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Great White Shark Attack Fought Off by Woman

rawstory.com — A woman fought off a 2.5-metre great white shark that knocked her off her surf ski. The attack was the second in Australia in two days.

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  • Frei, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3552 years old, surfing, and kicking the ***** out of great whites. She's a bit cooler than my mom.
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/18/2007, -1/+28Not too often do we get a chance to read about a women beating off a shark.
  • andrewcsayer, on 10/17/2007, -0/+16So where the bloody hell are you?
  • Haecceity, on 10/16/2007, -0/+14"A woman fought off a 2.5-metre great white shark that knocked her off her surf ski. The attack was the second in Australia in two days."

    You mean she attacked more than one shark?
  • zekt, on 10/18/2007, -2/+15She must have taken out of compact mirror and blinded it with its own lazer.
  • enginbeering, on 10/16/2007, -0/+12I think "fought off" is the wrong phrase to use here. "Survived" probably works better.

    Great whites aren't intimidated by a puny little human thrashing around in the water. Once he got a taste of her bony, fleshless arm (compared to seals, their natural prey), he realized that she wasn't what he thought she was, and moved on.
  • Glugory, on 10/16/2007, -1/+10"n January an abalone diver in New South Wales survived an attack
    by a 3-metre great white by poking it in the eye. The 41-year-old was
    almost swallowed but managed to get a hand free as the shark clamped
    its jaws round his head and shoulders."
    Holy *****! That is ***** up. I'd never go near water again if something like that happened to me. *****...
  • 1laradream, on 10/16/2007, -3/+11What's causing this increase of attacks? Global warming? Tourist diving in cages with blood and meat in the water?
  • rnwen2750, on 10/16/2007, -0/+7What a woman!
  • inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+7Which is surprising, given that this IS the internet
  • ZiggityZhang, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6Well duh, it's due to the decreasing number of pirates in the world.
  • scallon, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6Not mine. My mom is the best!
  • inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6Probably they forgot about their period.
  • frieddonuts, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6I agree.
  • Lochie, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5Dolphins on the other hand...
  • Akaricloud, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5I am from the same town as this lady. Trust me, there has not been an increase in shark attacks, there has only been an increase in people who are reporting it to the media to get their 5 minutes of fame.

    ivanvanderbyl where in Byron are you from mate?
  • inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4Maybe it was Shark Week.
  • punwin, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5you've never heard of a surf ski?
  • blogsper, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4Why do sharks attack more women ?
  • Dokument, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4She should marry that granpa linebacker
  • postitnote, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4She certainly has a large set of Thatchers.
  • curme, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4Overfishing is causing the sharks to seek food closer to shore.
  • WaterDragon, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3There is a clever quote somewhere....something about being sick of these motherf**king sharks at this motherf**king beach....
    ( reference to the 'Snakes on a Plane" movie) ...but I don't know exactly how the quote would go.
    Anybody?
  • Murdats, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3pfft its australia, we go to the beach to wrestle with sharks for fun, see what you do is you go kill yourself a wild boar (with your bare hands of course), drag its carcass out to see with you, wait for a shark, punch it on the nose and wrestle with it, then surf it back into shore.
    good clean fun for the whole family.
  • MicrosoftBob, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I saw the abalone diver on Larry King, along with a panel of shark experts. An absolutely amazing story of quick thinking and survival.
  • MiDri, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2I figured it would be something like:
    I'm tired of these mother ***** sharks in my mother ***** shores.
  • richgustavson, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2"What happened? Why did the shark attack you? Were you taunting it?"

    "Yeah. I go into the sea sometimes, just to ***** around with the sharks. I've got this thing called a shark-rocket, and I shoot it at them....and it really annoys them."
  • Dokument, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Hey, dont poke fun at peoples fetish's
  • MicrosoftBob, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2It's basically a kayak.
  • AussieScribe, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Aussie women. Built tough.
  • votedude, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3What a horrible looking page/site !
    Video and pics of this shark attack here: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,2204 ...
  • mortey, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I really thought there would be a video of the attack...
  • Akaricloud, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I am from the same town in Australia as this women is. Trust me, it happened. She won't shut the hell up about it though
  • GlitchEnzo, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Thank you! That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. I can't believe the first mention of it was so far down in the comments.
  • EmileVictor, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1If you're not going to the beach give Nimbin a visit, it's smoking. :P

    (this is an in-joke by the way, so don't digg me down!)
  • expatcatalyst, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Gore being on tv too much.......?
  • FearAndLoathing, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Bravo! However..

    "We're humans. We live on land.

    Sharks live in water.

    So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.

    A shark attack is if you're chilling at home, sitting on your couch, and a shark comes in and bites you; now that's a shark attack. Now, if you're chilling in the water, that is called invasion of space. So I have never heard of a shark attack." - Ian Edwards/Gilbert Arenas
  • searob1, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1This shark isn't so "great" after all.
  • inactive, on 10/17/2007, -1/+2Australia's a dangerous country.
  • elmphlemp, on 10/18/2007, -1/+2an australian newspaper had the headline for this story as 'woman beats off shark'. im not really that impressed i once saw a woman getting totally nailed by a clydesdale
  • MicrosoftBob, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/isaf/mens.htm
  • inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1autralians are badass
  • inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1yeah its all over the news its true
  • MicrosoftBob, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Basically, more people mean more attacks. Check out the International Shark Attack File for more detailed information: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/ISAF/ISAF.htm
  • Hayaemsay, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Contacting aquaman.
  • Puppetfunk, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Land-lubers? did anyone else take that dirty?
  • c0ldfusi0n, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Me too.
  • MiDri, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Exactly! Pirates take the land-lubers and bring them to the sharks. With fewer pirates the sharks are having to come find their own land-lubers!
  • wassim2k, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I'm not sure how they got "fought off" out of "got back on her board and paddled to shore"
  • floridiot2, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1She's gonna have an exclamation now.
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