Land Shark!

[MrRING]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mysterious-blue-shark-found-hampshire-woods-132431689.html

Mysterious blue shark found in New Hampshire woods
By Liz Goodwin

Locals in the small town of Milton, New Hampshire are trying to figure out how a six-foot shark ended up in the region's woods.

Floyd Ellis told local station WMUR that his brother found the decomposing blue shark on Thursday. The closest ocean beach is a 45-minute drive away, so authorities think fishers without a license may have caught it there and then dumped it in the woods to decompose when they realized they might get in trouble for the catch.

Miltonites at a local pond told the station they had never heard of anything like it. One man suggested that the incident was likely a real-world extension of the Discovery Channel's annual summer roundup of shark-themed programming.

"It's totally Shark Week," the man said.

 

[GNC]

There was a porpoise found propped up in a cubicle of the gents toilets in Glasgow's Central Station back in the 1970s, which is a similar kind of thing but even more bizarre.

 

[LaurenChurchill]

Hmmm. Yeah there's definitely something fishy about this story.



Oh shut up! As if the joke wasn't begging to be made :lol:

 

[rynner2]

It's a fish fall - it came from the sky!

 

[colinbaker32]

Certainly a case of 'out of place items'.

I'd love to have seen the look on someones face when they first saw that.

 

[Zilch5]

Another "Land Shark" - almost exactly 2 years later! 8)

Shark Found At Pub Door On Nantucket

NANTUCKET, Mass. — A cleaning crew has found an unexpected mess after arriving at Sea Dog Brew Pub on Nantucket: a 5-foot-long shark blocking the door.

Pub manager Jimmy Agnew says he doesn't know why anyone would have dumped the sea creature there.

Nantucket's public works department hauled the dead shark away after its discovery around 7 a.m. Thursday.

But Agnew said the pub fielded calls and questions all day long after word got out about the land shark.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... weird-news

 

[Zilch5]

Another Land Shark - this time in the NY Subway - found with cigarette in mouth and a can of beer. Pictures at the ling

The Mustelus canis shark, referred to as the smooth dogfish, is known to skulk along the US Atlantic coast, off the beaches of Brazil and along the shores of northern Argentina.

It is not native to the ocean-blue seats of a Queens-bound New York City N train.

But there it was found on Wednesday morning, just after midnight, deceased beneath a seat, as passengers braved a stench that, even by the standards of the city's subway, might have driven them away under ordinary circumstances.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/shark-found ... z2bLFLca9p

 

[Mythopoeika]

Pictures at the ling

Ling? That's a fishy sounding link...

 

[Zilch5]

Pictures at the ling

Ling? That's a fishy sounding link...

I like Ling! There's a South African curry sauce that's awesome with it - throw in some veggies and rice and you have a very simple and delicious meal.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1131633/durban-curry

But yeah, I meant "link".

 

[ramonmercado]

I guess these count as land sharks.

In a scene resembling one's worst nightmare, a large group of sharks washed up on a North Carolina beach during a feeding frenzy last Thursday. The Sharknado-esque episode was all caught on video.

The incident was witnessed by leaders of the One Harbor Church retreat as they went out to fish at Cape Lookout National Seashore, a 56-mile stretch of preserve in the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina.

“The men were out fishing for the evening’s dinner when they stumbled across more than 100 sharks attacking a school of blue fish,” Brian Recker posted on YouTube. “As seagulls and pelicans joined in on the meal, the men began to cast into the surf, catching fish without the use of bait.”

“For more than five minutes, the sharks were observed swimming in and out of the surf, some of which became beached in the fury,” he added.

As the scene unfolded, Donnie Griggs – an avid waterman who often spearfishes, dives, swims, and surfs at Cape Lookout – captured the dramatic footage ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liijgHmbBzg

http://rt.com/usa/196648-north-carolina ... ng-frenzy/

 

[EnolaGaia]

A land shark was feared to be wandering around Wollongong until its tracking device was found.

Hunt for ‘shark’ running around Uni of Wollongong campus ends as satellite tracker found

Fears of a shark strolling around a university campus have subsided after the satellite tracker used to follow the beast was finally located.

A manhunt was underway through the week after researchers zeroed in on the 1.95m bull shark which was apparently recorded roaming the grounds of the University of Wollongong and even visiting one of the dorm rooms.

Fish Thinkers Research said the tag had recently detached off the Illawarra coast and was picked up on a nearby beach.

Its mystery journey came to an end on Friday afternoon when the tracking device was finally located. ...

FULL STORY: https://www.news.com.au/technology/...k/news-story/79e74f6d314286201dbc59d5caf3fa70