Probably one of the craziest things I have read in a while . Small shark falls out of sky, lands on 12th tee at California golf course San Juan Hills Golf Club, Melissa McCormack/Associated Press - This photo taken Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 and released by the San Juan Hills Golf Club shows a leopard shark that dropped out of the sky on the 12th tee at the San Juan Hills Golf Club in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. The 2-pound shark was apparently plucked from the ocean by a bird, then dropped on the course, still alive, Melissa McCormack, director of club operations, said SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. — Nobody yelled “Fore!” at a Southern California golf course when a 2-foot-long shark dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee. The 2-pound leopard shark was apparently plucked from the ocean by a bird then dropped on San Juan Hills Golf Club, Melissa McCormack, director of club operations, said Thursday. No one was teeing up when the shark fell Monday afternoon, although some golfers had just left the area, she said. A course marshal, who makes sure players maintain an appropriate pace, saw something moving around on the tee and went to investigate. He found the shark bleeding with puncture wounds, where it seems the bird had held it in its grasp. The marshal put the shark in his golf cart and drove it back to the clubhouse. “He went above and beyond,” McCormack said. The marshal, McCormack and employee Bryan Stizer wanted to help the small shark, so they stuck it in a bucket of water. Then somebody remembered it wasn’t a fresh water animal, so they stirred up some “homemade sea water” using sea salt from the kitchen, she said. “We knew we had to get it to the ocean as fast as possible,” McCormack said. She grabbed a photo of the shark before Stizer headed to the sea. “When Brian put it in the water, it didn’t move,” she said, “but then it flipped and took off.” It’s the first time anyone could remember a shark falling from the sky at the golf course. “We have your typical coyotes, skunks and the occasional mountain lion, but nothing like a shark,” McCormack said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...5c699e-1f09-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html
"Oh ye and He said, "All who do not believe in me shall suffer the wrath of the greatest water predator known to mankind... on land." God then dropped school after school of fish on their Secular heads and they feasted on mercury poisoned shark which would bring many slow and painful deaths. All was right in the world." - Atropiticitus 2012
Gonna be serious for a second and say good for them for trying to save it, much less succeeding. Now that that's out of the way:
Imagine the trauma for that shark. Removed from the only environment its ever known, taken for a trip in the sky, and dropped in the middle of a golf course. Must have been incredibly surreal for the little fella.
I think fish are less dense and are, generally, more jello in substance, allowing easier dispersion of impact force. That, or it wasn't very high up.
Nobody actually saw the bird. Could have been an alien drop after doing some tests on the fish. It wouldn't shock me if some person caught the fish and then put it on the golf course to see what kind of news attention it would gather.
