Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

I get a little suspicious of the accuracy of a story from a TV station in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose source is a story from a New Zealand newspaper, about something that happened to a Canadian tourist in the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean. Truly a globe spanning story.

EDIT: Going to the New Zealand Herald, their story just seems to be a copy of the story in the Daily Telegraph of London, England, written by one of their U.S. correspondents. That is at least a British territory, so it sort of works. Information seems largely the same as in the Turks and Caicos Weekly, so maybe the story is accurate.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

It has been determined that the tourist had attempted to engage with the animal from the shallows in an attempt to take photographs

The information is pretty scant but it sounds like maybe she was splashing around trying to get its attention.

It's really sad honestly. She's a double amputee now, and later in life so not likely to get a fancy new prosthetic.

Bull sharks are no joke. They're not as huge and scary as great whites but they're aggressive, and can operate in fresh water as well as salt water. Jeremy Wade did an episode on them in river monsters. Artificial canal estates tend to be infested with them.

I think the local authorities have some culpability in this. If you have sharks literally prowling around beaches full of clueless tourists then you have to close the beach. That's what we do at popular beaches in Australia when a shark is spotted.

To be fair, aside from approaching a bull shark, she did everything correct. Low heart rate, calm, etc.. If prosthetics were only 20 years more advanced, she wouldn’t be permanently crippled by this injury.

For the record, the picture is harmful unrelated BS, the shark in question was about 6 feet long and thought to be a bull shark, certainly not a great white.

Did she get the pic?

His tummy was making the rumblies... That only hands could satisfy...

OMG, is the phone ok?

Sorry, but I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who fucks with an animal; wild or otherwise.

And that, my friends, is why you need a selfie stick. <insert 90's commercial end sound>

Other beachgoers saved the woman from an even worse fate, with her husband scaring off the shark after the attack and strangers gathering around her and using their clothes to slow the bleeding.

I dunno, I think I'd rather die than spend the rest of my life with no hands.

It's a wonder humans took over the world and not dolphins or some other reasonably smart animal.

Humans are 20% culture, progress, and innovation, and 80% tasty hands and dead weight.

here's a predator that has existed for many many many millions of years because they're so good at killing. I'm gonna try to take a picture of it! That seems like a great idea! /s

People need to leave wild animals alone. Especially if they have zero knowledge of what kind of animal they are engaging with. Reminds me of that video where this dude picks up a blue ringed octopus. The animal looks cute but is very very dangerous. He was very lucky that he didn’t get stung. The venom would have paralyzed him and stop his ability to breathe. Wouldn’t even be able to close his eyes.

"Sure, let's get to the hospital, but first? Lemme take a stumpy."

It’s a simple fact of human nature that some of use will never learn to leave shit alone.

It's honestly kind of horrific