Aggressive Sharks Pose New Danger for Australian Flood Victims
- Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:31pm by
Meredith Jessup
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A new horror for the unfortunate victims of Australia’s widespread flooding (a submerged area the size of France and Germany combined) is news that several dangerous creatures are floating in the waters around them. Officials are warning residents of Brisbane, the country’s second-largest city, to avoid venturing into the flood waters as aggressive bull sharks have been spotted swimming through the streets.
One man now camped out on his rooftop told BBC News that he watched as one swam past his home Friday. “It was a bull shark and it was spotted in a local suburban street,” Rob Minshull said. “We do have sharks in the Brisbane River; they have obviously come over the flood barriers and come looking for food.”
A local butcher spotted two sharks swimming near his local shop in Goodna and another pair of bull sharks were spotted swimming past a local McDonald’s restaurant.
The sharks apparently ventured several kilometers from the river, the Queensland Times reported.
Bull sharks are the third most likely shark to attack a human being. They are noted for their aggressive behaviour and often swim in shallow waters along coasts and rivers. …
Goodna was awash with water eight metres deep during the past 48 hours. The water receded dramatically overnight.
Police evacuated people from a large area of Goodna as large quantities of flammable gas spewed into the air yesterday.
Police said significant amounts of fuel had leaked into floodwaters from ruptured underground storage tanks at petrol stations near the St Ives shopping centre.
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Comments (65)
AMarineSupporter
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:57pm” two sharks swimming near his local shop in Goodna and another pair of bull sharks were spotted swimming past a local McDonald’s” & “Goodna was awash with water eight metres deep during the past 48 hours. The water receded dramatically overnight.”
“The water receded dramatically overnight” That’s God at work
Report Post »Prayers are being answered right infront of them
snufy
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:48amThis is a major castrophe for our Aussie friends. If anyone would like to help with donations, you can donate directly to the Queensland Government, therefore bypassing charity organizations. Link is below.. This one of the few times I feel compelled to safely donate money.
Report Post »http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
Boojer56
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:19amThe sharks are angry due to all the hate speech.
Report Post »darlenekay
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:07amDarn Bush and Cheney…look at this mess they caused. I’m sitting here waiting for them to get blamed. Seriously, this is an absolute tragedy. Australia has always been a close friend. We do need to help them.
Report Post »charliego
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:22amPRAYERS and thoughts with you, Australia. Of all the countries-nations in the World your country is very high on my list to visit and spend time in. Your diverse and fascinating eco systems, the stark beauty and dangers of the outback, your proud history rising from a penal colony, and your courage as a people is wonderful. Best to you. P.S. Bull sharks in town isn’t so good, but that is the nature of devastating floods. I hope the Great Barrier Reef is Okay. I know the strength of your citizens will rise-like cream to the top!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:57amMy best wishes goes out to the people of Australia. That is one country I would not mind spending our tax dollars helping if they needed it, but somehow I will not be surprised if they don’t. They are a very independent and self reliant people over all which is one of the reasons that I find them so admirable.
Good luck Aussies.
Report Post »Reasonabiliy
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:47amOh and by the way, has anyone one seen that global deity, Al Gore lately? You can never seem to find him when you have a question. Maybe he should be more Omnipresent like Omniobama our other wooden idol.
Report Post »Reasonabiliy
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:38amThey might be concerned at this point with their safety, rumor has it that these preditors are the George Sorros clan on vacation
Report Post »KEA
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:58am“A” Bull shark was spotted! Not two, three or more but A single Bull Shark and that makes this news worth?
I am praying for the victims of this natural event and maybe they will learn from it and be better prepared next time.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:47amGlobal sharking?
Report Post »joshcomm
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:13amI think this is the next plot for the Crocodile Dundee sequal, with the “Jaws” imprint in the background. This could be an interesting movie.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:00amNope mossad agents just ask the saudi’s who found out that so called mossad spy vulture was not a spy and not a vulture after many days of research they released a picture and the bird which turned out to be a bald eagle.
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:28amIt’s Palin/Beck/Limbaughs fault.
Report Post »S_Malc13
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:21amWhen the waters recede, the sharks will need a road map back to the rivers. Expect seafood to litter the streets afterwards. Catch ‘em while they’re fresh and eat!
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:12amWill the local Unions there keep out us contractors that might want to go help rebuild?
Report Post »fyvagirl
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:07amRather scary what happens when mother nature takes control! Pray for all those impacted by these raging waters and sharks!!
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:45amNow I remember..AlGore created the shark…..
Report Post »Protege
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:22amI would agree: only someone as smart as Algore could have made the shark:
It eats and eats and eats and does nothing useful.
If you try to cut it’s intake back, it gets mad and adapts, eating MORE.
No matter what you try to hide from it to save yourself, the shark will find it and eat it.
It terrorizes everything around it, making people afraid of losing things like an arm and a leg.
OH MY GOD!
Report Post »Agore created a living, breathing, Progressive Animal!
Brilliant!
GumbyGunslinger
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 4:55pm@ Protege
Ohh you were talking about the shark and not Al Bore…. sorry for the misunderstanding
Report Post »Andrew from Down Under
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:39amMay I make a correction? Brisbane is not our second largest city- it is the third largest city! I live in the second largest city- Melbourne!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:05amHope the water goes down soon & glad there was not a greater loss of life that in itself is a miracle.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:01pmMy thoughts and prayers are with the great people of Australia.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:33amWell on the shark thing.. I have to say McDonald‘s food isn’t all that great.. don’t they have a KFC or Taco Bell close.. or better yet maybe a nice salad bar just to make sure they get enough roughage for Michelle.. than they can swim down to a fruit stand for desert..DO Sharks eat veggies or just people..?
Report Post »foolsgold
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:59pmGlobal Warming caused this.
Birds falling from the sky around the world, fish dying everywhere. floods in Africa, Australia, in Brazil, coldest winter in India etc etc
The world is one big closed ecosystem — you mess with it in one place, it messes up the weather patterns somewhere else.
Cap Greenhouse Emission NOW!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:09amFool … good name.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:11am“Cap Greenhouse Emission NOW!”
Report Post »I concur. Everyone who reads this should stop exhaling NOW!
bennoba
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:18amReally?
Not one of the events you have listed can be linked to man made CO2. Not one!
Climate scientists told us we Australians were in for extended droughts which is why the government has been building desalination plants.
We have had two previous major floods in the same area as this one, both last century, both have been bigger and most have involved higher rainfall. How does that fit into your AGW theory?
Climate scientists in your part of the world predicted warmer winters. How is all that working out for you? Surely you’re not suggesting that global warming is making it colder?
You are appropriately named.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:30amSince we here are no longer able to do doddley squat or make the same we than must be the reason OTHERS are having floods and we are FREEZING.. So that would mean even when we cut our emissions to 1/4 of what others are using say CHINA it’s STILL all our fault RIGHT?? Don’t have much of a guilt complex do you???
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:43amYikes! I hear an ALGORE something coming out of this some how, some way….
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:50am@ Fool……..Birds……. Fish……….Floods…………OH MY.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:51am@Broker For the the first and probably the only time I agree, stop breathing Broker…less gas is always better.
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:06amAl..is that you Al? Hey, listen, I hear greenhouse gases are causing a new breed of idiot to believe everything they’re told by liberal agendas.
Report Post »Protege
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:17amNope, this was a failure on the part of Obama. He promised during his election to stop global warming and make the seas fall. This has not happened. Where is the hope and change we were promised? I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
Report Post »jackkemo
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:08amYour on the wrong site pal!!! Cap your mouth now!!
Report Post »foolsgold
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:40am@BENNOBA
Again, the world is one big, closed ecosystem — mess with the weather with CO2 in one area, it messes up weather patterns somewhere else.
So Becknation, if not CO2 emissions, whats causing this weather mayhem?
Report Post »Answers please….[hint: "nature" isnt the answer]
Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:54amSo your saying that is all my fault because I ate that extra bowl of chili with the expected result the next day? That’s what caused the flooding in Australia? Sorry.
You really are a fool. You chicken littles find can find anything and say that it is because of global warming, that global warming is our fault, that it is the fault of the more industrialized nations, and to fix it we need a global redistribution of wealth. You may be a fool, but I’m not. If you are truly green, sell your car and buy a bicycle, sell everything you own and send the cash to Africa, and stop wasting fossil fuel supplying energy for electricity including your computer.
Report Post »snufy
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:39am‘Greenhouse gases’ is a phrase in another ploy to fool the sheeple, to further socialist and communist control and take money away from people and line their own pockets.. CO2 is what green plants need to live. They take in CO2 and give off oxygen, The more CO2, the more plants there are to produce oxygen for people and animals to survive. All of the Earth’s heat comes from the sun, which is constantly changing it’s output, Don’t follow the crowd. Think for yourself, without endorsing any political issue. Look for the truth and the truth will find you. If you do not know God, you will not know the truth.
Report Post »annieoakley
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:49pmThis is your OPINION. Now you need to PROVE it. Back it up with EVIDENCE.
Report Post »bennoba
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:38pmFOOLSGOLD
Your claim is unsupported by empirical evidence. There is no proven link between man made CO2 and catastrophic global warming. None!
AGW is an unproven (and some would day failed) hypothesis.
Report Post »GumbyGunslinger
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 4:52pmcoldest winter in India etc etc (from fool’s gold [heavy on the fool])
My mind boggles trying to understand how glowbull worming (a fraud perpetrated on the useful idiots looking for a cause to champion) causes COLDEST WINTER in India??? Did the temperature in New Dehli drop to 50 degrees Fahrenheit? Could that have been the natural tilt of that part of the globe away from the sun (the all powerful heat source in our solar system)? If there is a hail storm, does that mean the sky is falling? When the sun goes down, does that mean it was extinguished by the ocean? When the sun rises in the east after setting in the west, what does that imply?
Please oh Goreacle of all things nature…. answer so I may be enlightened…. I beg you to produce logical proof of your aspersions oh scientific one…. and don’t give me all that crap about the climate changing on a daily basis…. or even hourly in some instances.
Stick your global warming meme up your butt!!
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:51pmThese poor people. The story about the older brother and his mother taken away by the water was heart breaking. The younger boy lives today because of the love of his brother. Now these sharks are in the water? I will continue put Australia in my prayers.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 2:01amGreat post. I was telling my son about that family and we prayed together. Prayers are definitely in order on this one. The teen aged boy is a hero and an example of what we should all endeavor to be.
Report Post »bbdarthchris077
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:45pmI am not at all worried about Australia and their small shark problem, they know how to take care of themselves. Has anybody seen the move Crocodile Dun De
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:44pmLand Shark? (sorry couldn’t resist)
Hopefully the sharks will find their way back to their normal territory. Hopefully no one will be hurt by them.
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:24amI was gonna say “They’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:44pmwow, where’s Dundee. no, really sad.prayers to our ausie friends
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:38pmI KNOW this is Sarah Palin’s fault.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:44pmDon’t build your house in low lying areas. Low lying areas are flood plains.
Not hard to figure out.
TruthTalker
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:46pmI will say prayer for the down under.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:06amCan’t believe the sharks don’t know any better than to not eat people.
Report Post »Or maybe the people should know better than to go into the water with sharks?
Something is just not right here.
CatB
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:09amThey were swimming by McDonalds? … don’t they know thats bad for you? Michelle Obama
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:19amYou know when you stop for drive through to get a Big Mac and a bull shark takes a bite out of your front drivers side tire? I hate when that happens.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:31amAs long as were into some deep thinking here tonight,
Report Post »what do you think a Bull Shark would like more,
A Big Mac or a Fish Sandwich?
Showtime
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:58amThe poor folks had a month’s supply of rain in one day.
But this is bound to be the right extremists’ fault.
GayDem4Beck
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:04pm‘Swimming of the Bulls’ Australia if filled with extreme thrills, now they‘ve one upped Spain’s ‘Running of the Bulls.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:01pmBiblical proportions…
Report Post »lawandorder
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:54amre: WHITEFANG
Normally I would agree with you…but in an area the size of France and Germany combined, where exactly are the non-low laying areas? Just curious….
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:30pmLawandorder,
Report Post »That is a problem that is hard to get around in modern society.
But building in low areas does present the realization that someday, sooner or later, it will flood. Can’t ignore that.