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We don't have too many dangerous spiders and snakes up here... the brown recluse doesn't get up this far does it? I think you have more to worry about from bees than spiders and snakes... unless you travel out west or down south.
Ticks are scary. I find those damn things in my yard. Those aren't the deer ticks, but it still creeps me out. I left a shirt in my truck last year and threw it on to shoot hoops one day. I hit the showers an hour later and there was a tick digging into my chest. I'm pretty sure it was in the shirt. I barely noticed it and never felt it, accept when I was lathering up.
Then you have mosquitos carrying new stuff all the time... mosquitos and ticks are something we can't avoid as surf fisherman. I know I am terrible at using bug repellent consistently.
Yeah, I know the buzz about how peter benchley is responsible for the demise of the sharks. Ya know, do dumb-ass people go rob a bank everytime they see Heat, do they blow up planes after seeing a movie about terrorists. Benchley takes alot of heat, but its those stupid people that kill the sharks, not him. I saw Jaws and never killed a shark though I've caught several. People write fiction and the public reads it. Then they react how they react. Has anyone read Tom Clancy? If anyone did some of the things he writes about like creating viruses to wipe out mankind... would he be to blame? Its called creativity and Benchley took a frightening, powerful creature and wrote a cool book about it. Then Speilberg made it into a movie. Then a bunch of mental morons took the obvious next step and started slaughtering sharks for sport and profit and fear.
Being a creative, intelligent person myself (In my opinion, though I cannot get verification of this except from my daughter... when I give her ice cream), I cannot blame the author. I have to blame people who carry out the mayhem and who aren't analytical enough to realize that they have no right to wipe out sharks to stroke their own ego or to calm their own fears.
Patrick, I'm not ranting against you... you didn't say you blame the movie... I've had this argument with my cousin who is a shark freak and big environmentalist. This is just a raw nerve with me and it goes beyond sharks or even the environment. It seems like we always want an easy scapegoat. Its not the fishermen's fault, its the book Jaws. Its not the kid's fault when he shoots 12 classmates, its the guy who gave him the gun or his bad family life. What happened to responsibility for our own actions?
Oh well, there was another bull shark attack in Florida in the past few days. An 8 year old kid had his arm severed by the shark right in front of his dad. The dad grabbed the shark and dragged him onto the beach. A nearby cop killed the shark and they were able to get the arm back... the kid wasn't doing too well though. Not sure if the kid is doing better or if they were able to save the arm.
I guess florida is having alot of attacks this year. Mostly bulls. Lot a people going in the water these days. Just when you thought it was safe...
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