The myth of Southern California (or the lie we choose to perpetrate, you decide) is that it never rains here. Always sunny and 72-degrees. Admittedly, it is mainly desert area, our annual rainfall is rather minimal. However, when it it is raining, we take "cats and dogs" to a whole new level.
Yesterday, it rained a shark.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-shark-golf-course-20121025,0,7711527.story?track=rss
Okay, maybe 'rained' is a stretch, as it was just one startled shark in a very isolated 'storm'. But while golfers in Southern California are rarely worried about being struck by lighting, several were shocked yesterday to watch a tiger shark land on the course. Though they were impressed that he avoided the water hazard.
I'll let you play with that picture in your head for a moment.....a surfer was just killed by a great white shark off the coast, so we have some serious predators in the water....before I put it in some perspective. Speculation is that a bird picked it up and was trying to get it to a nest before deciding it was really in the mood for fried chicken instead of two feet of fresh sushi.
One golfer sprang into action and grabbed the poor shark, driving it (in a car after determining his driver was too small) quickly back to the Pacific 5 miles away. The shark is now telling fish tales about how he made a hole in one on the golf course yesterday.
So, we continue to survive L.A., though the hazards on the golf course really bite.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
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