1999-09-01 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
From the Marin IJ this morning, I propose the first entrant. Note especially the third paragraph:
MARATHON, Fla. -- A 3 foot nurse shark chomped down on a boy's chest and hung on all the way to the emergency room after the teenager tugged on its tail.
Doctors split the shark's spine to unlock its jaw. The boy, Kevin Morrison, 16, of Rockford, Ill., was released from the hospital the same day.
The boy was on a diving trip off the Florida Keys Thursday wehn he saw a shark nearby. He pulled its tail, and the shark whipped around and bit him, the Coast Guard said.