NOTD: Shark Statue Dumped Into Swiss Lake
If you fancy swimming with the sharks without the worry of them taking a chunk out of you, a dip in Lake Neuchâtel would be ideal. Lurking in the depths of the murky water is a terrifying shark statue that’s been scaring divers half to death in Switzerland. The monstrous model sports a truly chilling grin that flashes every inch of its huge jaws while its pectoral fins look as though they are in flight mode. So, it’s no wonder those poor divers have been startled. The shark statue sits at the bottom of the lake in Romandy and appears to be floating, thanks to its supporting structure. It has been suggested that it was dumped there by a prankster, keen to convince locals the film Jaws is actually real. Their stunt hasn’t been doing a bad job at that either, as it’s forced a host of divers to do a panicked double take. Footage of a gang of underwater explorers coming across the petrifying prop has been doing the rounds on social media. [P]eople have been left in stitches by the creativeness of the alleged mischief maker. Then, again, it would hardly have the same effect if you parked it at a bus stop, would it? Sleuths on Reddit somehow managed to recognise the shark and said it was used as a prop in the film Choc au Lac! It is featured in one of the scenes from the 1975 movie, which was created by a group of 176 kids from Neuchâtel. The flick was, of course, about a giant shark that [terrorized] the town but, was unfortunately never finished.
[Even] the amateur detectives on Reddit can’t work out how the shark statue made its way down to the bottom of the lake. It is suspected that the 20ft long replica, made of [fiberglass], was probably dumped in the lake as a prank. Other theories include that it was put there as an unofficial tourist attraction or to create a hype for the unfinished film. To be fair, it has become a hot-spot for divers who want to see how scary it actually is, in the flesh, since 2002. Social media users haven’t been as enthusiastic about taking a trip down to the depths, even if it is just a statue.
One said: “Good thing the water is so murky so nobody can see me s**t my pants.”
Another wrote: “Now, imagine being the first dude that came across this.”
A third added: “This picture makes me feel sick to my stomach, like, visceral fear inside me is telling me to run as far as I can.”
Others were more intrigued by the elaborate plan behind abandoning the shark [in the lake], nicknamed Bruce by locals, .
Someone said: “I can’t tell if I want to shake the hand of whoever made it or run away from them.”
Another added: “What sick f**k thought this was a good idea?!”
At least you now know that thing whipping around your legs in Lake Neuchâtel is just a prop. Or is it?
Divers Given Scare
Olivia Burke
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October 27, 2023 at 10:06 PM
Wow. It’s not hard to imagine how this shark statue can scare the you-know-what out of divers, especially those who don’t know anything about it!
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October 27, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Truly. It would be quite a shock…unless you knew what you were looking for.
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October 28, 2023 at 1:13 AM
So he has been down there since 2002? I think stuff like that is cool. It was scare the hell out of me if I saw that thing. It looks like a demented shark.
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October 28, 2023 at 1:01 PM
It would certainly scare the shit out of me.
No one seems to know who put it there.
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October 28, 2023 at 1:06 PM
I love things like this…I wonder how they got the thing…I would have kept it somehow lol.
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October 28, 2023 at 1:45 PM
There wasn’t any background on how it had been acquired after the movie filming shutdown. I think that is why there was so much chatter on Reddit. It’s a “whodunit.”
I can see you putting it in your backyard. LOL!
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October 28, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Yes…Yes I would!
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October 29, 2023 at 1:17 PM
LOL!
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October 28, 2023 at 4:30 AM
Unless it’s a cartoon, I don’t believe sharks smile like that
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October 28, 2023 at 1:05 PM
I am inclined to agree. Ha!
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October 28, 2023 at 12:48 PM
That would be fun to put into the different offshore dive sites ..
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October 28, 2023 at 1:40 PM
You mean, like around shipwrecks?
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October 29, 2023 at 11:48 AM
Man, that would scare the heck out of me.
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October 29, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Me, too. I have never gone “diving”…except in a swimming pool. I would freak & probably drown.
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October 29, 2023 at 3:30 PM
I would be there with you.
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October 29, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Excellent! It’s that kind of thinking we need around Intrigued during haunt season.
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October 29, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Have mercy…😝🙃
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October 30, 2023 at 10:27 AM
Lulu: “Now there’s something you don’t see every day …”
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December 9, 2023 at 8:15 PM
I agree.
Sorry for my delay in responding…life got in the way.
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November 2, 2023 at 11:06 PM
I’ve been there…. Not swimming there
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December 9, 2023 at 8:14 PM
Been to that exact lake?
Sorry for my delay in responding…life has gotten in the way.
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December 10, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Just seeing if I commenting on your post acts up like yours did on mine.
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December 10, 2023 at 7:13 PM
Not from my viewpoint… I have other issues in my feed. I have posts with videos that won’t play. I had a happiness engineer check into it for me and found out that my videos are stuck in a “cache.” They identified the problem. They did nothing to fix it.
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December 10, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Wish I could help in some way. My younger half-brother is in IT and has set up websites before. Maybe he or someone he works with can help. I’ll give him a shout.
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December 10, 2023 at 9:05 PM
I don’t know that he could help. IDK if WP is a closed system or not. Perhaps one could tweak their own blog, somehow, if they were good with PHP & Javascript. I was in IT for YEARS. I burned out. I don’t think he could do anything unless he became a WP employee…a “happiness engineer.”
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