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.