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...video under FWC scrutiny, hammerhead shark shot, killed [Florida Media Meltdown]
WFLA-TV ^ | 8/3/17 | Peter Bernard

Posted on 08/04/2017 2:44:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

.....another controversial video is out there involving marine life and young men.

This time, instead of dragging a shark behind a speeding boat, this latest clip shows two young men using a gun to kill a hammerhead....

(Excerpt) Read more at wfla.com ...


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Florida media is going crazy over "shark torture" videos.

The same media that defends the dilation and extraction of human beings...the murder of babies.

1 posted on 08/04/2017 2:44:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well, shades of Ernest Hemingway, who enjoyed shooting sharks with a Thompson submachine gun...


2 posted on 08/04/2017 3:07:43 AM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

When I lived in Fla, many years ago, shooting a shark was a perfectly normal thing to do.

People used to fish for sharks off the bridges only to drag them to the shore and kill them. It was just something to do on a hot summer night.

A 1/4” nylon rope with a wire leader, small inner tube for a bobber, and a rotten chicken for bait. Great fun on Tampa’s Gandy bridge.


3 posted on 08/04/2017 3:16:57 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I though of skeet shooting flying fish but decided against it.
PETA would make me in to a criminal


4 posted on 08/04/2017 3:20:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Beagle8U

Off the Anna Maria city Pier, (south side of Tampa Bay) some guy years ago caught about a 28 foot great white.
They killed it and still have a fiberglass model of it there.


5 posted on 08/04/2017 3:24:48 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This from the shark bite capital of North America


6 posted on 08/04/2017 3:31:06 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Cool, when was that?


7 posted on 08/04/2017 3:32:29 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: Joe Boucher

There are large great whites. None that big. 28 foot? That is a baby megaladon.


8 posted on 08/04/2017 3:33:23 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

Pretty sure the “big one” was caught at the rod and reel pier and it was a hammerhead. The Great White was caught at Longboat Pass. Both were big, neither was 28” though.


9 posted on 08/04/2017 4:05:35 AM PDT by prov1813man
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To: SoFloFreeper

Post and defend, good for you.
Sharks are a benefit to the eco chain.
If they are dangerous to beach goers, another story along with the food table.
Killing for the thrill of anything is sick.

I hope they are prosecuted and their fishing rights are revoked along with the gun privileges.

Stupid is as stupid does.
Stupid is filming illegal acts and than making them public.


10 posted on 08/04/2017 4:18:08 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: W.

Wasn’t Hemingway a certified drunk ?


11 posted on 08/04/2017 4:19:15 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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Yeah, because hammerhead sharks are few and far between.

Did you ever think that the reason that so many sharks are coming to shore is because the population is driving them to new waters looking for food?

12 posted on 08/04/2017 4:40:12 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: prov1813man

Went fishing in the Tampa bays. Visiting my parents who lived in Clearwater back in 1974. Took my kid brother. Kids on the beach would tie big baits to their lines and tie balloons to their line to get the bait way out there. To catch hammerheads was there response when asked.


13 posted on 08/04/2017 4:41:24 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: CGASMIA68
Wasn’t Hemingway a certified drunk

I think he was better known as a writer.

14 posted on 08/04/2017 4:41:29 AM PDT by Blennos ( As)
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To: Joe Boucher

I was standing (throwing lures) waist-deep in that channel on the south end of Anna Marie and my nephew (et al) witnessed a fairly large shark pass directly behind me. I didn’t even know it was there and I heard some yelling, turned around and there were several people standing on the beach pointing and yelling shark! shark! Then I saw the dorsal.

A slightly different ending would have been a great fish story from a one-legged man. I am guessing that shark wasn’t particularly hungry that afternoon...


15 posted on 08/04/2017 4:48:49 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: CGASMIA68
Wasn’t Hemingway a certified drunk ?

As far as I know, there are only two organizations that can certify...DMV and AA.

So, did he collect too many DUIs or was he a friend of Bill?

16 posted on 08/04/2017 4:50:54 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Clutch Martin
Then I saw the dorsal.

.....then you saw the brown snake.

17 posted on 08/04/2017 4:53:48 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: CGASMIA68

If you read carefully at my post, the brunt of my critical attitude is targeted at the media. Whatever wrong was done to the shark pales in comparison to what is done daily to babies and defended repeatedly by the media.

Sorry you were left with a different impression. I should have been more clear, I guess.


18 posted on 08/04/2017 5:01:27 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: raybbr

If that will reduce the number of flat landers from Florida driving the Appalachian and Allegheny mountains with their foot on the break then I’m good with that. Jk.


19 posted on 08/04/2017 5:03:46 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: momincombatboots

I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.


20 posted on 08/04/2017 5:21:29 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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