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Neighbors discover 4-foot shark while on daily desert walk
Hesperia Star ^
| 27 June 2006
| PETER DAY
Posted on 06/28/2006 4:11:55 PM PDT by Marius3188
Neighbors Richard Doornbos and Al Embry have stumbled upon numerous mysteries of the Mojave Desert, but never anything like this.
Last week, while walking in a large vacant field across from Sultana High School near G Avenue, the two found a 4-foot-long and ominously unmistakeable shark. The fish, which appeared to have been dumped just hours before, bore large spotted markings.
A cursory Internet search suggests the shark is a Leopard Shark, a member of the triakidae family of houndsharks that might be displayed in an aquarium. But the size of this specimen suggests it would be much too large for just any living room fish bowl.
Doornbos, a Hesperia Star columnist, and Embry believe the shark may have been caught on a deep sea fishing trip. Perhaps the fisherman brought it home to Hesperia and sent it swimming in the family pool, only to die a freshwater, chlorinated death.
Undoubtedly Doornbos and Embry will encounter future desert mysteries, but they don’t expect another big fish story like this.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: desert; shark
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To: Marius3188
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:12:44 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: Marius3188
Somebody "dumped the shark."
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:15:02 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(A libertarian is a conservative who has been mugged ...by his own government)
To: spanalot
Yeah, I've seen those a few times. Also the Tree Shark and the Lawn Shark. Yawn. :^)
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:16:17 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: spanalot
Baby basking shark!
Just damn! every time one of those sharks tries to improve himself by growing legs, the Man shuts him down.
To: sourcery
"dumped the shark."Good one.
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:17:49 PM PDT
by
guitar4jesus
(Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
To: Dumpster Baby
little lawyers in the desert?
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:18:12 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!)
To: Marius3188
Was Dan Ackyrod near by?
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:18:25 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: Lakeshark; Borax Queen
Sounds like a shark fantasy came to a bad end. LOL!
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:18:29 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: Marius3188
To: spanalot
To: Marius3188
Somebody contact Geraldo, he can figure it out.
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:21:44 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
To: Marius3188
Doornbos, a Hesperia Star columnist, and Embry believe the shark may have been caught on a deep sea fishing trip. Perhaps the fisherman brought it home to Hesperia and sent it swimming in the family pool, only to die a freshwater, chlorinated death. Sure, lots of people that have the equipment to go deep-sea fishing and keep a shark alive long enough to dump in a swimming pool don't know the difference between sea and fresh water.< /s>
Oh yeah, pity about the waste of meat. I don't care if it was a pet, shark ain't bad eatin.
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:22:16 PM PDT
by
Dosa26
To: Marius3188
Four feet? Sounds like a missing link.
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:23:29 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(MSM: America's one party press)
To: ChessExpert
Leopard shark, not this one in particular
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:30:54 PM PDT
by
Dosa26
(p-q4)
To: spanalot
Who remembers:
Muuud Sh Sh Shaaaark
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posted on
06/28/2006 4:42:06 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: Marius3188
I welcome our new flying shark overlords!
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posted on
06/28/2006 5:25:42 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: Marius3188
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posted on
06/28/2006 5:35:08 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
To: spanalot
Well, certainly not me. Wasn't there. Didn't see a thing.
"Talk about your hemorrhoids, baby..."
To: sweetliberty; Lakeshark
Oh my.
slithering away silently
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