The Ghost, Darkness and the Bull Shark

[burk48237]

It appears that packs of Bull Sharks are now "hunting humans" in packs off the coast of Mexico. Bull Sharks have always been considered not dangerous, and never considered to be man-eaters. It appears that despite a few blaming Global Warming (GW is to blame for every natural event according to some small minds), The real cause is Mexican Mobsters (drug cartels) have been dumping dead bodies in the water and Bull Sharks have discovered humans to be easy food.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...005961,00.html

This is a very similar situation to the "Ghost and the Darkness", Two man-eating lions in Tsavo, Africa in 1898. A railroad was being built, and near it's location was a place that slavers would dump off dead bodies of slaves that didn't survive the journeys. The Lions got accustomed to eating humans and it became their primary food source. The two lions (on display at the Chicago museum of Natural history) are believed to have killed 135 between them. and they were known to drag railroad workers out of their tents into the bush. In both cases it seems we "taught" these animals that humans are food, and the results were fatal. Someone needs to tell the drug cartels to "not feed the Sharks".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_maneaters

[Bryan R. Tyler]

That doesn't seem too likely a hypothesis- a dead human is completely different prey than a live one. The "taste for human blood" thing sounds silly as well- sharks generally aren't that picky

[DigMe]

Bull sharks? Seriously?

I think we all know that there is only one man who can handle this problem.

bc

[tZer]

Originally Posted by burk48237

Someone needs to tell the drug cartels to "not feed the Sharks".

This made me laugh! LOL

[MakiSupaStar]

These sharks aren't hunting humans. It's just part of the hysteria after a few shark attacks. Sharks do not like humans. They might take a bite out of one or two to see if they are seals, or sea lions, but most of the time they reject them. Unfortunately, that tasting is often fatal. I'm not going to go into the hysterical idea of the Mexican Navy hunting these sharks, but I do know for a fact that the practices of the local fisherman are not in the best interests of the surfers and swimmers. I was surfing a spot down near Cabo San Lucas once and suddenly I noticed that little outboard fishing boat dumping buckets of chum about 200 yards outside of me. I got out of the water. Not long after that, there were fins in the line up. So, this is what I think happened. Chumming, attracted sharks which attacked humans in the midst of a frenzy, so to cover for the story and to shift blame, the Mexican Navy proceeds to hunt these crazy bull sharks with a taste for human blood. That way they can blame innocent animals and not hold the local fisherman accountable.

[MJ5150]

Dang, Maki dropping some analytical knowledge on us.

-Mike

[playinpearls]

You conservatives and your Mexican drug lords....when are you gonna give up and realize that GW is real!!??

[jady]

Maki's Masters Degree in action right there

[Joe Gress]

Mmm, to bad all sharks aren't like fatboy sherman, eh?

[Mark Latimour]

Possibly an even greater mystery than the case of the man-eating bull sharks is how one gets from this:

Originally Posted by Article

Jose Leonardo Castillo, chief shark investigator for Mexico’s National Fishing Institute, said yesterday: “One theory we’re investigating is that a group of sharks have developed a taste for humans.”

To this:

Originally Posted by burk48237

The real cause is Mexican Mobsters (drug cartels) have been dumping dead bodies in the water and Bull Sharks have discovered humans to be easy food.

Then there's the mystery of how Global Warming even came into this discussion. I mean the article doesn't even mention Global Warming. And none of the articles I saw when I searched this on Google News mentioned Global Warming:

Originally Posted by Burk

It appears that despite a few blaming Global Warming (GW is to blame for every natural event according to some small minds)

Who exactly is blaming Global Warming for this?????

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...005961,00.html

My guess at this dastardly whodunit is: Professor Burk, in the study, with the blogosphere.

Edit: Actually I found one article (out of the 70 on Google News) that mentioned Global Warming in relation to these. It said "They [locals] also want to know if global warming might have played a part in it." So there you go. The big global warming conspiracy strikes again!

[ubado]

I'm guessing the Mexican Navy doesn't watch "Shark Week" down there.

If so, they'd realize that sharks don't get the "taste for humans" .... they either get us confused with another type of meal (why sufers and especially body boarders get attacked .... many look like Sea Turtles from below), or they are just checking out what we are (just like a dog .... sniff, sniff, chomp .... spit out ).

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by jady

Maki's Masters Degree in action right there

Pfft. I just surprised Mr. blame-all-that-is-wrong-in-the-world-on-the-liberal-media-and-the-global-warming-consipiracy-theorist Burke is so quick to believe this story, of a Navy hunting sharks , but can't believe in something plausible like global warming.

Here's the big picture. Mexico, especially that part of Mexico, is dependent upon the tourism industry, so when you combine sharks, kidnappings, corruption, and warring drug cartels, you have an economic crisis on what amounts to be a third world country. So they'll try to fix the easiest one, those pesky man-hunting sharks. The Mexican Navy hunting man eating sharks is absurd. All this is going to do is lead to a slaughter of all SHARKS, and detract from what the Navy should really be doing which is stop the oceanic transport of drug cartel merchandise. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised, if most of the Navy isn't already on the payroll of the drug cartels.

[baba]

Originally Posted by DigMe

Bull sharks? Seriously?

I think we all know that there is only one man who can handle this problem.

bc

Well, at least I got it.

incredible.

[Joe Gress]

Originally Posted by baba

Well, at least I got it.

incredible.

I got it.

I ignored it.

The Qintar couldn't afford to go to mexico right now.

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by joeinsprings

I got it.

I ignored it.

The Qintar couldn't afford to go to mexico right now.

Say it ain't so... The gas prices are even squashing the Qintar?

[jive1]

Originally Posted by DigMe

Bull sharks? Seriously?

I think we all know that there is only one man who can handle this problem.

bc

No we don't. That man can't even get squeeze a 20 spot out of his old lady, let alone a bull shark.

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by jive1

No we don't. That man can't even get squeeze a 20 spot out of his old lady, let alone a bull shark.

He could get a 20 out of her, if she took his balls out of her purse first.

[the_fonz]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

These sharks aren't hunting humans. It's just part of the hysteria after a few shark attacks. Sharks do not like humans. They might take a bite out of one or two to see if they are seals, or sea lions, but most of the time they reject them. Unfortunately, that tasting is often fatal. I'm not going to go into the hysterical idea of the Mexican Navy hunting these sharks, but I do know for a fact that the practices of the local fisherman are not in the best interests of the surfers and swimmers. I was surfing a spot down near Cabo San Lucas once and suddenly I noticed that little outboard fishing boat dumping buckets of chum about 200 yards outside of me. I got out of the water. Not long after that, there were fins in the line up. So, this is what I think happened. Chumming, attracted sharks which attacked humans in the midst of a frenzy, so to cover for the story and to shift blame, the Mexican Navy proceeds to hunt these crazy bull sharks with a taste for human blood. That way they can blame innocent animals and not hold the local fisherman accountable.

Yeah, but that theory isn't fun

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by the_fonz

Yeah, but that theory isn't fun

Not nearly as fun as imagining first what the Mexican Navy looks like, and then second what it looks like chasing pesky man-eating sharks.

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

I once saw a man eating shark. It was in a seafood restaurant. I was eating haddock myself.