Houston fisherman, posing with shark, gets bitten

Houston Chronicle ^ | 8.29.03 | Richard Stewart

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FREEPORT -- A Houston man was transported by LifeFlight helicopter today to a Houston hospital after a shark he had just caught turned around and bit him on the arm.

"He wanted to have a picture taken with it," said Susan Scott, at Bridge Bait on the Intercoastal Canal and Highway 332. When he held it up for the camera, the shark turned around and bit his right arm, she said. Scott said friends brought the bleeding man into the boat landing this afternoon.

"He was all wrapped up in a towel and blood was going everywhere," she said.

People who were gathered put the man, who was not identified, on a table and waited for the helicopter to pick him up. It arrived about 20 minutes later.

He and his friends apparently landed the 3 1/2-foot bull shark about a 1 1/2 miles offshore, Scott said.

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[4mycountry]

[4mycountry]

>>>"He was all wrapped up in a towel and blood was going everywhere," she said.

If I've told you once, I've told you a million times, mummification will not stop bleeding!!!

[RichInOC]

Rule One of shark fishing: Before you pose for a trophy photo with your shark, make sure the motherbleeper's dead.

[Grammy]

I nominate this guy for a Darwin runner up.

Is there a second to the motion?

[cyborg]

GOOD for the shark... what a dumb a$$. You do not pose with hunted quarry. You eat it. Chop that fin off shuck the meat off of it and make some soup.

[Double Tap]

Second.

[RLK]

GOOD for the shark... what a dumb a$$. You do not pose with hunted quarry. You eat it. Chop that fin off shuck the meat off of it and make some soup.

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Sharks need to be bled immediately after being cauht. Then, they make excellent steaks. In some areas people hit the steaks with cookie cutters and sell the round pieces as scallops. Cook them in butter.

[StriperSniper]

I knew there had to be more to the story than I saw on the tube. They all said that he brought it into the boat to cut the line to release it. You NEVER bring a green shark on board, especially a nasty bugger like a Bull!

[Imal]

He and his friends apparently landed the 3 1/2-foot bull shark

Not a very big shark, but obviously big enough to kick this guy's ass. :^P

[ladysusan]

He was all wrapped up in a towel and blood was going everywhere," she said.

If I've told you once, I've told you a million times, mummification will not stop bleeding!!!

Dear Lord, ain't it the truth???? Doesn't anyone know how to stop bleeding anymore? You apply direct pressure to the wound, fer crying out loud!!!!!!

[JennysCool]

Them Houston peeps is smarrrrrt!

[1stFreedom]

I recently caught a catfish and and eel. I placed them in a 5 gallon bucket with little iced water. I figured that they would be dead from lack of oxygen eventually. I figured the cold water would make them last a little longer. Well, after a few hours I put them in the back of my van and I noticed the eel was moving but the catfish was not.

I got home and beat the catfish on the ground quite a few times. I take it upstairs and put it on the counter to clean it out. The damn thing starts moving and gasping for air! So I proceed to beat the crap out of it's head with a knife sharpening rod and then immediately cut he head off.

If a freaking little catfish did that, you bet I'd play pinata with a shark for quite a while before even thinking of taking a picture.

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candygram

[montag813]

"He wanted to have a picture taken with it,"

WELL....SO WHERE'S THE DAMN PHOTO????

[Tamzee]

Landshark...

[razorbak]

Catfish can live for hours in a rolled up wet newspaper. After you cut their heads off, it is amazing how long those disembodied heads keep gasping for air.

[RepoGirl]

"Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'..."

Capt. Quint, Jaws

[Atchafalaya]

I'm in!