Have surfers fallen in love with the tormentors?
You are, of course, a student of human behavior so know without me telling you that Stockholm Syndrome refers to the psychological condition wherein captives fall in love with their captor. The name refers to the 1973 incident when robbers held four souls against their will in a failed Stockholm heist. Afterward the victims refused to testify because they had developed such a strong bond with the robbers.
It was love!
There are many similar incidents scattered throughout history and now surfers and sharks are tangled in an emotional web too!
A new fin being crowdfunded has a declaration that reads, “If my life is taken, don’t take theirs” referring to the shark. It is not legally binding, I don’t think, but supposed to save the lives of sharks that eat people. The fins cost $160 for three and proceeds go to shark conservation.
And if a shark killed you would you want the ocean scrubbed of their kind? I would not care, if I was dead.
If I lost a limb to a shark I would heal up then go hunting for that one like Captain Ahab.
If I lost a loved one to shark, though, I would become a 12th century crusader, spending the rest of my life in a boat with a shoulder-mounted missile launcher blowing the fuckers out of the water.
Every last one of them.
But you are a better man than me. Fund the Fin for a Fin project here!
I’m so with ya on the shoulder mounted weaponry and Ahab like blood lust. Kill them all and eat their livers!
I wonder if Mike is greatful to the shark who ripped his leg off. And what right did HE HAVE to deny the shark its second breakfast on that day?? he was intruding in it’s home afterall!
If you build a golf course in the middle of a jungle, is it fair to kill the lions just so you can play?
Yes, yes it is. Human life always trumps the lives of critters, stupid or not, we have souls.
Ya cant fake this kind of stupid. This is some legitimate mental retardation. I wonder if he eats fish n chips??
Would make a great gift to give someone on a birthday or Christmas.
As a package deal with Stab’s Modcom (or whatever or however it’s spelled or spelt – the Scottish spelling bee champion is patrolling these waters!)
Don’t want to take the wind out of your sails, valiant avenger, but as a twelfth century crusader you’d be stuck for several frustrating centuries firing arrows into the Cardiff shorebreak. No time like the present for weapons of mass destruction I say.
I was mostly speaking to the zeal. Like, the never waning passion plus a shoulder fired missile.
Ooh, I think I get it now. You mean like this?
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Exactly!
First the Coots Boot now this? The man is making a killing out of not being killed.
If the sharks stop biting, who’s he gonna sell the Coot Boot to? He’s also got some money invested in a new startup, the Hamilton Hand.
Someone should make some that say “AVENGE ME”.
Bullshit excuse to charge $160 for a thruster setup. Suck it Coots.
I had a few more days to think about this and now I’m even more hungover and worked up. Fuck this guy, 1 leg or 2. Let me buy these fins, so in case of me getting shark-mauled to death, everyone knows afterwards that I harbor no ill will to the shark that killed me. SCAM! This premise is idiotic and Mike Coots is a fraud (not the leg-I’m pretty sure that’s real(not real))