British tabloids are reporting the first Blue Shark attack off British waters ever. *sigh* Shark jams only count if they are unprovoked.

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54-year-old Stephen Perkins was shark fishing 20 miles west of Lundy Island off the north Devon coast on Saturday when they hooked a 5ft long 80lb Blue Shark. As Stephen was trying to remove the hook and pose for pictures at the same time, the Shark but down on his arm HARD removing a six-inch chunk and severing two arteries. Perkins will survive but will need many reconstructive surgeries if he ever wants to play the pibcorn again.

"I was really lucky the teeth on the shark's upper jaw got stuck on my wrist bone so it couldn't take more off... it could have been much worse."

[sweet]

In Stephen's defense, he is a catch and release Shark fisherman and was not commercially hunting Sharks. Still, many Sharks become so stressed in the long time it takes to get them into the boat that they die within a few days of being released due to exhaustion. If you really want to brag about your experience with Sharks, get in the water with them.

--Sharky

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