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DEC 03, 2007 11:01 AM
Wow, that's really really cool. Not to take away from the dolphins or anything, but my hat tip on the shark fighting issue still goes to Phillip Kerkhof
A man who caught a four-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach today said he only did it because he was drunk on vodka.
Bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof was fishing for squid with friends off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, on Monday night when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Mr Kerkhof said. "He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Mr Kerkhof said.
As he wrestled the shark onto the jetty, the shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans but all he suffered was a slight scratch.
Mr Kerkhof said he'd had two meals already from the shark and planned to use the rest in a weekend cookout for friends in the town, which lies about 870 miles west of Sydney.
"It's beautiful mate - restaurant quality," he said.
DEC 03, 2007 11:04 AM
Admiral_Pants said:
I saw this article elsewhere with the headline "Dolphins Help Shark Attack Victim".
I had to think about it for a second.
Wow, some editor was asleep at their computer that day. 
DEC 03, 2007 11:07 AM
aleksa said:
Admiral_Pants said:
I saw this article elsewhere with the headline "Dolphins Help Shark Attack Victim".
I had to think about it for a second.
Wow, some editor was asleep at their computer that day.
Killers of the deep.
*nods*
DEC 03, 2007 11:17 AM
Wheezy_E said:
Wow, that's really really cool. Not to take away from the dolphins or anything, but my hat tip on the shark fighting issue still goes to Phillip Kerkhof
A man who caught a four-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach today said he only did it because he was drunk on vodka.
Bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof was fishing for squid with friends off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, on Monday night when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Mr Kerkhof said. "He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Mr Kerkhof said.
As he wrestled the shark onto the jetty, the shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans but all he suffered was a slight scratch.
Mr Kerkhof said he'd had two meals already from the shark and planned to use the rest in a weekend cookout for friends in the town, which lies about 870 miles west of Sydney.
"It's beautiful mate - restaurant quality," he said.
I'll see your Kerkhof and raise you Jessie Arbogast's uncle.
DEC 03, 2007 01:50 PM
Wheezy_E said:
Wow, that's really really cool. Not to take away from the dolphins or anything, but my hat tip on the shark fighting issue still goes to Phillip Kerkhof
A man who caught a four-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach today said he only did it because he was drunk on vodka.
Bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof was fishing for squid with friends off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, on Monday night when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Mr Kerkhof said. "He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Mr Kerkhof said.
As he wrestled the shark onto the jetty, the shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans but all he suffered was a slight scratch.
Mr Kerkhof said he'd had two meals already from the shark and planned to use the rest in a weekend cookout for friends in the town, which lies about 870 miles west of Sydney.
"It's beautiful mate - restaurant quality," he said.
ahh good ol south oz, home. its all a bit crazy there. I like how the article says how far from sydney it is, when infact it is quite close to Adelaide, the MAIN capital city of the state....just no one knows lil ol adelaide
DEC 03, 2007 04:04 PM
supernovice said:
And I thought the Dolphins couldn't beat anything...
ˇBienvenidos a Miami!
Oh yes, because we really needed another reminder.
DEC 03, 2007 05:01 PM
Chainlink said:
I was going to say...It's obviously a thank you for all the fish!
FellOnEarth
Temecula, CA
April 2006
DEC 03, 2007 10:27 AM