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British 'shark hero' sacked for being on sick leave

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A British man hailed as a hero for wrestling a shark away from an Australian beach said Tuesday he had been sacked after it emerged that he was on sick leave at the time.

Paul Marshallsea, a 62-year-old charity worker from Wales, won praise in January when he ran into the sea near Brisbane to grapple with the 1.8 metre (6-foot) shark, fearing it would attack paddling children.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-shark-hero-sacked-being-sick-leave-185238193.html
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Funny. I don't remember seeing anything about that on the news here. Neither the original incident, nor his sacking.  :undecided:
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i’m sure i posted the original news item.  on tt so can not check back.
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Here you go

https://www.i30ownersclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=19981.msg213088#msg213088
OK. Well Bulcock Beach isn't even an ocean beach. It's a little strip of sand alongside Pumicestone Passage, inside Bribie Island and actually only one block from the main street of Caloundra.
I read the local papers and watch the local news most nights. It didn't draw any significant attention here.

Anyway, serves him right. Bloody Poms always over here interfering with the wild life. :whistler:
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Serves him right. A right doesn't right a wrong.
As for wildlife interference, look at the deviant trend they started when they invaded NZ ... poor sheep.  :scared:
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All sounds very fishy to me,charity worker on stress leave,what all his unsolicited phone calls at tea time not get any donations and his wife was also on stress leave at exactly the same time,I not only smell fish I smell bull dung as well
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Wouldnt a holiday be a part of a doctors therapy for stress?

Bloody hard I say, unless he & his wife have previous for slacking!
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All sounds very fishy to me,charity worker on stress leave,what all his unsolicited phone calls at tea time not get any donations and his wife was also on stress leave at exactly the same time,I not only smell fish I smell bull dung as well
Yep. If it really happened and at Bulcock Beach it would have been a Bull Shark. They love the canals and waterways near the coast. No intended pun on the name of the beach (at least by me).
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