SHark falls from sky onto Golf Course

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**Frazzled**

Man I sure whiffed that shot out of the sandboHOLYCRAP!!!

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Shark-Found-San-Juan-Capistrano-Golf-Course-175479481.html

Live Shark Drops Onto San Juan Capistrano Golf Course
You're having a pleasant afternoon with your buddies, playing the links at San Juan Hills Golf Club.

You arrive at the 12th tee box at the San Juan Capistrano course and there you see it: A shark, very much alive and thrashing around on the grass.

OK, so it was only a 2-foot-long shark, but still.

"Shark falling from the sky, kind of odd," said Melissa McCormack, director of club operations at San Juan Hills.

The fish was actually found about 4 p.m. Monday by a golf course employee, who picked it up, put it into the back of his golf cart and drove it to the clubhouse, she said. A group of golfers had just left the tee before the shark was spotted.

The shark had two puncture wounds, which made McCormack think a predatory bird had scooped the fish up out of the water, dropping the shark down onto the course. She first relayed the story to the Capistrano Dispatch.

"It was just wriggling around. He needed to get to the ocean right away," McCormack said, adding that it appeared to be a leopard shark.

After a quick dip in fresh water – since McCormack and the employee weren't sure if the small shark could survive if placed in a tank of fresh water – the animal was quickly driven out to the nearby ocean.

Still alive, the shark was dropped back into the sea near Dana Point, where it undoubtedly went on to finish its round with an eagle or two. Or maybe just a birdie.

**Huffy**

They've learned to fly.....well gents, humanity's had a good run but its game over at this point

**Yojiro**

Now I can't shake the image of a great white crashing down on top of some lame ass golfer.

**KalashnikovMarine**

This is an odd inverse of a dream I had while working at a country club, I dreamed that some of the golfers would be dropped in a shark tank.

**kronk**

My girlfriend lives 300 yards from the beach and has found 3 fish in her back yard in the past year.

Either seagulls or pelicans or both are trying to share with her!

**d-usa**

Did it have a freakin' laser attached to it's head?

**Leigen_Zero**

Well I was a little disappointed.

I imagined some country-club moron in full golf regalia (wierd shaped trousers, visor and everything), bragging smugly about his expensive 9-iron and then getting splatted with a great white falling from the sky.

Ah well, can't have it your own way all the time, still, kudos to the shark for fighting off a bird of prey mid-flight, surviving the drop, then managing to not die within the unknown length of time it took the people to get it back to salt water...

**AlmightyWalrus**

In Soviet Russia, shark jumps YOU!

**Manchu**

Rather nice that they took it back to the ocean.

**p_gray99**

So how long was it out of the water? Surely it couldn't survive particularly long on land?

**Chowderhead**

p_gray99 wrote:
So how long was it out of the water? Surely it couldn't survive particularly long on land?

It can live on land exactly ten seconds longer than you think it can.

That's my rule of thumb. And I haven't lost one yet, so I'm fine.

**Necros**

I call shenanigans. I mean, if an African or European swallow can't even carry a coconut, I dunno how any bird could carry a 2-foot shark.

**Jihadin**

MAybe the shark invasion forces are doing last minute testing to confirm we still think they can't live out of water.....Frazz Weiner Legion might be out teethed.....

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

p_gray99 wrote:
So how long was it out of the water? Surely it couldn't survive particularly long on land?

iirc sharks can survive up to an hour out of water

**Grey Templar**

No rich golfer splatted by Great White. I am dissappoint

Anyway, rinsing fresh water over their gills will keep them alive. They can't survive in fresh water because of salinity issues, but short term it won't kill them. It be over the course of hours or days that the imbalance would kill them. All the salt in their body would basically leave through osmosis or something like that.

And then some sharks can survive in fresh water, like Bull Sharks.

**Frazzled**

Jihadin wrote:
MAybe the shark invasion forces are doing last minute testing to confirm we still think they can't live out of water.....Frazz Weiner Legion might be out teethed.....

We heard that and are not amused.

**Grey Templar**

Frazzled wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
MAybe the shark invasion forces are doing last minute testing to confirm we still think they can't live out of water.....Frazz Weiner Legion might be out teethed.....

We heard that and are not amused.

Spoiler:

Indeed, today the Honey Badger, tomorrow the Shark.

**Tibbsy**

Necros wrote:
I call shenanigans. I mean, if an African or European swallow can't even carry a coconut, I dunno how any bird could carry a 2-foot shark.

I literally just watched that clip on youtube, had a little giggle, then checked this thread...

That is almost scary...

**Gitzbitah**

Grey Templar wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
MAybe the shark invasion forces are doing last minute testing to confirm we still think they can't live out of water.....Frazz Weiner Legion might be out teethed.....

We heard that and are not amused.

Spoiler:

Indeed, today the Honey Badger, tomorrow the Shark.

Oh, if a honey badger had dropped onto a golf course, it would have filled the holes with fingers and toes, and scattered the shattered remnants of clubs as a warning to others. Those things are too angry to die!

**hotsauceman1**

I was hoping some helicopter was ferrying a hammerhead or something and it broke loose.

**BunkerBob**

Was it to much to hope? Alas, this time it was.

**Jihadin**

I don't think the Tau be please if we drop a Hammerhead on the golf course....

**Avatar 720**

That depends: did whoever dropped it give it a Railgun, Multi-tracker and Disruption Pods? If not then yes, I doubt they'd be pleased.

**Jihadin**

Think they let us take it for a spin?...fully armed and what not to test its capability....I mean...