I mean, you go outside and the mosquitoes are waiting to bite you, and even if you don't get this EEE from the bite (the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus that affects human brains) you still have to scratch that thang for days on end.
And then you go in the ocean to cool off and get away from the deadly bugs, and a shark bites you.
No thanks, outside. I'll be in here, reading.
And then you go to read and you read about some jackanapes down in Florida whose idea of a good time is to swim around with a giant fake dorsal fin right off the beach in Pinellas County.
Very funny, right?
It's not Jaws. Florida Fish and Wildlife officials have put the kibosh on the rumors that a huge shark was lingering in the sea around Tampa Bay.
Because nothing happens anymore without still photos or videos being taken, WFLA TV down there was receiving all these images of the Big Fin, but when the officials checked it out, they throw the hoax flag right down.
“That is a huge dorsal fin and in such shallow water, you would expect to be able to see a portion of the shark’s back and/or the second dorsal or tip of the caudal fin,” FWC Marine Fisheries Biologist Brent Winner told the news, but “none of those are visible.”
And Winner noticed something else: “Even more suspect are the ‘bubbles’ that come up a few feet behind the fin. These look like an exhale from a SCUBA diver in shallow water. Not a swirl or anything that was caused by a shark’s movement.”
Whoops.
Of course, you do wonder what sort of mentality it takes to find such a prank humorous. This guy (and you KNOW it's a guy!) probably hangs around the Senior Center looking for people to trip, and hands out those fake winning lottery tickets to his few friends.
So relax, all you Buccaneers and Rays fans...the fake shark is not real.
But remember, the real one might not be fake.
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