Posted on 10/24/2012 9:38:56 PM PDT by Altariel
Imagine this: You're having a pleasant afternoon with your buddies, playing the links at San Juan Hills Golf Club.
You arrive at the 12th tee box at the San Juan Capistrano course and there you see it: A shark, very much alive and thrashing around on the grass.
OK, so it was only a 2-foot-long shark, but still.
"Shark falling from the sky, kind of odd," said Melissa McCormack, director of club operations at San Juan Hills.
The fish was actually found about 4 p.m. Monday by a golf course employee, who picked it up, put it into the back of his golf cart and drove it to the clubhouse, she said. A group of golfers had just left the tee before the shark was spotted.
The shark had two puncture wounds, which made McCormack think a predatory bird had scooped the fish up out of the water, dropping the shark down onto the course. She first relayed the story to the
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Holy Carp!
You are joking - right?
Sharks are not mammals, they are a species of fish called Elasmobranchs, not a boney fish as they have no bones, but have cartilage instead.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=327069
“Well, “fish” is not really a technical scientific term.”
“According to Merriam Webster, a fish is:”
“Quote:”
“any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated”
“”Fish” thus normally includes three different living classes of vertebrates: the Osteoichthyes, or bony fish; the Chondrichthyes, or cartilaginous fish (sharks and rays, as well as some odder groups such as chimeras), and the Agnata, or jawless fish (lampreys, hagfish, plus many early fossil forms). There is yet another class, the Placoderma, which includes armored fish that are all now extinct.”
“So yes, sharks are indeed fish, but a quite different kind of fish than a trout. The two are about as closely related as an elephant is to a turtle.”
So, you win.
I bet it was a dogfish.
They litter the beach by the hundreds in some areas of the Outer Banks.
Nah that were no shark, it was one of a foursome of lawyers trying to play through
I think I would be more scared of whatever “predatory bird” is flying around in PR that can take a 2 foot shark home for dinner.
They took the shark to the clubhouse? The shark was hunting gophers! Varmint Cong! Bill Murray is behind this!
Be grateful it wasn't armed with a laser.
What a great pic!
That carp looks like it is having a VERY bad day!
How do you know so much about swallows?
Ah ha ha! Greg Norman was just playing thru and nobody recognized him?
That bird definitely has balance.
Nice footwork, hanging five!
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