Beach-walker makes gruesome discover of leg, with bootie, on remote beach…
A beach-walker made a gruesome discovery this afternoon when the skeletal remains of a leg with a bootie attached was found washed ashore near the town of Mylestom on Australia’s mid-north coast.
Investigators suspect the leg came from a surfer, diver or swimmer – but how many swimmers wear booties? – and was the result of a shark attack.
Mylestom is a pretty little hamlet, population three hundred and thirty nine, near the mouth of the Bellinger River and half-an-hour’s drive south of Coffs Harbour on NSW’s mid-north coast.
Police were called to the town’s North Beach at two pm, forensics shot some photos and the bones were removed before high tide. Police are now combing through missing persons reports for a possible match.
The last fatal shark attack at North Beach happened eighty-one years ago, almost to the day, when swimmer Daniel Graham was attacked and killed on December 28, 1938.
Six years ago, bodyboarder Zach Young, who was nineteen, was attacked and killed at nearby Campbells Beach, twenty miles north.
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These discussion threads are becoming more hectic than a one legged man in an @$$ kicking competition. Maybe he lost ?. .
In 1935 Sydney had the Shark Arm Case where the tattooed arm of a Sydney gangster was found in a shark stomach. They worked out the person who had previously owned the arm and then the murderer.
Not sure if thats an ad for tattoos but these days we have DNA so rely on that and ease up on the tattoos if you would be concerned about losing contact with an appendage.
It’s highly unlikely that this case will see an on land offender. More an aquatic one given there are more sharks in Auustralian waters than ever despite what an Amercican coral researcher in Queensland ‘discovered’ recently
Lets call him GEORGE OF THE SOUTH. He looked at Qld Shark Control drumline data where dolphins were doing what dolphins do well and were taking the baits off drumline hooks so nothing would be caught hence the reduced shark ‘discovery’. That’s up there with Henny Penny and the sky falling down for a ‘discovery’. Yet that is the state of what used to be called science.
A group of surfers saw a man being attacked by a shark at Coffs Harbour yesterday. He was in a pool of blood shouting “Is that all you’ve got? Come back here you coward!”. When asked if he needed help he replied “It’s nothing, just a scratch”.
best thing in that news flash was the cops bogged to the axles with the tide coming in.
And here it was, just thee other day here in L.A.
that i had wondered: how come, with all the hundreds, err thousands of people’s whom recreate
daily in Thee Oceans world~wide, they were not bitten, nor consumed by man-eating sharks,
as Chas Smith likes to call them them apex predators?
Now this story comes about, which remindz me of this, below:
https://youtu.be/CiyanUngrc…
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.u…
This photo is real, Meee~ister Cohen,
a dude who liked to swim when GWS were spotted, got bitten, lost a leg, etc…
Link:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/ne…
Vid too:
https://video.nationalgeogr…
Another pic,
to remind you boyz+girlz of the potential danger you face,
any time you paddle out, for you whom luv recreating in thee ocean, ok?
BG covered this attack, i seem to recall…
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Wasn’t this pic from Port Edward (or Coffee Bay?) on the SE coast of SOuth Africa?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
what up, phat~wanker?
hahaha, cool~io vid!
here’s a photo screen~grab, saved, for your approval, seen in Huntington, in ’13:
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
it is not a GWS…
ltz, rw
Cinderella never tasted so good
Waiting for BG to sponsor Shark Week on Animal Planet.
GWs travel pretty far on a yearly basis, so it could be South African for all we know.
Imagine if the guy is still alive and is reunited with his missing lower limb after it was vomited up by a Noah, years later.
It would be LEG-END-ary.
The cops have a leg up this one!
Could have no arms or legs and just be called bob
and we find out his name is…skip
or peg
or Eileen
or Irene, but in Japan
Isn’t that near our lid riding raconteur?
Tragic accident …. just wondering how many surfers wear booties , even in winter , on the mid north coast . One is much more likely to be melted in these parts than strike an iceberg ?
Could be a half eaten flipper
I thought it was human, not a dolphin?!
They don’t know yet
They could mean a thigh with half a booty still arttached
It’s a pity when things are done half-arsed.