Police on Hawaii’s Big Island are investigating whether a 20 year-old Romanian man who on Monday emerged from a swim in the waters off Anaeho’omalu Bay in Waikoloa with bloody lacerations to his foot consistent with teeth marks was bitten by a shark, MauiNow.com reports.
It’s not clear why “consistent with” a shark bite isn’t enough to just say a shark bit the poor bastard since the available circumstantial evidence strongly indicates it was a shark. Unless they’re prepared to reveal knowledge of the existence of some kind of new form of predatory sea life previously unknown to the public they should just go ahead and blame a shark. Like what else is there to this “investigation” if the cops aren’t also considering that a radioactive bear with a mutated ability to breathe underwater found its way from Siberia to Hawaii? And if and when they find the shark and its teeth marks match perfectly to the bite are they going to say it “allegedly” bit the guy?