The plot thickens...
Was it yesterday, or two days ago, that we first learned about the heart-wrenching tale of a near-10-foot long female Great White shark that was allegedly netted and dragged to a New Zealand beach to die?
Time and events related to the “man-eating” apex predators, their various escapades, their man-eating etc. are starting to blur but we must not be deterred, we cannot be deterred because then the terrorists win.
But who are the terrorists in this particular New Zealand case? The Great White, who likely man-eats or would man-eat if given the opportunity, or the men, who allegedly netted, dragged, kicked and mocked as she lay there on the sand?
New Zealand’s proud government has just launched an official investigation into the matter and let us go straight to RNZ for first hand accounts.
The juvenile shark was caught in a fishing net off Orewa Beach in northern Auckland yesterday and died despite bystanders’ attempts to help.
Men who were fishing in the surf caught the 2.75m great white in a net and hauled it to shore.
A woman who was at the beach told RNZ that the group seemed intent on keeping the shark and acted in an intimidating way towards those who wanted to return it to the water.
She asked not to be identified.
“They were touching it, rolling it [and] the big fat guy did kick it,” she said.
“It was just disrespectful, and it was probably, like, intimidation as well. And that was the same guy that asked for someone to go get a knife.”
But the woman’s husband and surf lifeguards managed to pull the shark into water deep enough for it to float.
“When my husband and the lifeguards pulled it out, they were just taunting them and kicking water at them and just basically trying to get them not to take it out.”
When the shark didn’t swim off, she says the men who caught it dragged it back to shore after a minute or two.
She said she wished they’d given it more time to recuperate – even though it was probably too late to save it.
The sharks body lies in state in a university freezer.
And like the current perilous ratcheting up of tension between shark and man very much mirrors the situation between The United States of America and Iran. Retaliation expected etc. but will it be symmetrical or will the prehistoric beasts eat 20 of the world’s top 24 professional surfers before the start of their 2020 Championship Tour?
Let’s not speculate wildly. Let’s follow the evidence where it leads and hope for peace in our time.
Disgusted by such inhumane act
Yay
That one made sense!
Feed them to the sharks.
I’m not even kidding.
When you venture close to land you are in man’s habitat. Sharks should not be upset when netted. The real apex predator in shallow waters is always the fat guy with a knife.
Was this written by a 10 year old? Flippant disrespectful journalism just as disgusting as the crime being reported.
There’s a big difference between instinct and intentional cruelty. Instinct to feed on seals which humans are mistaken for
Sharks eat people ….what’s the deal??
They don’t “eat” people. All shark attacks, the victim has one large bite, not multiple as if the shark is trying to eat them. We are not on the sharks’ menu, only some get the opportunity to interact with humans and even then, most don’t attack. The deal is sharks play an important role to the marine ecosystem as the apex predator, and with shark finning occurring basically everywhere, the population of sharks is decreasing. It’s not good for anyone on this planet.
Jack Cousteau over here.
“All shark attacks, the victim has one large bite”
Bullshit. You made this codwollop up. Plenty of humans and parts of humans are eaten by sharks.
Obviously you didn’t research this…. Three types of unprovoked shark attacks: “hit and run” which is the most common, where the shark BITES ONCE and then leaves, “sneak attack” where the shark plans on consuming the victim and the victim will have multiple bites but this occurs RARELY, and “bump and bite” where the shark bumps the victim and then bites, and will bite again based on the victim’s reaction, this is also very UNCOMMON. Please, do some of the work yourself next time.
I’ve been doing the work my whole adult life. I’m a shark attack survivor. I’ve had a friend eaten. Body parts are regularly found in sharks. I had my forearm and calf eaten by a shark. Ask Bethany Hamilton where the fuck her arm went. You’re re publishing shark hugger misinformation. You obviously don’t know shit about this subject.
Only 100?
Maybe it’s time to reconsider reinstating and invoking the death penalty again? If these savages do this to defenceless animals, what are they capable of doing to other people and or children? Society doesn’t need savages, we need human beings with a heart, compassion, etc.
The world has far too many scoundrels, it’s time to start executing the excess garbage on the earth.
Calling sharks man-eaters is just stupid. The best you could call them is man-tasters. In most cases humans have only been bitten once. After tasting us they realize we taste like crap.
People kill more ppl than sharks the sea is there home they were designed to live in the sea humans weren’t….
Humans are aquatic apes. Our earliest ancestors foraged the intertidal and subtidal zones acquiring a high protein seafood diet that led to our large brains.
Humans are true sick .
red headed fat kids, with freckles
Abominations
More people are killed by cows than sharks in
a year. Sharks aren’t brainless killing machines, they usually attack people because they mistake them for seals. Sharks have a bad wrap unfortunately, and they don’t deserve it
It’s this kind of misleading statistic that can have deadly consequences. Tell that to the surf community of Reunion. Surfers who spend hours of time in the water on a weekly basis have a far greater chance of being killed or maimed by a shark than by a cow. Taken across the population of the world your statistic may be true but it is irrelevant of when talking about surfers or divers as a group. Out of my group of childhood friends one has been killed and two maimed by sharks. None have been hurt by cows.
If you want to compare some data you need to compare “humans killed by sharks” and “sharks killed by humans”… Of course we’re approximately 7 billions of individuals and, I believe, sharks have a smaller population.
That too is a misleading comparison. Hundreds off species of sharks are fished, while only three types make up the vast majority of fatal attacks on humans. At least one of those species is protected in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Namibia, Malta and South Africa.
The sea is the habitat of the shark. Don’t be a cry baby if get bit, that’s the risk you take if spend prolonged periods of time in their habitat looking like a tasty seal.
Not being a “cry baby”. Merely discussing facts. I do agree, seals are tasty.
Dumbest retort ever.
Like saying “the Earth is the habitat of rapists…”
Not it’s not. your logic is ridiculous. While it’s not my job to educate idiots like you, I will try to make this as simple as possible. The “natural” habitat for the shark is the sea, they are a water based animal. People, and chimps like you, are land based animals, our natural habitat is on the land, and you, the trees, that’s how we have evolved. Not if you don’t like scientific fact, you’re a lost cause.
Never reproduce, that “logic” if it can even be called that is so flawed I dare not think of how backwards the kids would be
What are the flaws?
I have been injured by a cow when surfing.
While long-boarding in Waikiki, a tourist shouted “Cowabunga” and my earnest water-man sensibilities were slightly bruised by the chance of someone perceiving an association of my good self, with such a lowly person.
I hope you die in a hole with no friends. We are talking about a misunderstood, sentient creature who has less chance of killing than being killed. More people are killed by coconuts than by sharks. I am sorry that you have seen your friends suffer and die, but you are just heartless. Check your statistics 😁
Your statistic is misleading. There are orders of magnitude more people walking around under coconut palms than there are people spending time surfing. Much of the reason they are misunderstood is because of compromised scientists who’s research is funded buy ultra conservationists and because of knee jerk “kill em all” reactionists.
it wouldve been funny is the concerned woman dragged the shark out to sea, allowed it to recuperage, then the shark, once recuperated, ate her!
Just funny!
humans put the nets there.
this is disgraceful cruelty
Absolutely sad. This is wildlife and those men are in there territory. Leave the wildlife alone those men should be charged with murder!!
Stupid shark shouldn’t have come so close. I’m glad it died.
Wonder if the lady would have minded me making love to the shark?
Headline should read- Beached whale kicks Great White.
Bon app cuzzies!!!