Knock Knock - Land Shark

[wiley]

MIAMI - State wildlife officers today are trying to find out who left the body of a nurse shark in the middle of a downtown Miami street after trying to sell it to several fish markets.

The men apparently carried the five or six-foot-long fish around on the city's Metromover downtown train Tuesday, prompting calls to police.

News footage Tuesday night showed the dead animal in the street with police officers and cruisers nearby. Two stations reported that a pair of men had tried to sell the animal to at least three fish markets for around $10.

``We're going to try and identify the person responsible for this,'' Officer Jorge Pino, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, told the Miami Herald.

``It may not be easy, but we're going to try,'' he said.

Officials later determined the animal was a nurse shark. The case could result in misdemeanor charges of improper killing and disposal of an animal and selling a shark without a license.

Rob Orta, an employee at Casablanca Fish Market, told television station WSVN-Ch. 7 that the men offered his business the shark.

"But we don't buy sharks off the street," Orta said.

Pino said the shark was disposed of back into the water.

The nurse shark, usually found in shallow water and not uncommon in the waters of Biscayne Bay, is not a protected species, Pino said.

One resident of the area where the shark was dumped said he didn't know what was going on at first.

"It was a relief that it was a shark," said Keith Smith. "When I first saw it, I thought it was a body because of all the shootings that have been going on."

VIDEO: http://wn.wsvn.com/global/video/popup/pop_...mp;rnd=28435979

[welder]

The drunk boater went to the wrong fish market...................

[Mike F]

I'm aware of the unemployment situation ,but has it come to this.

[Trollnheel]

$10 huh?

[ScarabChris]

Couple of crack head bums hooked it in the bay from the shore and thought the local fish markets would jump to buy it. They didn'y know you can't sell fish without a licence, they also didn't know that you don't eat Nurse Shark. They killed that poor animal for no reason.

[wiley]

Imagine going to a seafood resturant and you see these guys dragging a dead shark around the door as you're walking in.

Not a good appetizer!

[OReely]

Imagine the knuckleheads humping that carcass all over town on the Metromover (small train for those that don't know). I wouldn't want to be on that car for a few days.

[ScarabChris]

Those sharks can stay alive for hours out of the water. These jerks were dragging a live shark around Miami. The shark was alive in the train. It dies a horrible death.

Athorities say if caught theses guys will spend a couple of years in jail for cruelty to animals.

Its a good chance they will get caught, today a new picture showed up on the news of them actually dragging it out of the water.

[riffraff]

That is crazy....would have been a better story if the shark bit one of the guys on the ass when they were lugging it around.

[wiley]

Here's a link to the video which capsulizes the entire story:

http://wn.wsvn.com/global/video/popup/pop_...mp;rnd=28435979

Worth the watch.