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Random nude man jumps into Toronto aquarium with sharks
My Google-fu is weak today.
I can’t find a clip or pic of the scene in Analyze This where Dr Sobel gets thrown in the shark tank.
Relax, this is just Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) performing a stunt so he can get information from Everyone.
This sounds more dramatic than it probably was. Sand tiger sharks are kind of lazy and not particularly dangerous to humans. They’re one of those shark species that can breathe without moving forward, so they mostly lay around on the bottom during the day.
I’m intrigued by the word “random”. If he made the decision for a nude man to go in the aquarium, then it couldn’t be described as “random” that he assigned the task to himself. The implication is that someone else made the decision, and I think that’s who we should be asking questions about.
In general, most smallish sharks are not going to see you as food anyway. I used to dive quite a bit. They look bigger underwater than they actually are, so the first few times you see one, you think “OMG a shark,” but they ignored me. But I did know someone who said he did a long ascent after spearfishing, carrying his catch, with a shark tagging along behind him. That is not smart IMO: I would have let the fish loose.
Just got off the phone with my friend who visited Toronto this weekend and swears it wasn’t him.
and he had an accomplice, too, because the news report i saw earlier said that he got out and a woman who was nearby handed him his clothes. it definitely was a planned bit of culture-jamming, or something.

