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Body parts found in shark

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Body parts found in shark


BANGKOK (AP) -- Thai commercial fishermen unloading a catch received a shock when they noticed a human leg sticking out of the mouth of a shark, police said Monday.

Fishermen made the grisly discovery when the trawler Veeraphap Poonphol 14 returned Sunday to its home port of Samut Prakan, 30 kilometres south of Bangkok. They also found a man's right forearm in the shark's stomach.

Lt.-Col. Somchai Sopacharoen of Samut Prakan police station told The Associated Press that the 3.7-metre-long white shark was captured in Indonesian waters about a week ago by a bigger vessel, the Sap Charoen Sap 4, which offloaded its catch to the Veeraphap Poonphol.

The right forearm and left leg probably were from an Asian man, said Dr. Pattana Kitraj of the Police Forensic Institute.

The limbs, which bore several bite marks, had just started to decay, indicating they had been in the shark's stomach between one to two weeks, he said.

Pattana said he believed the shark ate the parts a day or two before being caught, after which the shark's carcass was kept in the ship's deep freeze.

The DNA of the limbs was to be tested in case any claims are made about the victim's identity, Pattana said. http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/shark_june17-ap.html



"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Comments

  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sharks gotta eat too!

    Chris8161
    Admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof!
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    I wander if the fishermen drew straws to see who was going to be the bait?

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
  • Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    For those of you living in FL BE VERY CAREFULL WHERE YOU SWIM.They are predicting a record amount of shark following the warm current right to FL.'s shores.I think last year set the current record of shark attacks on humans in Florida.

    "If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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