Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets

As if the flood waters weren't bad enough for the people of Queensland, it now appears that there are sharks swimming in the streets. Two bull sharks were spotted swimming past a McDonald’s in the city of Goodna, Butcher Steve Bateman saw another making its way past his shop on Williams street. Ipswich councillor for the Goodna region Paul Tully said: "It would have swam several kilometres in from the river, across Evan Marginson Park and the motorway. It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the main street."

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[toygeek]

RIP Steve Irwin. These are the kinds of things he *lived* for.

That being said...

"Land shark!"

Not surprising

[Cimexus]

Hardly surprising is it? Rivers breaking their banks mean things that would normally be in the river are now in places other than the river. Considering the large amount of ~actual~ news coming out of the flooding situation, not sure why this random factoid above all others has made Slashdot. (Yes I know it's Idle...but still...)

Oh and /insert mandatory fricken laser beams joke here.

Why?

[brad-d]

So one person reports (unconfirmed) two bull sharks in flood waters. Local media the next day generally has the opinion the story is a load of bollocks and now almost a week later it appears on Slashdot (a news for nerds site) as fact.... OK.

If you want some (slightly) more nerdy stuff to report about the floods go research the Wivenhoe dam.

I've really got to stop reading idle stories.

PHFT! Nothing new!

[definate]

Seriously, I've lived in Australia all my life, and I can tell ya', there's always been sharks swimming in the streets!

Blimey, if I had a 2 dollar coin for every time I've seen a shark swimming in the streets, I'd be a billionaire! (1 billion AUD ~ 23,540 USD)

We got it all down here, land sharks, flying snakes, drop bears, bunyips, flys that bite, the worlds most poisonous spiders. Basically, if it's an animal that can kill you, we've got it. Crikey, we even import dangerous animals from other countries, just to make sure we've got 'em!

Land sharks? Phft! Nobodies ever died from a land shark!

Now drop bears, that's a lethal animal. I lost my father to a drop bear, came out of no where. R.I.P. Dad.

Re:PHFT! Nothing new!

[definate]

Sorry, obviously there's a little confusion here. Lemme clarify that for ya.

A billion in the Australian metric system, is 1/10th of a Waggawagga, or about 3/5ths of a Malala. It doesn't quite work the same as you guys over there.

If you convert it correctly, then it comes out to a little bit above what I quoted ya. However, when you take into account the money you have to pay the Aborginal gangs on your way to the Reserve Money Trader of Australia (it's in Canberra), you'd come out with about what I quoted. If ya don't pay them, they'll bash ya, and make ya walkabout it off.

Fuckin' arseholes if you tell me.

Re:Land sharks!

[thephydes]

Yes they are usually called lawyers

Re:Crocodile vs Shark!

[Dunbal]

The spiders would beat them both.

Knock, knock...

[Beardo the Bearded]

"Candygram!"