Are you more scared or less scared to surf in southern California?
More details have been released about the woman attacked by a shark at the surf break Church between San Onofre and Lowers and they are heartbreaking. She is a mother of three children from Vista, California. Her mother has set up a GoFundMe (donate here!) where she explains the physical damage:
Leeanne was swimming at San Onofre state beach on April 29th 2017 and was attacted by a shark. It tore her right back leg from her glute to her knee. The Doctors also say that she drowned when the shark pulled her under. She’s now in Scripps Memorial Hospital fighting for her life. She is a single mom with three young children who depend on her.
Brutal but the details surrounding the attack itself remain murky. Initial rumor had it that she was simply wading in the water wearing swim fins. Some even had it that she was cruising the shorebreak on a Boogie. Another rumor today had it that she was trying to rescue and injured baby seal.
I heard last night from a crew of very fine San Clemente locals that she actually was on the beach. Her male friend was on a SUP and out the back. She wanted to go visit him so kicked out past the surf on a Boogie. When she got there a baby seal jumped, very scared, onto the nose of her male friend’s SUP. At that point she turned to swim back in and was grabbed.
Doesn’t this seem very far fetched? It does to me. Like, surfers trying to find justification for why they won’t get attacked.
Do you have any more information about this attack? Did you see the drone images of all the sharks hanging out in southern Orange County?
Yikes or who cares?
I think “mongoloid” is a racial slur mate. But if you want to use it on the mentally handicapped that’s your prerogative. You would have to be a bit of a cunt though.
My 16 y.o. son paddled right past her. He saw the event. She was swimming in the surf line then he heard the commotion, someone yelling shark and saw the blood in the water. He immediately paddled in and told people on the beach to call 911 because someone got attacked. He then saw her getting pulled out of the water and saw that her legged looked mangled with blood, fat, and bone. He said he will never forget what he saw. The initial accounts by Hunter Robinson were pretty accurate. There was a small seal swimming in the lineup but never heard it was jumping on someone’s board.
You curse a lot for someone who claims to be well traveled and of the highest educational pedigree but I really like this little website so maybe we can chat again in the future.
Yes. I’m flawed and first and foremost a troll. Thank you for arguing with me. Have fun, mate.
O_o
Why do I get the feeling that you might lack the proper enzymes required to metabolize alcohol?
Why do you hate Aboriginies mate?
Why do you use the term mongoloid as a demeaning slur?
Matty, here’s the thing. It’s awfully easy to virtue signal on an anonymous message board about the nobility of some utopic healthcare scheme when you are a resident of some insignificant island with no natural borders and a hyper-restrictive immigration program. It’s an entirely different matter here in the U.S., when the people who are claiming we need said utopic healthcare scheme are the same people who are simultaneously insisting that it’s our responsibility to absorb every person from every 3rd world rathole on the planet into our communities. In fact, it’s utter nonsense.
After reading a dozen or so of your comments on immigration in the comments section of a story about a shark attack, I can’t help but feel like you are a self-righteous asshole. American healthcare is fucked. Period. Yeah, Australia is an island. Correct. It, in fact has natural borders because of its status as thus. The US does not have natural borders, just schematic imaginary lines between Canada and Mexico. I know of another island. Cuba. 3rd world country. Far superior health care system than that of the US. Get off your high horse ya cunt. Also, I’m born and raised in the states and I’m sorry I have to share the term “American” with people like you.
Sir, go have another meatpie and stew in your own irrelevancy. I’m not sure what I find more distasteful, your Cuban apologia or your Keanu Reeves jock sniffing.
The only distasteful thing here is your hubris and apparent complete unawareness of such. Furthermore, Keanu Reeves is the hero of a generation and possibly the greatest actor to ever adorn screen and stage, you stooge. Good day, sir!
Don’t know if you caught the part about me living in the states. San Diego. Oceanside. I don’t eat meat pies, but I’m gonna go have a California burrito and surf this new South swell in the middle of the day because my life is dope and I do dope shit. Have fun marinating in your cubicle/loveless marriage ass-hat. I hope you get punched in the dick.
Dudes from San Diego are the softest people on earth.
Utah for the win.
Dude, how are you simultaneously commenting here AND riding your softtop in those San Diego ankle biters? Get out there and live the dope life.
Utopic healthcare system , or a health system that all western countries have embraced , in looking after their citizens no matter what their economic situation is , Obamacare a start to a civilized healthcare system . Hmm most of the USA population has come from your so called 3rd world ratholes , and that’s what makes Merica great , you actually have cosmopolitan culture!
So the nonsense is your perception that Australia is an insignificant Island , and the team America don’t take responsibility for their own and have a twisted view of actually what an American is!!
It’s absolutely fucked. However, it is absolutely fucked totally absent of my “whatabouttery”
this comment makes me think you might actually have a mullet
So it was a stand up paddle boarders fault then?
Absolutely. Everyone knows it is the obligation of the largest navigable vessel to provide sanctuary to seals and boogie board riders alike in times of threat.
Going to lowers tomorrow! Will update on the scene if I make it back alive.
RIP Mikey Chimz!
Not that far fetched. I had a baby seal jump on the nose of my board at a pretty crowded surf spot and I screamed like a girl. Everyone else in the water thought that was pretty damn funny. I guess we’re lucky no one got chomped that day.
A (presumably) mama sea lion yelled at me and splashed towards me in the lineup once. I exited as if pursued by shark.
The saddest part about this is the obligatory setting up of a gofundme account to pay for medical bills. Make America slightly less shit again and get a public health system ya cunts.
Let me guess, you live on an island that killed off all its aboriginal people and restrict refugees to offshore concentration camps.
A little appreciated fact: like the wretched Africans stolen and shipped to Brazil (four million or 35 per cent of the trade), America (500,000) and so forth, Australia was populated by men and women in chains. Oh you must read The Fatal Shore. http://www.clivejames.com/p…
One would think then that upon releasing those shackles you might be less inclined to inflict the same misery on others.
Mighty trade there was in White Devil Surf Trunks back yar then …
Oowee, made a hessian too!
Read it in 08 while spending a month in Cabarita. Fuckin’ brutal and intriguing stuff. Good pick Derek
Blood on the Wattle is another side of Australian history worth reading.
just blame the jews
Fucken idiot. Get a proper education or travel somewhere other than fucken Mexico on your holidays you dumb cunt.
Your fixation with American politics/culture/society proves how utterly irrelevant you feel. It’s understandable. You’re subjected to not only the authoritarian leadership of your own country but simultaneously that of the U.S.
Must suck.
No. We look on because you shove it down everyone’s throats. We pity you. Get real, cunt.
It’s more than looking on. It’s an unhealthy obsession. Be honest with yourself.
How many guesses would you like? That was a pretty shit first attempt.
On a related note, if you reckon the root of the American healthcare system’s problems is Juan from Jutiapa then I highly recommend starting up a gofundme thing so you can pay to get your head read.
You do realise you guys killed off WAY more native Americans than we killed Aborigines so… your argument is kinda fuckin bullshit and pointless. Oh and your country and culture is the laughing stock of the entire world. Good luck with that. haha
no the saddest part is the lady got her leg amputated , and the report about the seal on the SUP is correct , and she was swimming with fins near the SUP when the seal jumped onboard , the guy pushed it off , , the woman disappeared and then resurfaced with a big bite. The lowers crew are pretty shaken lotsa waves to be had as no-one sitting out the back except for some ild Australian areshole who keeps telling shark stories and chuckling…check out Shaww’s instgram and see the shark broaching this morning at lowers!!
Fuckin liberal pussy. You’re definitely not from OC!
haha! That’s supposed to be an insult!? wow
I’m scared to go to Southern California in general.