People Are Stupid - Shark Dies

It appears that swimmers or at least other people in the water antagonized the young nurse shark. Of course, the shark ends up dead.  The woman who was bitten may have been a bystanders or one of the people teasing the shark, but she end up in the hospital.  The rest of the people involved apparently got away without any consequences. 

A 23-year-old woman who was bitten Sunday by a small nurse shark in Florida waters had to be transported to a nearby hospital with the shark still attached to her arm, according to local news reports.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the 2-foot shark latched onto the woman’s forearm and refused to release her — even after it died.

 “The shark wouldn’t give up,” Boca Raton resident Shlomo Jacob, who witnessed the scene, told the newspaper. “It was barely breathing but it wasn’t letting go of her arm, like it was stuck to her or something.”

The shark’s behavior was expected.  Sadly, so was the human behavior. 

…the Ocean Rescue captain, told the Sun-Sentinel that some swimmers had been antagonizing the small shark, though he did not know whether the woman played a part in it.

An 11-year-old told the paper that people had been “messing with it” — holding the shark up by its tail.