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    According to reports in todays Newspapers, Officials in some parts of the country want handouts to stop referring to shark attacks.
    Officials believe that this is to scary and printed handouts, should call them 'negative encounters', or 'interactions' instead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vic mcclymont View Post
    according to reports in todays newspapers, officials in some parts of the country want handouts to stop referring to shark attacks.
    Officials believe that this is to scary and printed handouts, should call them 'negative encounters', or 'interactions' instead.
    Vic
    maybe they should give them to the sharks

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    Yes my good mates, tis true I do declare.

    They have always been known as Shark attacks, be they in the sea, the used car yard or real estate agents office.
    But according to those who 'know about this stuff' say such a term in unwarranted as it is not an attack but an encounter.

    Now to those blue a**d Richard Craniums no matter what you wish to call it the fact is if you are in the water they will take you balls and all.

    If you want to stay pretty and nice then stay out of the bloody sea.

    A Shark attack no matter how you dress it up is still an attack, bloody WOKE lot!!!!!!!!!
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    #1.. The only thing I give credence to The newspapers For Vic ,is the Orbituary columns as all they have to do there is to copy out the death certificates and don’t think they would tempt the wrath of the ordinary people if they attempted to alter those in any way. Cheers JS
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    #5. I used to live close to Safety Bay and if I ever thought about it I would of assumed it got its name from being at one time a safe anchorage, there is one place further up the coast called Sharks Bay , and would of assumed some crackpot had mistaken dolphins for sharks. Maybe they the brother of the one in the advert who couldn’t tell the difference between Stork and Butter. JS.
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    Can just see the headlines. man has interaction with a shark, looses both legs and an arm, shark took pity on him leaving the other arm to wave.
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    Or pick his nose Des ? The mind boggles on what one needs 1 hand for. That shark was very kind and generous.JS
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    It has been said if in danger of a shark attack raise one arm in the air to attract attention.
    What bloody attention, tell the shark start here mate while I wait for assistance?

    Then they go looking for the shark, you know the one that got the man in the water, well sir what kind was it.
    A big hungry bugger never got his name.

    What are they going to do if they find it, ask it to cough up the arm so it can be sowed back on.

    Look mate if you do not like bloody sharks stay away from the used car lots, and the ocean.
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    #10: Had a few this way of late.

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    #11. John remember putting it in an earlier post , but doing the HUET course every 2 years which I hated when practising an escape from a downed helicopter if you survived with others would make a circle in the water , in theory to give a bigger target for any predatory hungry shark . However one comic of an instructor always used to add if there were any females in the group and was the wrong time of the month to exclude her from the group.
    Not a very gentlemanly thing to say , butI did notice he only said it when there were no females present , probably a coward at heart . Cheers JS
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