Man 'attacked' by dead shark
Thursday, November 8, 2001
A chef at a restaurant in Cornwall says his thumb was nearly ripped off by a dead shark.

Darren Smith was driving the porbeagle shark to the Dolphin restaurant in Newquay when the accident happened.

He braked sharply and his hand got caught in the shark's mouth, severing an artery and almost slicing his thumb off.

The 24-year-old told The Sun: "I felt a right idiot. I must be the first person in history to be attacked by a shark on dry land - and a dead one at that.

"The nurses at the hospital couldn't stop laughing when I said how it happened."

Mr Smith needed 17 stitches after the accident involving the seven feet-long shark.

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