Comment by inflatableDodo | Hacker News Reader

Comment by inflatableDodo | Hacker News Reader

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Not entirely true.

>"A fisherman was attacked by a shark after he hauled it into his boat to pose for a commemorative picture.

>Angler Stephen Perkins, 52, got more than he bargained for when he hauled the fish on board his boat 'Serenity' off Lundy Island, Devon.

>As he was preparing to unhook the fish, it sank its teeth into his wrist leaving him needing re-constructive surgery. It has earned him an unlikely place in history as the first documented case of a man being bitten by a Blue Shark off British waters."

And if we include dead sharks -

>"There have, however, been several people injured by sharks on land including a landlady in Kent who was hit by a set of shark jaws which fell off the wall of her pub and a man whose arm was trapped inside the jaws of a dead shark he was transporting on ice after he stopped his van suddenly sending the carcass flying through the air, snapping its jaws shut on his arm."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3350690/Man...

I suppose that this goes to prove the GP's argument?

This is honestly one of the most hilarious counter-examples I've ever read.

>I suppose that this goes to prove the GP's argument?

Nahh, if I was doing that I'd probably have pointed out that per capita, people are twice as likely to be shot to death by a toddler in the US as by a cop in the UK.

I was merely taking the golden opportunity to be very silly about sharks.

Well, it worked, I guess?

Have you just had those waiting around for the perfect moment or did you just go out and find them?

A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. I had a vague memory of some guy getting bitten in a boat, then added google.

The people who have toddlers and don't use high shelves with no crawl-up access, or something to shove toward the shelf to crawl up to it, should be shot and killed by toddlers.

Say hello to Darwin for me.

All very well, however really a lot of the people shot are kids, random visitors, the toddler themselves or other toddlers. Toddlers don't tend to go hunt down the legal owner to enact some sort of darwinian karma, weirdly enough.

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