Giant Killer Shark Brought to Justice Part II

 Giant Killer Shark Brought to Justice

Earlier today the giant killer shark who has been terrorizing Amity has been brought to justice by local fisherman. According to Matt Hooper, a marine biologist from the Woods Hole, Mass., the shark was a nurse shark and was 11 feet-feet long and weighed 875 pounds.  

According to Hooper, “nurse sharks are among the most brutal and dangerous of all sharks and have been responsible for hundreds of swimmers’ deaths along the East Coast of the United States.” This shark has been blamed for two gruesome deaths this week alone, causing the local beaches to be closed. Upon the news of the death of the shark, all the towns’ beaches have been reopened just in time for the July 4, rush.

According to Police Chief Martin Brody, Mike Swenson a resident of Medford Mass. was the one to catch and kill the shark. Swenson will receive his $3,000 bounty reward from Marion Kintner for his bravery and selflessness.

The shark is thought to have taken the lives of Alex B. Kintner as well as Christine E. Watson earlier this week, but islanders and guests are no longer at risk.

There will be shark spotters from the Coast Guard, the Marine Patrol, the Mass. State Police, the U.S. Navy, Homeland Security and other local municipal and police agencies just as a safety precaution.

Even with the assurance that the waters are safe families watched as the waters were empty due to fear. However, once one person entered the water flocks of people rushed to the water for their weekend fun.

Residents and guests fun had come to a screeching halt when what was believed to be a shark was seen swimming amongst the swimmers. In the mass hysteria of everyone trying to exit the water kids were flipped and people were bruised and scraped. Upon further investigation by police and other shark spotters two boys, Wayne Winston and Brad Kaplan were playing a prank by swimming around with a shark fin. So even with all of the assurance it is still quite evident that people are still petrified to go swimming.

If there are any shark sightings call 1-800-sharksee.

Giant Killer Shark Brought to Justice

Earlier today the giant killer shark who has been terrorizing Amity has been brought to justice by local fisherman. According to Matt Hooper, a marine biologist from the Woods Hole, Mass., the shark was a nurse shark and was 11 feet-feet long and weighed 875 pounds.  

According to Hooper, “nurse sharks are among the most brutal and dangerous of all sharks and have been responsible for hundreds of swimmers’ deaths along the East Coast of the United States.” This shark has been blamed for two gruesome deaths this week alone, causing the local beaches to be closed. Upon the news of the death of the shark, all the towns’ beaches have been reopened just in time for the July 4, rush.

According to Police Chief Martin Brody, Mike Swenson a resident of Medford Mass. was the one to catch and kill the shark. Swenson will receive his $3,000 bounty reward from Marion Kintner for his bravery and selflessness.

The shark is thought to have taken the lives of Alex B. Kintner as well as Christine E. Watson earlier this week, but islanders and guests are no longer at risk.

There will be shark spotters from the Coast Guard, the Marine Patrol, the Mass. State Police, the U.S. Navy, Homeland Security and other local municipal and police agencies just as a safety precaution.

If there are any shark sightings call 1-800-sharksee.

Local Beach Temporary Closed for 24 hours.

An emergency meeting was held last night at 6 p.m.  in Town Hall to discuss the plans for the beaches for the week of July 4. The Police Chief Martin Brody admitted to closing the beach during the islands busiest time of year.

Upon the announcement of the closing of the beaches the community turned uproar. At which time Mayor Larry Vaughnn clarified the situation, leaving the beaches closed for 24 hours. Within the uproar residents voices could be heard, “that’s like three weeks,” said one disgruntled resident.

Yesterday police received a report of a girl, Christine W. Watson, gone missing, shortly after her body was found mauled along the beach. Later that same day Alex B. Kintner, a 10 year-old boy died at what appeared to be an unprovoked shark attack, leading people to believe the two incidents were connected.

Prior to the meeting residents crowded around posters in town hall that read, “A $3,000 Bounty to the man or men who catch and kill the shark that killed Alex Kintner.”

After a sudden halt in the conversation, due to nails scraping the chalkboard A local fisherman, Ben Quinn wanted to make himself heard. Quinn said that he would be willing to offer his services to capture the shark by himself, “for 3,000 I’ll find the shark but that’s not enough,” said Quinn, “$10,000 for me by myself for that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.”

According to Mayor Vaughnn, if Ben Quinn can dispose of the shark, Marion Kintner will supply the $3,000 bounty and the city will put together the other $7,000.

Sharks in New England

Sharks in New England
Upon the two deaths of Alex B. Kinter and Christine Watson, residents of New England have been stricken with fear of shark attacks when swimming.
Kintner was attacked by an unprovoked shark while floating on his raft on Amity Island. His body has not been found. While Watson was reported missing and a few hours later was found mauled along Village Beach on Amity Island, which is leaving people in terror.
With these two attacks it leaves swimmers afraid to go near the waters, and leaves swimmers wondering is it safe to go swimming. “Sharks have gotten a bad reputation,” said Daniel Selmezczi, a writer for divetime.com, “in fact it is actually more likely that you will be killed by slipping on a wet floor.” According to divetime between the years 1580 and 2003, a 423 year period, there was only 1,909 shark attacks. Leaving your chances of being attacked 1 in 11.5 million.
Caroline from the New England Aquarium said there are very few shark attacks a year, and even less of them are fatal. When asked about the last shark attacks in N.H. she reported that it’s been about 75 years since the last reported attack. So for all of the people who are worrying about being attacked, they should know there hasn’t been one in so long that the chances are extremely low.
Even after the terrible events that occurred in Amity recently, swimmers and residents of N.H. will be safe and have no need to worry as of right now.

NY Times Dec. 4

The article Police Stop Occupy Construction in Capital was pretty interesting. I always find protests and the reaction by police and locals very interesting. In this police started arresting people and arrested 35 people. People also didn't react how I would if there were cops arresting my fellow protestors. Protestors were jumping off doing backflips onto an air mattress.
I was also shocked about Carbon Emissions Show Biggest Jump Ever Recorded. The fact that emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010 and rose even more. I don't know much about pollution but the fact that there was an increase in a half-billion extra tons of carbon pumped into the air just seems absolutely amazing.

Shark Attack?

Alex B. Kintner, 10-years-old died today at 2 p.m. in what appeared to be a vicious shark attack Village Beach. Kintner’s rubber raft, which he had been floating on floated ashore shortly after with what appeared to be a large bit in it.
Kintner had been floating on his raft off of the crowded beach. The day was beautiful and the water was calm when what seemed to be an unprovoked shark attack took Kintner. Kintner’s body has not been recovered but his damaged raft floated ashore shortly after.
The Police Chief Martin Brody now believes, “it may be possible that the Watson death could also maybe have been linked to possible shark activities in the vicinity of Amity.” Christine W. Watson’s death had occurred last night along South Beach. She was reported missing by Christopher P. Hoggenbottam III, at 6 a.m. and her body was found shortly after.
Marion Kintner, Alex Kintner’s mother, was also at the beach at the time her son disappeared. She has now been hospitalized Amity General Hospital and being treated for shock. Her and Alex Kintner were the only two injured.
Brody and Mayor Robert Farley express their deepest and most sincere condolences to the Kintner family.
A special meeting will be held by the mayor, chief of police and the Amity Board of selection tonight at 6 p.m. in Town Hall. The meeting will include the discussion of Brody’s plan to close the beaches on July 4, as well as Kintner’s family reward for the capture of the perpetators. And finally an offer to Ben Quint, an old fisherman to hunt down the shark thought to be the vile perpetrator of this tragic incident.

Local travesty

Local high school student found mangled on South Beach Monday morning. The cause behind the death is still unknown but Chief of Police Martin Brody says, “we want to assure allresidents and visitors on our fine island that they are in no danger.”

The beaches will remain open for swimming pending the outcome of the investigation of the girl’s death.  According to Mayor Larry Vaughan there are no precautionary measures they can take to prevent things like this from happening because the girl took a risk with going out as far as she did.

Christine W. Watson, a 17 year-old varsity swimmer and lifeguard, from Amity High School, was last seen leaving a beach party with another teen, Christopher P Hoggenbottam III, a sophomore at Trinity College and a former resident of the island. It was reported that they were both drinking heavily as well as possibly smoking marijuana, as reported by witnesses at the party.

Hogganbottam notified the police at 6 a.m. the next morning when Watson had not returned. After a short search police found Watson’s mangled-body washed up on the beach.

Upon discovery police said her body had been mauled from unknown origins. Brody said, her body had been taken to the coroner’s office for autopsy. Upon conclusion of the autopsy the medical examiner Robert Nevan stated, “The body was severely mangled and the wounds were consistent with a motor boating accident. “

No charges have been filed but police are continuing an investigation of the incident.