Shark attack!
12 February 2004 13:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denNews services are full of stories about the latest shark attack, where the bloke drove to the surf lifesaving club with the wobbegong shark attached to his leg
Wobbegongs are not known for their attacks. They're better known as "hake" when they're encased in batter and deep fried. You really have to work at getting attacked by a wobbegong, almost to the point where you have to kick one in the face to make it bite you. People generally don't report wobbegong attacks. It's almost as embarrassing as being trapped in a wombat hole when the wombat presses its bum up against the roof and crushes you.
Australia is that kind of place.
Wobbegongs are not known for their attacks. They're better known as "hake" when they're encased in batter and deep fried. You really have to work at getting attacked by a wobbegong, almost to the point where you have to kick one in the face to make it bite you. People generally don't report wobbegong attacks. It's almost as embarrassing as being trapped in a wombat hole when the wombat presses its bum up against the roof and crushes you.
Australia is that kind of place.
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 02:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Feb 2004 02:20 (UTC)The answer is, "some of the sheep."
Maybe the guy was annoying the shark. :)
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 03:09 (UTC)"DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, VOLUME 29C, PART THREE."
Mosses and lichens are the only ones I can't think of a dangerous real life version.
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 05:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Feb 2004 02:36 (UTC)But yeah, he had to be doing something to piss it off.
Australia is that kind of place. And other kinds as well.
Why is it that my friends seem less likely to visit when I tell them about the poisonous spiders and snakes? It's not as if most places people reside and work are crawling with them...okay, there are redbacks here and there under toilet seats, but still...
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 03:10 (UTC)From now on it's *NOT* an Australian shark attack until an extreme athletic professional surfer or something (Like Tony Hawk, for example) is hauled dying onto the deck of a trawler and dies gasping "Had to beat the bloody thing off me with the stump of me severed left arm, matey, aaaaaaaaaargggh! Had eyes like dinner plates and four rows of gnashers! Oh the horror!" . Or something like that,and really winds up dead. and if they can prove the shark *didn't* mistake the person for a seal, then maybe they have a case. But how do you try a fish? That aside:D......
This sort of thing just scares people into killing off innocent members of safe shark species so other people can feel safe even if they have never been in water over their heads at the beach all their lives!
Ok, I'll quit ranting while I am ahead:).
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 04:20 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Feb 2004 05:47 (UTC)it sertanly looks like noraml fish fillets, unless they cut
them specificly.
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 06:19 (UTC)Re:
Date: 12 Feb 2004 07:05 (UTC)they are commeting an ofence by misslabling
there fish.. new laws where brought in Australia
wide a few years ago, to combat the confusion
from differnt areas having differnt names for
the differnt fish.. though having growen up in
Cannbera and spent a lot of time in outer NSW,
ive neever seen any form of shark sold as
hake, only flake.
"flake" is the common name for all shark
that can be sold comerasaly.
http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/rec/fish/wobbegong.htm
http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/rec/fish/gemfish.htm
*Gemfish are also known as Hake.*
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/mediareleasespublications/factsheets/factsheets2001/mercuryinfishadvisor1415.cfm
The advice for pregnant women to moderate fish intake relates only to the large fish, like shark/flake, ray, swordfish, barramundi, gemfish, orange roughy, ling, and southern bluefin tuna.
...
**Note that flake should not be confused with hake, which is a small white fish that does not have higher mercury levels.**
http://www.deepcove.co.nz/ProdDisp.cfm?DispProd=10
Hake (Merluccius australis)
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Date: 12 Feb 2004 08:23 (UTC)Sounds like "hokey".
:)
(Wobbegong, huh? Ugly buggers, sit on the bottom looking like... well... the bottom of the sea, a lot?)
Bizzare injuries that go unreported
Date: 12 Feb 2004 06:13 (UTC)I was doing my Paramedic residency when a guy came in with a "foreign" object (not a cock) stuck up his bum. I didn't get the details until I heard the radiologist dictating the results:
"In the descending sigmoidal colon is a small, cylindrical object approximately 1cm by 8cm, resembling a penlight flashlight. Within this object are two smaller, similar cylindrical objects approximatly .75cm by 7cm, resembling batteries. Conclusion: it cannot be concluded at this time whether the flashilight is on or off..." He grinned as he said that, and I lost it. Unprofessional as it was, all that could be heard throughout the ER in the wee hours of the morning was a grizzly bear bellowing...
Apparently the guy had heard burglars in his garage, and with trusty flashlight in hand, he went forth (naked) to challenge them. Big mistake... Apparently they'd done time in prison, and he looked, well, "fay," so they knew just what to do.
There is a happy "ending" to the story: the surgeon sedated the guy and removed the flashlight with forceps normally used to deliver babies without having to cut him. Oh -- and the light was "on."
Re: Bizzare injuries that go unreported
Date: 12 Feb 2004 08:34 (UTC)Re: Bizzare injuries that go unreported
Date: 12 Feb 2004 13:22 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Feb 2004 06:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Feb 2004 09:58 (UTC)And besides, if someone trod on me, I think I'd bite their leg too.