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Old 11-24-2009, 10:11 PM  
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Originally Posted by PR_Tom View Post
Remember the summer of 2001 the news kept reporting on all the shark attacks and spotting a dark spot in the water would trigger breaking news alerts? Then it turned out that 2001 was actually a lower shark attack rate than previous years. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks...ttack2001.html
It was just hyped so much, you'd swear you were going to be carjacked by a great white. Time magazine even ran a cover story: Year of the Shark! http://www.time.com/time/2001/sharks/cover.html


And long before that folks, it was Killer Bees coming to kill us!!! They were set to enslave mankind back in the 70's I think. zomg, they're africanized! Run for your lives!
There was an awesome discovery channel show on that. "Summer of the Shark" or something like that. Went into the whole thing and how it was simply a media frenzy. Cool show.
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