Man attacks shark (it's amazing what vodka does)

[Bjarkih]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1849109.htm

Man attacks shark

An Eyre Peninsula [South Australia] man is the talk of the
town after catching a bronze whaler shark in his hands and
wrestling it up onto a jetty.

Phillip Kerkhof from Louth Bay was at the local jetty when
the 1.3-metre shark began chasing squid lures.

He says he climbed down a ladder and began to follow the
shark in shallow water.

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

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

The only damage from the dangerous species was a bite mark
to his jeans.

"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
doing it'," Mr Kerkhof said.

Incidentally, my Pop (grandfather) and his mate once found
a two-metre hammerhead thrashing around in a shallow beach
gully left by a low tide, and waded in to throw it out on
the beach. Pop rang the local radio station's fishing show
to say how they'd caught a hammerhead. When the bloke asked
him what tackle they'd used - he told them that they didn't,
that they'd used their hands to man-wrestle it - the bloke
hung up on them.

Pop kept the dried tail on the wall in his closed back
verandah for as long as I can remember.

(Pop liked his grog too)