Shark gets away with two fingers in attack on surfer

12/29/2012

The increasingly tumultuous human-shark coexistence just got a little rockier. A shark attack on a surfer Friday off the coast of Port Macquarie, Australia, has ended in two lost fingers and bites to the legs. The 29-year-old victim appears to be admirably calm after the incident, though people in Australia, home of the deadliest everything in the world, typically don't raise an eyebrow on shark attacks unless at least one entire appendage is lost. Resourceful buddies applied tourniquets using their surfboard leg straps. Then, presumably, cracked open a few Fosters while they waited for paramedics.

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