the adlards

This from my darling Mum (yes, I grew up with very little sympathy):

“Everyone’s going crazy here after a life guard at Muizenberg had his foot chopped off by a great white. They should be grateful that sharky wasn’t hungry but curious.. No one in their right mind goes walking around in the Kruger Park without a serious gun because they expect to be eaten. In false Bay the sharks come to Seal Island to feed but they also swim around about 200m out beyond the surfline. Being intelligent inquisitive animals they will swim up to unknown creatures in the sea and ” mouth ” them to see what they are, if the object of their investigation then starts kicking the hell out of them with their free leg, they understandably become a little startled and inadvertantly close their mouth suddenly resulting in the shearing off of a foot. If they really wanted to eat you well you’d have no chance. It might be argued that after “tasting ” the lifesavers foot he might then have lined himself up for a real attack, but, hey, lets give him the benefit of the doubt and let him go free and stay well away from his territory next time.”

Must try that “inadvertently closed her mouth” thing next time Sophie bites Jo …

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