How Did a 6-8 Foot Shark Carcass End up in the New Hampshire Woods?
- Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:51am by
Scott Baker
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MILTON, N.H. — “(I’ve seen) garbage here and there but nothing like this that’s for sure,” said Lloyd Ellis, whose brother discovered a shark in the woods of Milton.
“He happened to smell something that didn’t smell right, like a dead animal or something, and he came across it Thursday night,” said EIlis.
The shark was found discarded here on some private property just off of Rural Tenerriffe Road, not far from busy Route 125 and the Spaulding Turnpike.
“I can only think that either someone didn’t have a license, because you have to have a license to fish the ocean, and was going to bring it home and someone said, ‘Hey dude, you need a license or something like that.’
Panicking, they probably said, ‘Well, I guess we’ve got to get rid of the evidence,’” said Ellis.
(H/T BoingBoing)
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Comments (77)
Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:34amWas headed for Canada. Couldnt take Obama anymore .
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:56amNah, Pelosi went to the ocean beach and the shark died of fright…saw a superiour predator coming for it in the end.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:42pmbad journalism; you edon’t need a license to fish the ocean. Probably discarded thinking they would mount it, then changed mind after getting home. People in that part of the woods consider taxidermy a hobby.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:11amSome lawyer’s pay back for professional courtesy??
Some loan shark finally got caught in a bad deal.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:22amFishing trip. Alcohol was involved. Shark started to smell on the way home so they dumped it. Been there.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:21amTrouble is they live a long time out of water. Been there my self, it’s big and a long time to get in but when the high leaves you realize you have to get rid of it!
Report Post »RoAdFiXeR
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:19amMaybe he just got a look at his 401k…I know how he feels….
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:17pmOr else he hadn’t pulled out of the stock market when Glenn advised everyone to . . .
Report Post »drago
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:32amEven sharks can enter the country illegally……….
Report Post »Jasgent
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:36amWell i guess that shrk need some beneifits now and his family, throw money at it maybe it will com back to life
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:27am.
Report Post »Red Bull it gives you wings…………..
technoid
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:57amTake your boat. Go out past the 20 mile limit into international waters. Catch a fish. Cook it. Eat it. Come back with a full stomach and no evidence. If we all do it they won’t make a dime on any salt water license.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:52amKerry claims the TEA Party did it!
Report Post »SShink
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:30amNope, no, you’re wrong…Follow my superior intellectual logic here;
Report Post »George Bush livs in Kennebunkport Maine and you have to drive through New Hampshire to get to Maine from Boston (where he drinks with his alcoholic GOP cronies).
Proof positive; Bush did it!
BehindBlueEyes
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:45am@sshink
“Follow my superior intellectual logic here” ???
I tried to follow you but got lost somewhere between Boston and Maine.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:42amBehindBlueEyes
Report Post »Get a Garmin
BehindBlueEyes
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:15am@yougottabekidding
Report Post »Does Garmin provide maps of logic?
yougottabekidding
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:53amIt’s an add on
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:44am.
Report Post »Wife said it was a male shark who refused to ask for directions…………
moonlight on the bay
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:20pmTake a lesson guys, sometimes ya gotta swallow your pride, pull over and get directions.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:37ami need more cow bells, baby!!!! the heck with bear attacks, now we must watch out for giant hawks that can catch and carry sharks,
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:02amI blame the Humidity….It is so humid the fish are able to swim in it! I netted up a couple Tuna off my back porch just the other night.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:30amI thought the New Hampshire primary was a ways away!
Report Post »WASTEDROCKRANGER
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:18amlol, new cause for the causeheads… save the sharks!!!
reminds me of an old Drew Carey stand-up routine:
Report Post »“save the dolphins, they’re dying in tuna fishing nets…. wtf about the tuna?”
dcwu
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 5:10amLandshark,
Report Post »olddog
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:10amI was just gonna say that.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:11amheheh… classic ;P
Report Post »Fastsam
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:54amI think that is one of our local attorneys, it looks just like him.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:48amGreat idea for a movie! SWAJ!
Report Post »101
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:35amGlobal warming just ask Gore
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:16pmSee! This is what global warming can do! There WAS a RIVER running through that forest, then poof, it evaporated! You were right, Al! How could we have ever doubted you . . . .
I was wondering how long it’d take before I ran across a “landshark . . .” post. (Candygram . .)
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:01amJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods…
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:15amShark temporarily thought it was a bird (should have seen the flapping fins), but then ran out of breath and tumbled to it’s death. ;)
:)
Report Post »SIXFRIGATES
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:13amHey, he got a little excited about SharkWeek on Discovery… After all, the only @#^@ show they even aired was about breaching sharks (that’s jumping out of the water for Obama voters).
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:31amWho says Great WHITE Sharks can’t jump?
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:23pmThe shark was in the woods looking for Bigfoot.
Report Post »BooButtBrown
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:09amStop killing sharks!!
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:52amI lived near there. Milton is about an hour from the beach. No, you don’t need a license to fish in the ocean. They have fishing cruises out there. They don’t ask for anyone to show a license. You need a license for rivers and lakes, although most kids didn’t bother with it. There’s a lot of rivers out in the woods no one patrols them. Probably because you would have to travel on foot. NH’s woods are very thick. There were so many trees, you could barely see my house from the street when we bought it and the front yard was only about 50 feet – road to house.
Report Post »wheel35
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:36amHi Shiroi
Report Post »I guess it‘s been a while since you’ve been fishing becauase our good ole government couldn’t leave fishing salt water free. That would just be wrong! You do need a license and it is usually figured into your fees on a fishing charter,
As of January 1, 2011, all persons age 16 and older recreationally fishing in coastal and estuarine waters of the state must purchase a N.H. Saltwater Recreational Fishing License. This includes anglers, spearfishers and persons using other gear types who wish to take, possess, or transport marine finfish for personal use and which are not sold.
Most Coastal states are doing this now. Ahhh more rights gone
Psychosis
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:56amsomebody dumped it when they found out dog shark aint good eats
and no, you dont need a license to fish in the ocean
Report Post »stupid_news
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:04amyou dont need a “fishing license” to fish in the ocean” ? huh !… ummm yeah you do. look it up..
Report Post »David Banner
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:05amThat’s crazy!!! If God wanted sharks in the woods, he would have given them legs. Dang, though, that’d be good hunting.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:06amI thought it was a lawyer
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:07amQ: How Did a 6-8 Foot Shark Carcass End up in the New Hampshire Woods?
A: GREENPEACE
Thats my final answer.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:21amIt‘s Bush’s fault…
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:49amGet your NH ocean fishing license right here:
http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Licensing/fees_and_requirements.htm
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:46amoops, i forgot
some states suck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no license for salt water fishing here !!!!!!!!!!! ( pa) lol
Report Post »LFOD_Yankee
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:51amIs Jimmy Buffett in town?
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:32amLand Shark
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:31amLand Shark!
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:29amKnock, knock!
Report Post »Who’s there?
Land Shark!
Julie2010
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:59amhttp://www.spike.com/video-clips/gytf2i/land-shark
Report Post »carnifex
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:19amKnock, knock.
Report Post »“Who’s there?”
“candygram”
“Who?”
“candygram….uhhhh…..delivery”
Old SNL skit featuring Bruce the great white from “Jaws”