Peter Benchley NOT eaten by shark

In spite of her reputation for cruelty, Mother Nature missed a golden opportunity this past Saturday when she failed to kill author Peter Benchley by shark attack.

The famous author of Jaws, Benchley also enjoyed a career in politics (writing speeches for Lyndon Johnson), but never the sheer joy of a soulless killing machine mercilessly rending his flesh.
Benchley’s death calls to mind the recent documentary Anatomy of a Shark Bite, which features the eminent Dr. Erich Ritter’s close encounter of the getting-bitten kind with a 350-lb. shark. Ritter was trying to prove that sharks will ignore larger objects, such as humans, even in the presence of chum. Unfortunately, the only thing he proved was that Mother Nature, in spite of missing this past weekend’s chance at applying an irony more delicious than Emeril Lagasse’s vodka marinara sauce, can still deliver the occasional ‘bitingly’ sarcastic and implacable response to human stupidity that lends creedence once again to Dr. Darwin’s oft-maligned Theory of Evolution.

Feb 13, 2006

• Posted by Vasken
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• Anatomy of a Shark Bite, Dr. Erich Ritter's, Emeril Lagasse's, Jaws, Peter Benchley

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