And just like that another southern California bite!
Remember when an angry mob pulled a baby white onto Huntington’s pier yesterday? Of course you do! I posted the story just minutes ago! Did the shark’s mama read, perhaps, and bite a nice girl in Pacific Palisades to the north?
Let’s now turn to KTLA!
Sophia Raab, 18, was paddling back to shore along Pacific Coast Highway and Sunset Boulevard about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday when she fell off board.
When Raab got back on her surf board, she described being in excruciating pain. She looked down at her leg and found a chunk of her thigh missing.
“I was standing up looking down at my leg and it was peeled open. I could see the inside of my leg,” she told KTLA. “It was the goriest sight I’ve seen in my entire life.”
“I have no idea how it happened,” she added.
With the help of other beachgoers, Raab managed to get back along PCH and into an ambulance. She was taken to a hospital, where she underwent surgery.
Raab suffered a laceration that was described as being 10 inches by 10 inches and 4 inches deep. Her orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, said the injury is consistent with a shark bite.
What is going on here? Are the inmates running the asylum? Is this armageddon?
Sophia Raab, smartly, changed her Instagram handle to @shark_bite_sophia. Now that is the sort of sharp marketing mind BeachGrit needs to lead us to The Inertia levels of fortune Chazz Michael Michael’s has promised.
Shark Bite Sophia? Are you there?
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The injury was caused by the novice surfer who fell hard upon her upturned surfboard and cutting her leg on the surfboard fin which was broken off.
It was not a shark attack, the bite would is in no way consistent with a shark bite. The angular V shaped scar is clearly and obviously a result of the broken off and sharpened surfboard skeg fin.
There are no teeth marks evident, nor a reciprocal and corresponding upper vs lower jaw injury or marks.
A slashing bite injury would leave teeth marks and lacerations that are very obvious to the trained eye.
While shark attack reports or sensationalized sightings reports may persuade or instruct people to stay out of the water, the reports actually increase beach attendance and boost business because it attacts people to the associated beaches in hopes of perhaps witnessing reported shark activity or presence.
Sting ray injuries are deliberately omitted or panned on via media and advertizer driven news reports due to concerns it may impact tourism because the injuries are painful and often serious but not as sensational or maliable as are over dramatized shark sightings and the occasional shark vs bather thematic.
Bonus question:
Questions:
What species of sea creature injures and hospitalizes more California beach goers and tourists than all other species combined?
Answers:
The stingray.
Stingrays injure and hospitalize more tourists and beach goers and surfers in California than all other species of marine vertibrate combined.
Stingray injuries have increased nearly 30% since 2005, this in keeping with rising abundance and population of tourists and beach goers utilizing the coastal zones, seashores and waterways.
These figures correspond with the increasing statistics for beach attendence and associated contingencies, boating accidents, accidental drownings and cliff edge falls and entrapment emergencies and water quality issues.
Learn More at the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation Facebook page and websites.
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my ex got a fin buried deep into her thigh, basically looked the same. Her scar looks exactly like the final stitch up.
Shark with a knife maybe?
Theories:
-she stabbed herself
-she was stabbed by one of those old heavy local guys who teach teenagers valuable life lessons
-she was stabbed by a shark who happened to be carrying a knife
-she was stabbed by some other form of sea life (octopus, bass etc)
-theInertia
Wow, I got barrelled at Lasserations just last week.
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Wait, now she has set up a gofundme page wanting $15,000 “to recover”? Is this the most blatant profiteering from a shark attack in history? Only in America…
I wonder if she was surfing during her period. Bait ball.
The Inertia has scaled such heights because they are Web Dorks. Somebody there obviously knows what they are doing when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and building an audience through shear Dorkery. Now I don’t want to ever see you stoop to such lows but there are things you can do without compromising your content. For example the above photo is uploaded with the filename “Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-9.49.31-AM”. The same filename on The Inertia is “sharkbite”, it might seem trivial but this is SEO101 and will help a lot in the long run.
“I have no idea how it happened,” she added.
K-hole.
I was shocked to read The Inertia had a bigger audience than our beloved Grit. Then I paddled out and looked at the crowd around me and thought “ooooh.. that’s why”
Coulda been Christian Fletcher…. better measure the bite radius..
All of this shark talk will be completely irrelevant when california gets blasted by the huge earthquake that is going to happen any day now. Eeriness.
The chances of a sharknado are increasing too.
she’s do-able!
The height and weight of the victim can only be estimated from the partial remains. The torso has been severed in mid-thorax; there are no major organs remaining… Right arm has been severed above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the upper musculature… partially denuded bone remaining… Well, this is no boat accident! And it wasn’t any propeller; and it wasn’t any coral reef; and it wasn’t Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.