In case you had any lingering doubts left about it, you definitely can't go in the ocean. It's just not do-able. Going in the ocean has just bumped up on the list of "things I can't do" above skydiving and jumping a motorcycle over a school bus Evil Knievel style. Over the last few months there have been increasing reports of violent animal attacks on humans. Today's fatal Great White shark attack in San Diego is only the latest in a litany of increasingly strange animal behavior. A few months ago GQ published a controversial article suggesting that animals were intentionally turning against humans as an act of revenge for taking up so much space on the planet. The incidents it detailed were real, but much of the article's thesis was fictional, which made a lot of people pretty pissed. And then that stingray killed the woman in Florida last month. For the second time in history. While it certainly seems highly unlikely that animals could be consciously starting to target us out of revenge, it does seem ironic that the one swimmer picked from a group of 9 by the Great White today was a veterinarian. Either way, I'm sticking out of the water.





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