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Cue up John Williams famous two-note motif! Following Saturday's shark sighting in Rockaway, another shark reached the shores of New York in Coney Island. The summer went out with a bite, not a bang, as city lifeguard Marius Mironescu rescued a 2-foot sand shark from frenzied beach-goers yesterday. And as he swam the shark out to safety...the little guy gave him a bite.
"They were holding on to it and some people were actually hitting him, smacking his face. Well, I wasn't going to let them hurt the poor thing," he said.After a summer of mostly still waters, the sharks were out in full force this weekend. There was another small one spotted at South Beach in Staten Island on Sunday, and The Post reports that last Wednesday a man-eating mako shark was caught just a mile off the shore near the Rockaway reef. Two fisherman caught the 200-pounder after a one hour struggle at sea, one of them saying, "He was nasty. He opened his mouth. That's when we really got nervous. He had about 300 teeth - fuhgeddaboutit!"He carried the shark - a baby, he reckons, and harmless to humans - to a less populated area and started backstroking out to sea, dragging the shark with one hand.
"He was making believe like he's dead, then he wiggled his whole body and tried to bite me. He didn't get it," Mironescu said.
Photo of shark on Rockaway Beach in July via Pink & Purple's Flickr.
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Clearly, sharks are upset with how they have been depicted in films from Jaws to Shark Tale and are demanding payback.
Kill everything that doesn't look human!
Some people are soooooo STUPID,
Why would you punch a shark in the face when it has not bitten anybody and its out of teh watter...like sharks will understand human stupidity!?
Good deed by the probably only human with brain on that incident
Ahhh the news are then: we saw a shark!
Are sharks to just desapear from the water just because some fat bastards want to take a dip?
What is the pride in being a beast to other animals?
Like we don't polute enough!
Is a shark punch similar to a donkey punch?
is anybody here a marine biologist?
yay for marius!!!! thanks for saving the shark.
When I was a kid, we'd sometimes catch sand sharks using a drop line off a pier on Block Island. They were kind of neat to examine, and relatively harmless, and we'd throw 'em back.