It's Shark Week! July 28, 2008
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Have any of you ever seen a shark in real life? I have twice. Once when I was out on a boat off the coast of Monterey about four years ago, and once last month when one washed up on the beach in Delaware (don't worry, someone quickly got the baby shark back in the water!). Anyway, I digress.
It's Shark Week, and because of that, we're going to put the below billboard up in the cities where shark attacks are the most frequent.
No one wants to be eaten. I mean, I certainly wouldn't want to be eaten by a shark, and I doubt any of you would, either (correct me if I'm wrong). Along those same lines, I also don't believe animals such as chickens, pigs, cows, and sharks (who are, indeed, killed for food) want to be eaten either. I know they're dead when they're eaten, so it's a bit different, but you won't see me agreeing to let someone kill me and feed me to someone else anytime soon!
♥ Marta
PS - I've been told countless times that Jaws is the best movie ever (okay—so it's only one person that's told me this over and over again), but I've yet to see it. I'm counting on you guys to tell me whether or not I need to see this movie. Yes or no?
Comments
Jaws was the main movie that made people start to fear sharks. It greatly villianizes sharks.
Posted by: Eric at July 28, 2008 4:21 PMJaws is boring and stereotypes sharks which is just awful.
Posted by: Dawn at July 28, 2008 6:59 PMThabks for bringing up that sharks are kileld for food! To make shark fin soup, people catch a shark, cut off all of its fins and then dump it back into the water, where it goes spiraling down to the bottom of the ocean, completley helpless. Then, it is eaten by fish. A slow and extremely painful death.
Posted by: Grace at July 28, 2008 7:33 PMevery one is telling me it would be really funny for an animal to eat a vegan like it's irony but still?!?
Posted by: kara♥ at July 28, 2008 9:09 PMIm really not feeling this billboard. I think that targeting high shark attack areas with this billboard will just make peta and vegeterians look insensitive. Rather than making people want to eat less meat,(or give it up altogether) its just going to piss people off. My Friend was bitten a few years back in the leg by a black tip reef shark, and he went through a lot of pain and suffering as a result.( Hes actually a vegetarian as well, not that that really matters).I can see familes of shark attack victims getting upset about this, and joining the ever growing, very vocal anti peta crowd. As a surfer, im just saying that being in a boat is a lot different from being in the water with sharks, and I think that this billboard is a little tactless(mostly because you are targeting high shark attack areas), and because generally the victims of shark attacks are just as innocent and unassuming as the animals we are trying to defend, and the billboard is sort of judgemental, which is the reason most people avoid vegetarians, church and politics. Thats just my two cents
Posted by: Jason at July 29, 2008 1:03 AMtaken in good humor, jaws is a pretty good movie, minus the ending. its worth seeing!
Posted by: raine at July 29, 2008 2:25 AMJaws is ok I like the song, "show me the way to go home..." The ride at Universal Studios will make you wet yourself though.
Posted by: Mikal at July 29, 2008 5:11 AMjaws is a classic! :) the other ones aren't too great though.
and the bilboard is hilarious!
happy shark week!
Love the Sign. I live on the Texas coast and I think it would be great to see this sign. I think it could have somewhat of an impact.
Posted by: Ellen at July 29, 2008 6:07 PMjaws was really stupid. don't watch it if you're in the mood for quality.
Posted by: lilly at July 30, 2008 3:42 AMJaws makes sharks look like there killers and any one or anything that comes in their path is going to be eaten, when in real life sharks only go after people on surf boards becuase they look like the food they eat which are seals i think. also sharks are killed like 50 persent more than they kill us.
Posted by: angelena at July 30, 2008 12:44 PMI agree with jason. The billboard means for good things, but i can definitely see people getting upset about it. Jaws was a cool movie though.
Posted by: Greg at July 30, 2008 2:02 PMJaws is just one of those films that everyone has to see, regardless of whether you think it's good or bad, it's a part of cinema history. I do agree with Eric though, most people became scared of sharks because of that film.
I'm not so sure about the billboard. Sharks don't eat humans on purpose, they mistake us for their natural prey. I also agree with Jason.
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Jaws was a pretty great movie. Number 1 was the best. I didn't care much for the other ones.
But that billboard is amazing. =D
Posted by: Amanda at July 28, 2008 4:13 PM