My new favorite headline

[bayonetbrant]

Shark bites man. Man punches shark in head.

A shark bit Patrick Thornton.

So Thornton punched it in the head.

The 47-year-old Charlotte man's ankle had just been bitten by what he thought was a crab off North Carolina's Outer Banks, he told the Virginian-Pilot. Then, he saw the 5-foot shark nearby.

"I yelled, 'Shark! Shark!'" he recalled.

According to the National Park Service, the attack took place Friday morning, where Thornton had been swimming with others a mile north of the Avon Fishing Pier off the coast of Avon.

After Thornton announced the presence of the shark, people nearby, including his niece and nephew, rushed to the shore.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/29/shark-bites-man-man-punches-shark-in-head/

[bbmike]

Aren't you supposed to punch them in the nose? Or do they not like that? 

[Staggerwing]

I don't particularly like it, I'm sure they don't either. Supposedly there are some sensory organs that are particularly sensitive to a sharp blow, momentarily stunning them.

I'd put more faith in a bang stick and a nearby boat to climb up onto.

[mirth]

Be careful, Star likes the bang stick.

[BanzaiCat]

Paul de Gelder is a dude on Shark Week that was on Opie and Jimmy's show. Fascinating guy. Lost his arm and a leg in a shark attack (he was a Navy diver in the Australian military, on an exercise). One of the guys in the interview asked him if punching a shark in the nose is really something to do if they attack you, and Paul said it was BS, that punching one doesn't do anything. He said his shark attacker was one millimeter from rupturing an artery, and had that happened he would have bled out in the water and died before they could even get to him with a boat.

Wish I had a clip from the show to back that up, but here's something from Australia about him:

[Nefaro]

According to the article, the guy's punching and elbowing of the shark convinced it to briefly stop a few times so there must be some sense to it, if that's all you can do.

[Airborne Rifles]

Maybe this guy should have been taking notes before he tried to take on a alligator...at night:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/index.html

[Martok]

Maybe this guy should have been taking notes before he tried to take on a alligator...at night:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/index.html

Darwinism in one of its purest forms.  <smh>