Fate strikes.
Fate is a wily beast, man. It has a way of lulling folks like you, I, or a fifteen-year-old New Jersey girl into a worn out old rut. The sun comes up. The sun goes down. The hours in between are spent more or less the same. Scrolling news to find surf related stories, drinking a glass of refreshing Athletic Greens, scrolling some more, making an Americano, finding one, publishing it, looking at World Surf League Chief Executive Erik Logan’s Instagram, looking at World Surf League Sport Chief Jessi Miley-Dyer’s too, rinse, repeat.
The magic sorta drains away, you know? Surprise but an old folktale.
And BOOM!
That’s when fate strikes.
Take the aforementioned teen, one Maggie Drozdowski who just so happened to be surfing in Stone Harbor with a friend when she felt… something.
“I felt something around my foot, and it pulled me down a little bit,” she told the local Fox News affiliate. “I shook my leg as hard as I could to get it off, but it just wouldn’t.”
Her friend, Sarah O’Donnell, said, “I went over the wave and she went under it, she screamed and I turned around because I thought she was drowning or something, but she got up and she said ‘I think something bit me.”
Something is right. A toothy, nasty shark.
Drozdowski was transported to a local hospital where she received not nearly as many stitches as she might have had she not been wearing a wetsuit, though she was still stunned the by encounter.
“I’m just in shock, I just thought that wouldn’t be something that would ever happen to me because I watched all the Jaws movies and stuff, and I thought it was a joke,” she concluded.
Fate, man. A cagey weirdo.
New Jersey officials, in any case, have not closed the beach but have warned surfers that they might be next.
The last unprovoked shark attack in New Jersey was in 2017.
BeachGrit’s gory years.
I meant glory years.
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She was from PA and riding a soft top. She got what was coming to her. This is also perfect timing to keep the shoobies out of the water with the upcoming holiday weekend.
I wish I could buy that shark a beer
One less surfer in the water maybe two. Not all heroes wear capes.
What do you have against surfers? I love sharks and surf and have no qualms putting holes in someone making light of shark attacks.
Having grown up in south jersey, the sharks are the least of the problems. The real danger lurks on the boardwalk where angry beavers abound!
Although, if you can somehow ignore the grating accent and unfounded anger, fun can be had pretty easily .
She is going to need a bigger board
She will be living off this joke encounter for a short time on social media. Before of course she gets slaughtered to the point of death soon after. Lucky for her the beast from the deep had a sense of humour and gave her a foot massage.
Snookie wants smoosh smoosh!