And that, my friends, is why you need a selfie stick.
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๐ต Get your selfie stick
Grab a stick of juicy fruit
The taste is gonna move ya ๐ต
Sorry, but I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who fucks with an animal; wild or otherwise.
are you vegan?
OMG, is the phone ok?
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.
I'm pretty certain you'd get accustomed pretty quickly
Humans are amazingly adaptive
I don't know about that. I have a chronic medical condition which affects my muscles; I've adapted, but it took a long time and I still hate it.
"Sure, let's get to the hospital, but first? Lemme take a stumpy."
It's honestly kind of horrific
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
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.