Big Dead Shark Goes for Train Ride, Gets Dumped on Street
The quote for today is “We don’t buy sharks off the street.”
Police were yesterday looking for two men who dumped a dead six-foot nurse shark on a street in downtown Miami, Florida. Image www.mirror.co.uk
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A 6ft shark carried on to city train and then dumped on a Miami street
By Mail Foreign Service | 23rd July 2009 | www.dailymail.co.uk
A dead shark was left lying in the middle of a Miami street after two men failed to sell it at several fish markets.
The men apparently carried the 6ft fish around on the city’s Metromover train system, prompting calls to police.
News footage showed the dead animal in the street with police officers and squad cars nearby.
Two stations reported that two men had tried to sell the animal to at least three fish markets for around $10.
Rob Orta, an employee at Casablanca Fish Market, told television station WSVN that the men offered him the shark.
‘But we don’t buy sharks off the street,’ Orta told the station.
Wildlife officials later determined the animal was a nurse shark. The case could result in misdemeanor charges of improper killing and disposal of an animal and selling a shark without a license.
One resident of the area where the shark was dumped said he didn’t know what was going on at first.
‘It was a relief that it was a shark,’ said Keith Smith. ‘When I first saw it, I thought it was a body because of all the shootings that have been going on.’