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Friday, April 04, 2008

Posted 3:05 PM by Rob Falk

Also not true...

This, found at Snopes.com, my favorite place for debunking stories of all kinds:
The improbable tale of "Cindy," a female shark who developed a "mutual affection" with an Australian fisherman named Arnold Pointer after the latter saved her life by freeing her from a fishing net, is outlined in a PowerPoint presentation that has circulated widely via e-mail. While the story is based on an article published in the French fishing magazine Le Magazine des Voyages de Pêche, that article was merely an April Fools' prank item from 2006 which has since been translated into English and presented as a factual account

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