Man grabs shark with hands; Blames vodka :drinktoth

SYDNEY, Australia - A man who caught a 4-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach said on Friday he only tried the feat because he was drunk on vodka.

Phillip Kerkhof was fishing off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula 870 miles west of Sydney, when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Kerkhof said.

"He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Kerkhof said.

The shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans, but he was uninjured.

"It's not something I'd recommend to do. When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, 'I'm a bit of an idiot for doing it'," Kerkhof said.

Many species of sharks are common in Australian waters, and there are an average of 15 shark attacks per year in the country — roughly one person each year is killed by a shark.

Last month, an abalone diver had an incredible escape after being almost swallowed head first by a huge shark off the New South Wales state coast

My favorite part: "It's not something I'd recommend to do. When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, 'I'm a bit of an idiot for doing it'," Kerkhof said. . . A BIT OF AN IDIOT!

I've done some stupid shit before while drunk, stoned, or both. But the thought of grabbing a dangerous animal never occured to me.

I woulda been more impressed if it was a great white.

" The bronze whaler is a large and aggressive shark that should be considered very dangerous - it has attacked people, but it has not been confirmed in any fatal attacks on humans"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_whaler

i'm sufficiently impressed.

Way to go. That's the best way to get an adrenaline rush

ok wow, hummm wow

I need to switch drinks if that is what it is going to do to me. Doing stupid shit like that omg.. Maybe I will just stick to the tequila. Yah much better idea.

When I was a kid on holiday in Donegal a shark appeared about 100 yards from us, scared the shit out of me.

I forgot to mention I was swimming at the time haha

Fucking lawyers... oh.

you guys are pansies, ive been very near sharks in the wild. while sober, but not on my own volition. i mean you just get out, wait 10 minutes, go back in lol. been very, very close to dolphins in the wild as well, they are very cool creatures, and are sometimes mistaken for sharks. but you can pretty much instantly tell a shark fin from a dolphin fin.

I thought it was SEALs you guys trained to be.

Way to go. That's the best way to get an adrenaline rush

Or an entry for the Darwin Awards.

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