses at the hospital couldn't stop laughing when I said how it
> happened."
>
> Mr. Smith needed 17 stitches after the accident involving the seven
> feet-long shark.<<<