Jackass-Style Shark Stunt Goes Horribly Wrong

New York Post ^ | January 14, 2014 | Greg Stolz

[Jack Hydrazine]

[peeps36]

I watched the making of Jaws on Discovery channel and they say that say that Shaw was three sheets to the wind much of the time. The other actors didn't know if he would make it through the scene.

[immadashell]

Wonder if they had Darwin Insurance....you know, the insurance designed to make your stupidity profitable for relatives and friends.

In any case they moved into contention for the top Darwin award (awarded to those people who have managed to turn back evolution) of 2014.

[JimSEA]

Gee, Shaun, I’m very sorry you are stupid. It must be a burden on those of average or better intelligence around you.

[driftless2]

I think you mean bow-legged women...as in the notoriously bawdy popular song from many years past which I won’t repeat here for the sake of decency.

[rlmorel]

"...Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water, shark's in the water, our shark? Fairwell and ado to u fair Spanish ladies, fairwell and ado u ladies of Spain...."

[rlmorel]

I had a chance (and privilege) to spend a few hours in conversation back in the early nineties with the man who was the ship’s doctor on the USS Indianapolis when she went down.

What struck me was he said he became a very religious man, but to that day so many years after the event, he couldn’t even say the Lord’s Prayer (because they had simply been saying it over and over again for days on end while in the water).

But what struck me even more was the intensity of his reaction nearly fifty years after the event. As he spoke, he became extremely emotional, his face became beet red, and he was extremely distressed. When I said “Please...don’t talk about it anymore” because I could see how upset he was, he insisted “No, I don’t talk about it much...never, really...”

I have seen emotional veterans, but the raw and powerful emotion was a shock to me.

Completely understandable, given his story.

[Magnum44]

Is birdcage on a head kind of like a pancake on a bunny?

[djf]

GoPro - we encourage dumbasses to prove it!!

[Jack Hydrazine]

I think so!

[PrairieLady2]

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

Top Ten Quin Quotes from Jaws. Includes the ones above. And it IS ‘bow-legged wimmin’ (misspelling intentional)

[Enterprise]

"I have seen emotional veterans, but the raw and powerful emotion was a shock to me."

A few years ago I was talking to a WWII Vet. He had been a Machinist's Mate in the Navy. He was sent ashore to assist the Marines during the invasions to fix vehicles that were damaged. His face showed the strain and horror, and I knew he couldn't talk about it. I dropped the subject.

[Moonman62]

...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

IIRC, Shaw was also a writer, and wrote many of the lines himself.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

Found this on Wikipedia: "Benchley had written Jaws after reading about sport fisherman Frank Mundus's capture of an enormous shark in 1964. According to Gottlieb, Quint was loosely based on Mundus, whose book Sportfishing for Sharks he read for research."

[packrat35]

Spending almost a whole week floating around in the ocean while most of the men are eatten by sharks could done that to a man.

[stlnative]

[Dr. Ursus]

He was great as the Russian assassin in From Russia with Love.

[jimt]

You’re right.

[gundog]

It was swimmin’, too.

[stylecouncilor]

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