Notes for the apocalypse.
I wander through this life quietly making mental notes about who I want to be around during the apocalypse. Who cuts and runs versus who stands and faces situations dire and scary. It’s often surprising, you know. Men standing tall and proud will abandon a scene at a sniff that it might go sideways. Women seemingly meek and mild will roar like lionesses and fear no action.
That’s why mental notes and I would very much like to have the hero who, days, ago freed a baby great white shark caught in a fishing line on Carlsbad’s Tamarack.
The scene was captured by a beachgoer named Kelly Bailey who told Fox 5 News, “I was walking over towards the Jetty where my son and his cousins were exploring and I noticed a fishing line pulling from far out in the water. I then saw a man reeling in a large marine reel and another man running towards the water with a spear. After the man was fighting to reel in what we all thought was a sport fish, was told by the other man holding the spear that it was in fact a shark.”
Yes, a baby great white shark teeth gleaming in the June gloom, head whipping to and fro trying to find a snack.
The hero, though, is completely unperturbed and deftly goes to work freeing the beast then dragging out to sea.
Very cool under pressure.
And while I surf the general region, and imagine this li’l man-eater is swimming around with much rage, the hero’s poise and desire to throw himself in harm’s way to help a creature makes me proud.
His family and friends lucky come apocalypse time.
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the news feed is so full of exciting news too… San Diego is all set on water??? really?? and some asshole threw tortillas at a latino basketball game.. that is funny as fuck, how does one become such a total fucking asshole.. like there is no chance for redemption when you do something like that.. ERES asshole, not ESTA asshole.. solo ERES
The Inertia is a place where my triggers flare and I just throw up my hands and say: “This is so gay!” But then I chastise myself for equaling gayness for lame lameness. But then I try to recollect myself and find a new adjective but fail hardily. The inertia is straight-up gay
I used to say that Hummers and their owners were totally “gay”…and they are. However in my 40s I’ve mellowed out and become slightly more woke. Now Hummers and their owners are just retarded. The exception being the new electric Hummers. I could see myself rolling up in one to the Bolsa Chica lot iwith my 6’8 fat guy thruster, my kids body board and a cooler full of illegal beer.
I’ll be watching the apocalypse on FOX, they’ll keep it real, sexy.
thank god they weren’t white people
This guy was truly bonkers to do that. However, it kinda seems like he has handled dangerous wild animals before. I would have let the little bastard drown
I was in a van with about ten of my people, after a flight. Someone accidentally set off the fire extinguisher and the girl in the very rear seat climbed over everyone, pulling hair, grabbing whatever to make her escape. She made my list that day.
My people?
Charles Manson junior over here.
I like my helters and skelters
good to have you back Charles. shark stories have few and far between in recent times .
perhaps that is your own doing by setting the bar so high.
side note, can you ask negs if he can show some arse crack and dust off the plunger . i could be imagining it, but there seems be an increase in the backed up stoolage of bowl trolls.
Yeah there’s been quite afew lately. But since clicking on the link and investing they’re saying I’m going be a millionaire.
If you listen to the video, you can hear the shark scream: “sups suck!”
What’s even more heroic is that that is not a juvenile Great White Shark. Nope. It’s an adult. A midget, but still an adult. I wonder if he would have acted differently had he known.
Truly heroic, releasing a shark at Tamarack, a spot overun with VALS.
He should take his act to other overcrowded California spots, like Trestles, South Bay, Malibu, and Rincon, and release more sharks.
and perhaps hand out free wax . call it “get a grip”, and it’s secret ingredient is seal blubber.