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"OCRACOKE, N.C. — A 6-year-old girl is recovering after a shark attack on the North Carolina coast. Cyndy Holda of the National Park Service said the child was bitten on the lower portion of her right leg and a foot around 5 p.m. Tuesday on Ocracoke Island. The girl had been playing near the beach with a boogie board in about 18 inches of water when she was bitten. Family members said the girl's mother was 10 feet away and saw the attack. The child, whose name was not released, was flown to Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville. The girl's family released a statement Tuesday afternoon saying the child was in good condition. "She is in good spirits, declaring this morning that, 'I hate sharks. I like dolphins way better,'" the family said. Ranger Kenny Ballance, of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, said late afternoon and early morning are the most common times of day to see sharks so close to shore. A park service spokesman says the last shark bite on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore was off Avon in 2001 when a man died from his injuries."

lol, at least the girl is taking it in stride

Also the Golo comments, as usual, are full of

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9885713/

7/20/2011 9:54:22 PM

what kinda shark? sand shark?

7/20/2011 9:55:11 PM

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"wow the tourist will not be coming to North Carolina to go to the beach as much taxes as we pay is not something that can be done to keep the sharks away from the shore at any time of the day?"

7/20/2011 9:57:36 PM

http://www.restorationsystems.com/shark-week/

7/20/2011 9:57:38 PM

http://www.wral.com/golo/profile/4711852/

7/20/2011 10:00:11 PM

ahahahaha of course his ass would be on fucking Golo.

7/20/2011 10:00:46 PM

Would a sand shark attack like this? Haven't we had bull shark attacks in NC?

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM. Reason : wait, it's on the news right now.. possible bull shark]

7/20/2011 10:00:52 PM

didn't scott taylor take those pics years ago?

7/20/2011 10:01:57 PM

once I've acquired a shark's dorsal fin, my collection of exceptional animal features will be complete (the animals needn't be exceptional, only the parts)

7/20/2011 10:02:08 PM

All roads lead to Rome **** ****

7/20/2011 10:02:14 PM

ps.... best response to a shark attack ever haha

7/20/2011 10:02:21 PM

without reading this thread at all I'm gonna guess the victim was from indiana

7/20/2011 10:05:40 PM

sounds like a great white attack to me.

7/20/2011 10:06:14 PM

yeah, those are his

I had a 3 ft sand shark graze my leg in knee deep water on Shack over the 4th

7/20/2011 10:25:19 PM

This shit is so fucking stupid! I was flounder gigging on South Point saturday night and saw several 3' sharks swimming around. It's Ocracoke Island for gods sake, the farthest out in the fucking ocean you can be, of course there are sharks there. It doesn't take much of a shark bite to really hurt a little 6year old girls leg. Sorry it happened to her, but it's the fucking ocean.....no one would ever go run with a pride of lions and then act all shocked when someone got bit

-If there's any thing good to come out of this, maybe it will scare all the ding batters away from ocracoke

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 11:00 PM. Reason : .]

7/20/2011 10:45:47 PM

Also, to all the retards claiming it's a bull shark.... have you ever seen one? do you know how big a fucking bull shark is? way too damn big to be in 18" of fucking water. The most common in that shallow of water is probably a sandbar, lemon shark or black tip shark. Hell often times with bites this small it's actually a barracuda or a large bluefish, but everyone just assumes it is a shark.

7/20/2011 10:49:30 PM

So are you claiming bull sharks start out bigger than 18 inches?

[Edited on July 20, 2011 at 10:53 PM. Reason : FTR, I don't know much about bull sharks ]

7/20/2011 10:51:16 PM

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""Sharks gotta eat too." mrlee34"

lol

7/20/2011 10:51:29 PM

^^Bull sharks are like 30" when they're born which is still small enough to swim in 18" of water, however pups aren't usually born until early fall meaning most bulls hanging around now are large sharks, mature or nearly mature. Also, this are of south point is on the open ocean side, pups will normally stay in the sound side for protection.

Not saying that Im a shark expert or anything it just pisses me off when people in general who don't know shit about the ocean or living on the coast jump on the bull shark band wagon and then start calling for nets to be set around the beaches and sharks to be hunted down.

7/20/2011 10:58:37 PM

Hmm, the more you know


And honestly, I don't think anyone itt was going to go on a bull shark rampage... I only wondered then heard it on the news segment (but they didn't confirm anything, so no worries bud)

7/20/2011 11:04:15 PM

^Yea, I was speaking to the general public that will probably never read this thread

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""May God watch over her." Yeah - he did a great job watching out for her earlier."

lolz

7/20/2011 11:07:03 PM

wow, take a deep breath and count to ten dude.

7/20/2011 11:09:49 PM