Two men spotted a wildlife watcher's dream on the coast of Newfoundland last weekend: a beached, eight-foot-long Greenland shark—choking on a piece of moose hide. The shark itself is a rare sight in the area. The chunk of moose stuck in its mouth "had the fur and all the liner on it—it was about two feet long, maybe," Derrick Chaulk tells the CBC. When Jeremy Ball came to investigate, the two men gave "a couple yanks and it just came right out," Chaulk says. The men then roped the shark, gave it a push, "and between the two of us, we got him out into deeper water," Chaulk says. The shark eventually swam away.
Before you imagine an epic shark-moose battle, Greenland sharks are known to scavenge on animals that wander into shallow water, including polar bears and reindeer, and even at times to nearly suffocate while eating a carcass—like, say, a moose carcass. Chaulk says locals throw scraps of butchered animals, including moose, into the harbor. Still, "it was a good feeling to see that shark swim out, knowing that you saved his life," he says, though an expert says the shark may not have been in real danger. As for the men, they maybe should have left the moose in the shark's mouth, the expert adds. "When you're man-handling a shark like this and trying to get it back in the water, the fact that its mouth was otherwise pre-occupied by chewing on the meat, you reduce the risk yourself of getting bit accidentally."
Monty Python Sells Out Rather Quickly
Monty Python's reunion gig sold out in less than a minute—and so did each of four added performances, according to Eric Idle, who's directing the shows at London's O2 Arena. "This pretty much took us by surprise," Idle tweeted. Performances will run from July 1 through July 5, the Los Angeles Times reports. Will American fans get a show of their own? There could "possibly" be an encore in New York, John Cleese said, and Idle has also noted that a DVD is in the cards. The show will combine new and old Python routines.
Henry Earl is spending Thanksgiving in jail—which wouldn't be all that newsworthy, were it not for the fact that Earl has racked up more than 1,500 arrests over the past 43 years, and has spent three of the past five Thanksgivings in the slammer. The 64-year-old's first arrest, in 1970, was for carrying a concealed weapon, but most of the rest have involved alcohol, the Smoking Gunreports. This time around, the Kentucky man was nabbed on public intoxication charges outside a fast food place in Lexington last month.
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