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Sharks are big killing machines!

A surfer was killed Tuesday by a shark off a beach at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base following a summer of shark sightings along the Central California coast, authorities said….He was bitten by the shark in his upper torso.

Solorio “had a friend who he was surfing with who saw the shark bite or hit the man,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mark A. Williams. “His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid.”

The friend started first aid while another surfer called for help, but Solorio was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.

Jean-Michel Cousteau did a really interesting study on great whites, one of them shows a white going in to bite a duck decoy. Cousteau concluded that the mouth was the shark’s primary tactile organ, and it would do exploratory bites on anything it couldn’t make heads or tails of.

Chances are the shark suspected the surfer was something good to eat, and decided he wasn’t. Of course when your mouth is full of razor blades means that just because he doesn’t eat you doesn’t mean you don’t die!

Of all places, a compounding Pharmacy!

Water from a leaking boiler collected just outside a room that was supposed to be sterile. Floor mats used by technicians were filled with dirt and debris. Drugs were shipped out before the company even confirmed they were sterile.

State officials said Tuesday that they found these and other problems at the New England Compounding Center during a preliminary investigation into the company, linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.

OK I was wondering if this was a tampering attack since the contamination of the injectables seemed conveniently deadly…now I’m just amazed that we ONLY had an outbreak of Meningitis. I’ve spent a LOT of time working in sterile labs, and I’m amazed to see something THIS Bush League. And my labs are sterile because I work with ANIMALS these are drugs for PEOPLE!

(also you know things are bad when Deval Patrick actually shows his face in Massachusetts)