8Ft Shark Jumps into boat - Texas

AP
FREEPORT, Texas -- It's the catch of a lifetime, but it's not clear whether a Texas fisherman landed an 8-foot shark or it landed him.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jason Kresse of Freeport says he and two crew members were dumping fish guts in the Gulf of Mexico about 3:45 a.m. Monday when they heard splashes in the distance and then something hit the side of their 25-foot boat.

A shark in an apparent rush to feed had jumped into the back and was thrashing around. Kresse says the crew couldn't get close to the 375-pound fish to toss it back in the water.

It died several hours later.

The shark is on display at a seafood business in Freeport, about 55 miles south of Houston. Kresse says he plans to have it mounted.

Huh, that's some weird wacky stuff

wheres the pic..?
you know what sonny would say..

no pic - didnt happen   

WTH are they not eating it tho???  oah yeah, see no pic....

I saw the pic earlier this week. It was a Mako shark, suitably bad assed set of chompers on it, hence why they wouldn't get close enough to toss it back. In a small boat it would be really scary...heck, even in a big boat!

http://www.naplesnews.com/photos/galleries/2011/mar/30/mako-shark-jumps-boat-gulf-off-texas-fishermen/164955/

I wouldn't want to go after that in a boat either