China Gets It’s Very First Shark-Themed Restaurant!

Shark Story Concept Restaurant is the first shark-themed restaurant in China.

You enter the restaurant through a 12 ft high shark’s head and that’s just the beginning.

Looking up at the ceiling you can see a group of sharks swimming in the sea. Customers sit on the ‘shark cartilages’ and enjoy the delicious shark dishes on the ‘shark vertebrae’

The signature dish of the Shark Story Concept Restaurant is shark ball. As the ‘sister store’ of Yuan Xiang Kou, a 200-years-old shark ball store, their shark ball is famous for fresh flavor, tender taste and juicy fillings. Uh, yum?

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Shark Dumped on Newspaper Office’s Doorstep

Somebody left a live shark on the doorstep of an Australian newspaper office. Police said the nearly 2 ft Port Jackson shark was spotted early Wednesday by a man who was leaving a McDonald’s restaurant next door to the offices of the Warrnambool Standard.

When police arrived, the animal was still breathing so officers borrowed a bucket of water from McDonald’s, placed the shark inside it and drove to a nearby pier, where they released it back into the ocean.

Police say they have no idea why someone would dump a shark outside the newspaper. But there are a couple of theories.

Thanks Mike!

Not Exactly Buried Treasure But…

Two half-buried sharks were discovered at Navarre Beach, FL on Sunday.

A couple kids saw the nose of the first shark sticking out of the sand and thought at first it was a toy or a boogie board. They used sand dollars to dig the shark out, leading to the discovery a second shark buried nearby.

They have tentatively identified the larger shark as a bull shark.

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Uh, Maybe Those Aren’t Jellyfish…

According to The Australian, more than 130,000 inflatable breasts have been lost at sea en route to Australia.

Men’s magazine Ralph was planning to include the boobs as a free gift with its January issue but the container carrying $200,000 worth of the plastic breasts left Beijing two weeks ago but turned up empty in Sydney this week.

The magazine has put out an alert to shipping authorities to see if they have the container, but if they don’t turn up in the next 48 hours it’ll be too late for the next issue.

Ralph editor Santi Pintado urged anyone who has any information to contact the magazine. So if you think you see a jellyfish, look twice… it may just be one of Ralph’s boobs.

NBA Star Says Shark Attacks Don’t Exist

NBA star and blogger Gilbert Arenas says there are no such things as “shark attacks” in his latest blog entry…

There Are No Such Thing as Shark Attacks
I know this is random, but I just want to clear this up for people out there.

There are these things called shark attacks, but there is no such thing as a shark attack. I have never seen a real shark attack.

I know you’re making a weird face as you’re reading this. OK people, a shark attack is not what we see on TV and what people portray it as.

We’re humans. We live on land.

Sharks live in water.

So if you’re swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that’s called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.

A shark attack is if you’re chilling at home, sitting on your couch, and a shark comes in and bites you; now that’s a shark attack. Now, if you’re chilling in the water, that is called invasion of space. So I have never heard of a shark attack.

When I see on the news where it’s like, “There have been 10 shark attacks,” I’m like, “Hey, for real?! They’re just running around? Sharks are walking now, huh! We live on the land, we don’t live underwater.”

Shark! Everybody INTO the Water!

Beachgoers at a Cornwall beach piled INTO the sea when they heard a Basking shark was swimming in the area.

The sharks are supposedly not a danger to humans since they only eat plankton… but I bet a tailwhip from one of these could do some serious damage.

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Tidbit Was Preggers… and there Were No Males Around

Veterinarians were surprised to find that Tidbit (the female shark that died last week after she was given sedatives when she bit an aquarium worker) was pregnant when they performed a necropsy.

And get this… the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Sciences Center has no male black tipped sharks. Hmmm….

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Sea Tigers?

Cats don’t usually like water, but Odin, a 6 year old white Bengal tiger that lives at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Zoo near San Francisco, happens to enjoy an occasional dip.

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