Blood in the water.
Central Florida, best known for the NBA bubble, Kirsten Dunst, The Backstreet Boys, Wesley Snipes and tutti-frutti ice-cream, is not very well known for waves. Certainly they appear on the ocean there, mainly around New Smyrna, but are rarely large or powerful save hurricane season when robust storms whip delightful nuggets toward shore.
Yesterday, a “red flag” day across Volusia County featuring those delightful nuggets, thrilled surfers from Daytona to Melbourne Beach, also Denver, and saw many surfers in the water.
The region’s sharks, notoriously incorrigible, took advantage of the influx and bit not one but two surfers within a short few hour period.
The first was a mostly innocent 15-year-old boy who happened to be paddling out at Ponce Inlet at 10:45 in the morning. The shark bit his hand as hard as it could and left many ouchies though the boy refused medical attention.
The second occurred in Melbourne Beach where an adult male had his arm bitten so severely that it caused much bleeding and a hospital visit was required.
Sharks don’t generally kill people in Central Florida but two hits in one day that featured waves is… not cool at all and should be looked into by the authorities.
What I really wonder, though, is what happened to Wesley Snipes? He starred in so many important movies in the late 1980s through the 1990s but then disappeared, more or less. What was your favorite Snipes vehicle? I saw Demolition Man in the theater and enjoyed it very much. I also thought the actor carried Michael Jackson’s music video “Bad.”
Did you know “Bad” was directed by Martin Scorsese?
Weird.
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White Men Can’t Jump. That flick brought momma jokes mainstream. Changed everything.
Demolition Man was an eerily prescient satire. His character was Beach Grit personified.
What Saudi has done is unforgivable. And available everywhere!
hahaha!
I’d like to know if Wesley Snipes has a brother named Wiggolly.
And White Men Can’t Jump or Passenger 57. “Always bet on Black” great line.
Wesley Snipes became somewhat of a bull shark story. He thought paying taxes was bull. Sharks in suits prosecuted his dodgy ass. He went to jail for three years to hang out with other predators. Now he’s back feeding in the shallow waters of Hollywood.
The Expendables 3 was an abomination..
You watched those?!? You know you permanently lost those 6 hours of your life, right? No getting them back. (Makes me think about how many hours I’ve spent in these comments.)
Haha nah, only 3 and it was because Snipes was in it!
I blame his dumbass lawyers…
Just had to borrow that glove off OJ and he’d have got off, no way his giant hands were squeezing in to that
I liked that vampire movie