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jakeXT

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Tue Jan 28, 2014, 12:22 PM Jan 2014

Man fights off shark, stitches up own leg, goes to the pub


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He quickly made it on to rocks on the shore, where he took off the wetsuit – borrowed from a friend – and saw bites up to 5cm long.

Grant gave himself stitches using a first aid kit he kept in his vehicle for pig hunts. He and his friends then went to the Colac Bay Tavern, where he was given a bandage because he was dripping blood on the floor.
The stitching was finished off when he went to Invercargill hospital, where he was back at work on Monday.

“It would have been great if I had killed it because there was a fishing competition on at the Colac Bay Tavern,” Grant told Stuff.co.nz.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/doctor-fights-shark-stitches-up-leg


Winning the fishing competition would have been the kicker...
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Man fights off shark, stitches up own leg, goes to the pub (Original Post) jakeXT Jan 2014 OP
Now that's the stuff of Crocodile Dundee liberal N proud Jan 2014 #1
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