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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsGOOD NEWS!!! Shark Week isn't over!!! Here's tonight's line-up:
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GOOD NEWS!!! Shark Week isn't over!!! Here's tonight's line-up: (Original Post)
MiddleFingerMom
Aug 2013
OP
One wonders why they don't attack humans more often, since we're slow in the water.
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2013
#1
But, then, wouldn't they approach boaters more frequently, expecting to be fed?
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2013
#9
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)1. One wonders why they don't attack humans more often, since we're slow in the water.
Or, at least, slower than seals.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)2. Size? Or maybe they're smart enough not to. nt
jmowreader
(50,546 posts)3. Flavor. They don't like what we taste like.
There's also the issue that the person might be a Republican, who sharks refuse to eat as a matter of professional courtesy.
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)8. So true.
We could have a shark/lawyer line up and I would have trouble telling them apart.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)4. I took this picture this weekend
our boat captain said the sharks don't bite people in the Bahamas because they keep their sharks fed...
Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)9. But, then, wouldn't they approach boaters more frequently, expecting to be fed?
Like bears and alligators do when they get fed by humans?
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)10. Probably
so you better show up with some hunks of fish carcass! I imagine that's why they pick that spot to take the glass bottom boat tours..
(He also said if you were gonna get seasick, "FEED THE FISH! don't mess up my toilets!"...luckily nobody got seasick)
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Hey! That's not nice!
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)6. lol!
Serve the person up with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)7. Very finny