Attorney's brave rescue attempt in shark attack

[vigil617]

News out of Australia details a fatal attack by a shark on a 50-year-old swimmer at a popular local beach. At attorney who was vacationing there saw the man in trouble and bravely swam out to rescue him, bringing him back to the beach and administering CPR. Unfortunately the victim apparently had lost too much blood to the bite on his leg, and died.

The attorney's actions were commendable, notwithstanding that as we all know, he did not risk getting bitten by the shark during the rescue.

Why?

Professional courtesy.

 

[Jessie]

And heeeeeeres Caj!

 

[Mcwsky09]

That reminds me of the guy who was in a head on collision in a vehicle without airbags, his entire left side was crushed and parts of his body that were not amputated are paralyzed. He's all right now.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

During shark attacks, I always try to find lawyers to throw in the water.
It's hard to do, they are fast and hard to catch!

 

[timn8er]

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[Texas Star]

That part about the shark attack is quite real. I don't know if the rescuer was a lawyer or not. A police spokesman thanked him for his gallantry, but the victim bled out on the beach.

Aircraft spotted a white shark in the area, several hundred miles north of Sydney.

This is in my MSN homepage news today.

Australia is surrounded by sharks, inc. great whites. Last year, clear across the country, there were two other fatal attacks by whites. Don't know about other species, but they have some dangerous ones. Their grey nurse shark is our sand tiger, BTW. It's one of the most evil looking of all sharks. In South Africa, it's called the Ragged Tooth.

BTW, there was a white shark attack off of False Bay, just north of Cape Town a couple of weeks ago. Our member Stirling lives there and also told me that the Discovery TV movie about a huge white shark nicknamed Submarine lurking off of Cape Town is pure bunk, as one would think, given the size (over 35 feet) and its alleged ability to lie still on the bottom. In fact, most sharks will drown if they don't keep swimming. The white is not one of the known exceptions.

Discovery has made a laughingstock of itself with recent fake nature programming. They should be ashamed.

 

[LostintheOzone]

A lawyer calls his client to tell him about his fee schedule.

"Alright," the lawyer says looking through his papers. "You owe me $10,000 down and $972.67 each month for the next sixty months.

"What! That sounds like a car payment schedule," retorted the client.

"Your right. They don't just give those BMW's away you know."

 

[Texas Star]

A local law firm has offices along a busy freeway, Central Expressway. They have a huge replica of a white shark mounted above their building.

 

[A-37]

A client gives his lawyer a crisp $100 bill in payment for services and leaves.

The lawyer later finds that it's two $100 bills stuck together which poses an ethical question:

Should he tell his partner?

 

[Doug M.]

One of my tats is a shark with a blood trail circled by two Bar admission dates. I have to giggle at how much people hate aggressive conflict seeking lawyers until they want one (and often for a prize winningly stupid reason).

 

[vigil617]

That part about the shark attack is quite real. I don't know if the rescuer was a lawyer or not.

He was. I'm not in the habit of handing out praise to lawyers if they don't deserve it.

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[bushmaster1313]

A lawyer hired a plumber to do 10 hours of work at the house.
The plumber said, "That'll be $2,000."
The lawyer said, "$2,000 for ten hours! That's $200/hour. I'm a lawyer and I only charge $100/hr."
The plumber said, "When I was a lawyer that's what I charged."

 

[Cyrano]

That reminds me of the guy who was in a head on collision in a vehicle without airbags, his entire left side was crushed and parts of his body that were not amputated are paralyzed. He's all right now.

Oooooohh, That's awful, just awful. You are to be congratulated.

Pilgrim: Where in NM do you find shark infested waters, in which to throw lawyers? Last I heard, there were none in the Rio Grande.

 

[Cyrano]

That reminds me of the guy who was in a head on collision in a vehicle without airbags, his entire left side was crushed and parts of his body that were not amputated are paralyzed. He's all right now.

Oooooohh, That's awful, just awful. You are
to be congatulated.

Pilgrim: Where in NM do you find shark infested waters, in which to throw lawyers? Last I heard, there were no sharks in the Rio Grande.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Oooooohh, That's awful, just awful. You are
to be congatulated.

Pilgrim: Where in NM do you find shark infested waters, in which to throw lawyers? Last I heard, there were no sharks in the Rio Grande.

Mostly at the Albuquerque Aquarium.
We call it 'Counsel Chumming.'

The final exhibit, a 285,000-U.S.-gallon (1,080,000 l) saltwater tank with a 38-foot (12 m) viewing window, displays six shark species (sandtiger sharks, sandbar sharks, blacktip sharks, nurse sharks, zebra sharks and tassled wobbegong), tarpon, barracudas, stingrays, large schooling fish, moray eels and three species of sea turtles (loggerhead, Kemp's Ridley, and hawksbill). Every day divers enter the tank to do daily chores like feeding and cleaning.

 

[WR Moore]

The attorney's actions were commendable, notwithstanding that as we all know, he did not risk getting bitten by the shark during the rescue.

Why?

Professional courtesy.

Not at all. The attorney simply mistook the shark for another attorney and attempted to beat him to the prospective client. Once the shark had bled the prospective client dry, there were no grounds for conflict.