Posted by Steve Rutledge on July 11, 2001 at 16:00:38:
In Reply to: Re: GREAT uncle -- posted by sbk on July 10, 2001 at 18:14:56:
: : The boy's uncle is certainly MY hero. I cannot imagine wrestling a bullshark with my barehands in cloudy water ... but he hung on until the park ranger could give him an assist. The uncle of the boy is an amazing man.
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: First off the kid shouldn't of been swimmin at night and his uncle is a moron to even let him go swimmin at that time. i know he wrestled the shark but he also let the kid go out swimming. These people are probably rednecks anyway that don't know the dangers of sharks in the gulfcoast.
News accounts said it happened around 8p. They are on CST in Pensacola, I think, so there would have been plenty of daylight left.