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My Friend Caught a Great White with his bare hands

post #1 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:19pm
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Okay, so it wasn't the largest shark anyone has ever seen, but it looks pretty darned ferocious (pics below).

Last Sunday, my buddy was on the Oregon coast heading to the Sea Lion Caves (http://www.oregon.com/attractions/sealioncave.cfm) when he noticed a fish flopping on the edge of the surf. As they approached, it proceeded to strand itself on the beach.

They stopped to look at it, and were joined by more and more people who were walking to the caves. Finally, someone who claimed a knowledge of carcharadon carcharias indicated that it was a Great White. My friend (carefully) put it in the water and pushed it around for a while until it showed signs of life. It promptly beached itself again, and he finally waded out, tossed it a good ten feet, and then exited the water quickly as the shark repeatedly tried to attack anyone who came near it. I thought it might have been a porbeagle, myself, but after looking carefully at the pics I have to agree that it's a Great White.





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post #2 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:22pm
He didn't keep throwing it back did he? Cause if he did, it will eventually grow to enormous size, and terrorize him and his family for years.

Have we learned nothing from "Jaws 4: The Revenge"?
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post #3 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:24pm
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Originally Posted by Death Surge
He didn't keep throwing it back did he? Cause if he did, it will eventually grow to enormous size, and terrorize him and his family for years.

Have we learned nothing from "Jaws 4: The Revenge"?
Michael Caine will be in anything?
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post #4 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:24pm
Awesome. My dad once caught a little shark while fishing on the beach, and even when they're only a foot long and trapped inside a bucket of water (maybe especially if they're trapped), those things are pretty scary.
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post #5 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:30pm
The first and last pictures made me laugh in their contrast. In the first the shark looks very "Aaaarrggg!! I'm a freaking Shark! AAARRRG!!", however the last one he just seems "Dammit, this is humiliating, will you please let me go?".

I really need to stop anthropomorphizing things.
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post #6 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:32pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
The first and last pictures made me laugh in their contrast. In the first the shark looks very "Aaaarrggg!! I'm a freaking Shark! AAARRRG!!", however the last one he just seems "Dammit, this is humiliating, will you please let me go?".

I really need to stop anthropomorphizing things.
You're right! It's like he's been defeated by life.
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post #7 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:39pm
Nice pics. That was also very nice of your friend to try to help the poor (I mean ferocious!) little guy.
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post #8 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:42pm
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Originally Posted by Overlord
You're right! It's like he's been defeated by life.
Well, since he was probably dying, he really was defeated by life.
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post #9 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:44pm
I think that's the exact same beach I was on during my honeymoon in Oregon last year when a freak hail storm stranded us in a cave with this strange old man who casually showed me the pistol tucked in his waistband and kept regaling me about these young female Scandinavian hitchhikers he had picked up until the hail slacked and we booked it to the sea lion caves hoping he wouldn't follow. Good times.

Awesome, I found the picture my wife took:

http://render2.snapfish.com/render2/.../of=50,590,393


That's him showing me the pistol for the ninth time. Really unrelated to the shark story, it just trigged a very odd memory.
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post #10 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:46pm
I think you're friend just may be in fact Bill Brasky. Check to see if his right nipple plays the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
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post #11 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:49pm
I think in the last picture the shark is looking at the skinny legs next to him and realizes there's no meal for him there.
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post #12 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:53pm
Is it wrong that I think he's kinda cute? The shark, I mean. I'm sure your friend is good looking enough but...you know what, I'm just backing out of this thread slowly. Nothing to see here!
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post #13 of 38
8/29/07 at 2:55pm
Everything is always so cute and precious (or gawky like 7 year-old boys with wingnut ears half the size of their head) when they're small.

Not true for sharks.

Thanks for sharin', Overlord!
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post #14 of 38
8/29/07 at 3:01pm
Some guys were catching sharks by hand on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations a few weeks back, and, while watching it, I had the same anthropomorphizing reaction that Chris had in this this thread.

The shark, who was being held from the sides, just had this look that said, "Put me down. Please. This sucks. Just put me down."
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post #15 of 38
8/29/07 at 3:12pm
Thank God your friend is not wearing sandals, we don't need to get Devin riled up over that again.
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post #16 of 38
8/29/07 at 3:57pm
SMALL SHARK IS SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL...
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post #17 of 38
8/29/07 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
The first and last pictures made me laugh in their contrast. In the first the shark looks very "Aaaarrggg!! I'm a freaking Shark! AAARRRG!!", however the last one he just seems "Dammit, this is humiliating, will you please let me go?".

I really need to stop anthropomorphizing things.

Been reading Twisted Toyfare Theater again, eh?
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post #18 of 38
8/29/07 at 4:32pm
It does like sad in that last pic. Should have told it to "Smile, you son of a bitch."
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post #19 of 38
8/29/07 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
The first and last pictures made me laugh in their contrast. In the first the shark looks very "Aaaarrggg!! I'm a freaking Shark! AAARRRG!!", however the last one he just seems "Dammit, this is humiliating, will you please let me go?".
I feel it's reflective of Nick's attempts to get "Meg" made into a movie.
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post #20 of 38
8/29/07 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
I really need to stop anthropomorphizing things.
You named the shark "Dupree", didn't you?

"Hansel"?
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post #21 of 38
8/29/07 at 6:53pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
The first and last pictures made me laugh in their contrast. In the first the shark looks very "Aaaarrggg!! I'm a freaking Shark! AAARRRG!!", however the last one he just seems "Dammit, this is humiliating, will you please let me go?".
Aww, the poor little shark-guy. He's probably worried that the other sharks would see him and laugh. I'll bet that's why he kept trying to beach himself - he knew if he went back into the water, there was a team of bigger sharks waiting to give him an atomic wedgie. "No, no, please, let me stay here on the beach. Where it's safe. With you guys."
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post #22 of 38
8/29/07 at 8:03pm
you couldn't have named this thread "We're gonna need a smaller boat", or at least thrown some kind of Jaws reference in there? what the hell's wrong with you, man?

cool pics though.
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post #23 of 38
8/30/07 at 7:35am
I had acrazy aunty who lused to live on this little backwater island that lies between NZ and Antarctica (Sadly not the Nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh) and one day she found a washed up pregnant shark and decided to send each of her nephews a dead baby shark in a jar of formaldehyde for Christmas. I kept it for a number of years but eventually put it up and out of the way in a high up cubboard. Years later again, I was looking for som ething else up there and accidentally knocked the dead shark over and down to the floor where the jar shattered. I don't know if any of you have every been in the presence of exposed formaldehyde, but it burns your eyes and lungs something horrible so I ran out of the room and couldint go back in there for two weeks because of the fumes. The dead shark itself we threw out in the back garden. The next day when we went to check on it there were two dead hedgehogs who I guess had tried to eat it. And that is my story of how I once owned a shark that could kill from beyond the grave.
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post #24 of 38
8/30/07 at 9:14am
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Aww, the poor little shark-guy. He's probably worried that the other sharks would see him and laugh. I'll bet that's why he kept trying to beach himself - he knew if he went back into the water, there was a team of bigger sharks waiting to give him an atomic wedgie. "No, no, please, let me stay here on the beach. Where it's safe. With you guys."
Actually, I thought it was a landshark wannabe. Overlord, did your friend comment on what sounds the shark made, if any? Was it muttering "Candygram"?
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post #25 of 38
8/30/07 at 1:52pm
Like I needed another reason not to swim in the ocean. Sharks absolutely terrify me, way deep down at a primal level, even little ones. That cute little great white could still eat your face. The picture of the guy in the water holding the shark was the stuff of my nightmares.

Give me a swimming pool, where you can actually see through the water. Fuck the sea.
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post #26 of 38
8/30/07 at 2:03pm
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It's a vicious looking little beast, eh.
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post #27 of 38
8/30/07 at 2:12pm
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post #28 of 38
8/30/07 at 2:29pm
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post #29 of 38
8/30/07 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by horrid
I had acrazy aunty who lused to live on this little backwater island that lies between NZ and Antarctica (Sadly not the Nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh) and one day she found a washed up pregnant shark and decided to send each of her nephews a dead baby shark in a jar of formaldehyde for Christmas. I kept it for a number of years but eventually put it up and out of the way in a high up cubboard. Years later again, I was looking for som ething else up there and accidentally knocked the dead shark over and down to the floor where the jar shattered. I don't know if any of you have every been in the presence of exposed formaldehyde, but it burns your eyes and lungs something horrible so I ran out of the room and couldint go back in there for two weeks because of the fumes. The dead shark itself we threw out in the back garden. The next day when we went to check on it there were two dead hedgehogs who I guess had tried to eat it. And that is my story of how I once owned a shark that could kill from beyond the grave.
I don't know about you, but I can just envision David Lynch shooting this. With Kyle MacLachlan as Horrid.
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post #30 of 38
8/30/07 at 3:11pm
Sharks ain't cute. If that were me, I would've belted him in the face a few times as it struggled for air. Deepest, bluest mothafucka!
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post #31 of 38
9/4/07 at 7:14am
You should have kept the shark in case of Alzheimer.

Have fun losing your minds, suckers!!
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post #32 of 38
9/4/07 at 9:46pm
The thing that hits me about those photos is you know how most animals look so cute and cuddly when they're little, that guy looks just angry as fuck suggesting these things come out of the womb looking hard. If you didn't have the guy standing next to it in the photo to give it some perspective you'd swear is was an adult shark.
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post #33 of 38
9/4/07 at 9:54pm
What, no photoshopping yet?
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post #34 of 38
9/4/07 at 11:48pm
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Originally Posted by Jason P. Thompson
What, no photoshopping yet?
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post #35 of 38
9/5/07 at 12:37am
That is the scariest thing I have ever seen. I would have shat myself holding Jaws by the tail.
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post #36 of 38
9/5/07 at 11:34pm
I have to know: did he give you an estimate on the thing's weight? I imagine it's really heavy for its size. Baby or not, your friend's a brave man.
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post #37 of 38
9/5/07 at 11:42pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
I have to know: did he give you an estimate on the thing's weight? I imagine it's really heavy for its size. Baby or not, your friend's a brave man.
He said it was surprisingly heavy for its length. Next time we chat, I'll ask for the exact weight.
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post #38 of 38
9/6/07 at 2:44pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller
The thing I love the most about that particular photo is the shape of the shark's mouth in that picture. It's not the big, open mouth "RAWWWRR!!! CHOMP!!!" kind of shark picture. The mouth is just kind of partially open. Just sorta. In a way. It gives him that partially confused, partially stunned, all the way embarrassed, "Uhhh... heeeeyy.... are you gonna put me down? Uhhhh, my tail...please?" look.
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