Shark found in Charlotte!!!

[Shufdog]

http://www.shelbystar.com/news/shark-57317-wash-charlotte.html

WTF!!! :yikes:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Three friends said they found a shark stuck in a car wash drain in north Charlotte after the heavy rains died down Friday.

According to the three friends, they were walking when someone told them there was a shark at the car wash, so they went to check it out. They said they could smell the shark before they saw it.

"(We were) wondering how in the world a shark ended up at a car wash coming out of the sewer. Everything was flooded though, like the whole park was flooded," one person said.

They said the shark was dead when they found it. No one knows exactly where it came from.

Some areas of Charlotte received as much as 6 inches of rain in the course of a few hours Friday

[Jase]

nice hoax.

[Shufdog]

What makes you think it's a hoax?

[Crixtala]

what i got from this article: shelby has to report on something in charlotte just to have a story that doesn't involve meth

[Shufdog]

nice hoax.

Ch. 9 reported it too.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/28798975/detail.html

[Claws]

fug sharks

[Panthers_Lover]

Well, it was shark week.

[Jase]

A pipe from a car wash drain would be too small for a shark to swim through.

Even if it wasn't, that pipe would come from the sanitary sewer line, which means the shark would have had to swim through a wastewater treatment plant, filled with grinders and chemicals.

Before that, the shark would have had to swim through over a hundred miles of freshwater creek. The farthest a shark has been known to go inland in freshwater is 20 miles, I think.

Much more likely that someone caught a shark at the beach and just put it there.

/buzzkill

[Jangler]

Overdosed on shoplifters.

[Carolina Husker]

A pipe from a car wash drain would be too small for a shark to swim through.

Even if it wasn't, that pipe would come from the sanitary sewer line, which means the shark would have had to swim through a wastewater treatment plant, filled with grinders and chemicals.

Before that, the shark would have had to swim through over a hundred miles of freshwater creek. The farthest a shark has been known to go inland in freshwater is 20 miles, I think.

Much more likely that someone caught a shark at the beach and just put it there.

/buzzkill

I don't know. Still not sure about this one.

[Johnny Rockets]

What makes you think it's a hoax?

Because it's a shark in Charlotte.

[Panthro]

Before that, the shark would have had to swim through over a hundred miles of freshwater creek. The farthest a shark has been known to go inland in freshwater is 20 miles, I think.

Much more likely that someone caught a shark at the beach and just put it there.

/buzzkill

Check it....Bull Sharks can swim hundreds if not thousands of miles through freshwater. They just need to piss more to regulate the difference in salinity.

The shark has traveled 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) up the Amazon River to Iquitos in Peru.[10] It also lives in fresh water Lake Nicaragua, and in the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers of West Bengal and Assam in eastern India and adjoining Bangladesh. It can live in water with a high salt content as in St. Lucia Estuary in South Africa.

Unlike most sharks, bull sharks tolerate fresh water and can travel far up rivers. They have even been known to travel as far up as Indiana in the Ohio River and Illinois in the Mississippi River, although there have been few recorded attacks. As a result, they are probably responsible for the majority of near-shore shark attacks, including many attacks attributed to other species.

/buzz

[MunkeyNuts]

Somewhere in charlotte someone is lamenting the loss of their beloved pet shark

[Jase]

Check it....Bull Sharks can swim hundreds if not thousands of miles through freshwater. They just need to piss more to regulate the difference in salinity.

/buzz

That isn't a bull shark.

[/buzz swatted back down]