Two Shark incidents in two days off Mexico's Pacific coast--one dead Mexican, one American with a missing thumb--reprisals are likely. This makes the third Shark jam in the same area in a month.

The first jam was the first Shark related fatality in Pacific Mexico in over thirty years. The truly tragic thing about this is that given the ignorance of the local authorities off these beaches, there will probably be another Mexican Shark holocaust.

Friday's jam was the jammiest. Osvaldo Mata Valdovinos, a 21-year-old student was surfing near Zihuatanejo when a Shark chomped off one of his hands and took to nice chunks of his thigh. He bled out of his severed hand and foot-long hole in his thigh before help could arrive.

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Today's jam involved a 49-year-old American surfer. Information is a bit more sketchy on this one, but this surfer apparently got his thumb bitten off. He will recover. There is no information as to which species of Shark or Sharks were involved in these parties...still, we are going with Tiger Shark. A Tiger Shark has the kind of teeth that are good for severing things. Further proof that local Mexican authorities are chumps--they claim that the first fatal jam, the one in late April that spelled the end for Adrian Ruiz, involved a Grey Reef Shark. Grey Reef Shark my ass.

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Watch out for the /b/ Grey Reef Shark!

--Sharky

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