Great White – new meaning
Allegedly sharks around the Florida coastline have been acting funny, meaning hyper or disoriented and the locals have come up with a reason. They suggest the sharks in particular, have been munching on floating, plastic wrapped packages of cocaine that have been abandoned by smugglers. The packages show up pretty regularly, about twice a week, washing ashore and (we hope) mostly turned over to police for disposal. The packages get thrown overboard to avoid arrest from the Coast Guard or by unseaworthy sailors trying to get to a midnight rendezvous.
Shark expert Tom “The Blowfish” Hird says for TV, “I firmly believe, and it’s not just a chance of probability, that a shark will come across a floating bale [of cocaine] and take a bite.” “What’s interesting is that the sharks we saw … weren’t right, they weren’t just so, they seemed a little bit off — now that was very interesting.” Tom observed sharks exhibiting peculiar behaviors. A hammerhead, a species that would usually swim away from humans, came directly towards the divers, moving erratically. They also observed a sandbar shark swimming in circles as it apparently focused on an imaginary object. The effect, the researchers said, was akin to catnip on felines. “It’s the next best thing [and] set their brains aflame. It was crazy,” Hird says on the show.
Dr. Tracy Fanara dives into the waters off the Florida coast, attracting tiger sharks, hammerheads and lemon sharks — some of which exhibit unusually aggressive behavior. While sharks have not (yet) been tested for cocaine consumption, salmon have — and they get extremely hyper when exposed to cocaine. Meanwhile, Hird said that studies in the UK undertaken at 15 sampling sites along London’s River Thames showed some startling results vis-a-vis fish and drugs. “At each one of those 15 sites they found shrimp, and each shrimp contained cocaine,” he said. “I was not aware of local stories in the Florida Keys about sharks getting on cocaine and going on a three-day bender, but the minute the ‘Cocaine Sharks’ production company brought this idea to me — and asked me if it was legit — I said, ‘Yeah, it totally is.” “It’s a catchy headline to shed light on a real problem, that everything we use, everything we manufacture, everything we put into our bodies, ends up in our wastewater streams and natural water bodies, and these aquatic life we depend on to survive are then exposed to that,” said Dr Tracy Fanara. In the coming months, Fanara plans to partner with other Florida marine scientists to take blood samples from some of the sharks to evaluate their cocaine levels.
Biting Humor
I told a friend I had been attacked by a shark. He asked what I did. I said,
“Nothing, the shark started it.”
I don’t know how people can get eaten by sharks. Can’t they hear that music?
Putin, Biden, Trump and a little girl are on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean, and the boat is completely surrounded by man eating sharks. There are only three life vests on board, meaning one of them will have to stay behind.
“I can’t die yet! I have my next election to win!” And Biden takes a life vest and jumps.
“I can’t die yet! I have a war to win!” And Putin takes a life vest and jumps.
Meanwhile, Trump and the little girl are looking at both of them in disbelief, and the girl says, “That’s strange. No one ever said the boat was sinking.”
If you watch the “Jaws” movie backwards it’s the heartwarming story of a shark that helps disabled people put their lives back together.
July 27th Birthdays
1991 – Indiana Evans, 1985 – Taylor Shilling, 1991 – Kriti Sanon, 2000 – Kali Rodriguez
1976 – Alex Rodreguiz, 1994 – Jordan Spieth, 1964 – Donnie Yen, 1980 – Dolph Ziggler