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[-] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

“While Kentucky doesn't have an ocean, it does have aquariums. In 2006, at least 12 people at Kentucky's Newport Aquarium were bitten by sharks while at an exhibit that allows visitors to touch the animals”

Keep in mind that this aquarium is just across the river from the zoo where parents let their kids fall into the gorilla exhibits.

[-] ButtCheekOnAStick@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

HARAMBE!!!!!

[-] foo@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Is this an example of American exceptionalism?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And yet it's an awesome aquarium and I highly recommend it. Including the 'touch a shark' part.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It was surprising how sandpaper-ish they feel.

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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

This is shockingly relevant

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

sharkingly*

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Definitely.

I also want to get the last 3 frames printed on a t-shirt. I have a young daughter, and it amuses me even more since that happened.

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I can suspend my disbelief to a point but I have just one question.

Where did the helium come from?

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Electrolysis and then nuclear fusion.

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[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

They swim up the Mississipi

[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

People don't realize that Mississippi is an acronym and all of the s's are for 'shark.'

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago

Most
Inland
Sharks go
Sharking
Incessantly.
Sharks
Shark
In
Parts of
Places
Inconceivable

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Really rolls off the tongue!

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

bull sharks are the only ones that go that far north right? they can maintain the salinity around them or some cool shit like that

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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

It's hilariously stupid. In 2005 one dude was cleaning an aquarium's shark tank and cut his arm on a passing shark.

https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/15/new-mexicos-shark-attack/

Still counts.

[-] Caspase8@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How does one cut one's arm on a passing shark? Sharks are smooth as can be.

Edit: Never mind just read the article and he cut his arm on a tooth while the shark swam past open-mouthed.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I know you already found the answer, but I want to add that shark skin is only smooth in one direction, if at all. The scales are made of V-shaped grooves, like their teeth. Their skin can definitely break yours if rubbed in the wrong direction at a fast enough speed.

I can personally vouch for this. I used to volunteer at aquariums. The sharks and manta rays were my favorite exhibits to work in. Penguins were dope too, but they smell.

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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah (had a shark attack)

oh no i just released Kentucky too THE SHARKNADOES ARE COMING

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Non-midwesterners: surprised

Midwesterners who've had a fear of bull sharks since their friend told them about them when they were 5: see I knew it could happen

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[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Bull sharks yo

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Could it be loan sharks?

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

The chances of a shark attacking you on dry land are low but never zero!

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

That's just basic quantum physics.

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[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

Ah, the elusive lank-shark!

[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Just realized New York has a lot of shark attacks unless you're taking about loan sharks where the fuck do you get attacked by a shark in the toxic wasteland that is the entire state every water source is a pond full of garbage and other stuff you really don't want to touch

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

At the New York Aquarium

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago
[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I remember reading the NM one happened in a aquarium, but it is still counted. Bull sharks do travel up the Mississippi River and tributaries and have been reported in IL.

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Okay, but New Mexico??? We barely have lakes here!

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You rock! I'm spreading that information like gospel to everyone I talk to this week!

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sharknado motherfucker

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

flying in the air sharks

now that's some kind of horror

[-] KeefChief13@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Bull shark attack in the Ozarks no? At least that is what all the locals claim haha.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sharks Georg, who lives in Missouri with his shark collection, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Could it be a zoo? No, that would be too easy

Flying street sharks are more likely

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[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

🎤🎤 Scary flying shark, scary flying shark, Careful you, he's out hunting in the dark 🎤🎤

[-] Rayspekt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

THERE'S A SHARK IN THE BATHTUB

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