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Shark Takes Joyride Down the Slide of Death

pimg alt="shark_attack_0005_Layer-5_full.jpg" src="http://www.quizlaw.com/blog/images/shark_attack_0005_Layer-5_full.jpg" width="400" height="400" class="mt-image-center" /Absolutely not legal related at all, but come on: A shark finds out what happens when you jump onto the kiddie slide. You idie/i: /p blockquote"Yesterday morning at around 9:30 AM, prior to the resort's waterscape opening to guests, a 12+-year-old female reef shark jumped over an 18 inch wide and 1 foot high sustaining structure into the resort's Leap of Faith water slide. /blockquote blockquoteThe Atlantis Aquarists believe the shark was startled by an unusual circumstance that we have no way of defining completely. In the over ten years guests have experienced the Leap of Faith, the reef shark itself, harmless to humans as it is fed regularly by our staff, had shown no previous incidences of leaping out of the water in the marine habitat .../blockquote blockquote... The habitat itself is part of the resort's open system which filters water from the Atlantic Ocean and is completely separated from the chlorinated water system on the slides. Once the shark fell onto the slide and into the chlorinated water, it was in significant distress. /blockquote blockquoteThe Marine Aquarium Operations team responded immediately and was able to retrieve the animal at the bottom of the slide and return the animal to the main marine habitat in an attempt to resuscitate her. Despite the team's best efforts to recover the animal, it died shortly after the occurrence. /blockquote pI would feel sorry for the poor creature. Except it's a shark. And all sharks, harmless or not, should be thrown into chlorinated water. /p pMore photographs of the gruesome shark suicide over on a href="http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/18/shark-commits-suicide-on-waterslide/"TMZ/a, a website that should otherwise never be visited./p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/QuizLawLegalBlog/~4/488978970" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Quiz Law on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).