Oh, you can say it isn’t Jaws. You can point out that the poor animal was probably sickly, possibly dying. But it doesn’t diminish the fact that 62-year-old Welsh grandfather Paul Marshallsea, along with a couple of other old dudes, walked into the ocean off Queensland and harassed a shark until it swam off, apparently to lurk in a nearby river, hoping for another shot at an inattentive toddler.
The video doesn’t show you much, but with a little imagination you can see where the six-foot (let’s say) shark swings around and tries to take a chunk out of its protector/harasser. In the BBC account, Marshallsea says the dusky whaler shark missed him “by a fraction.” Anyway, this stuff–by which we mean old people wrestling man-eating beasts–happens all the time in Australia but there’s usually not a news crew nearby.
