Only outlaws will have sawfish. An Australian man, sleeping in his own trailer, was awakened by two attackers wielding an unusual weapon. The man was savaged by a sawfish snout.
Police said two thieves broke into a caravan at Bundaberg in southeast Queensland Tuesday night and attacked the 40-year-old occupant with the fish snout, a length of cartilage with a row of serrated teeth around its outside edge.
The victim suffered cuts to his back, hands and arms in the attack and was treated by paramedics after the assailants fled, they said.
Police later said they had dropped their investigation of the case after the victim withdrew his complaint for reasons that were not made public.
They did not say whether the attackers happened across the sawfish bill in the caravan or deliberately brought it with them as a means of subduing their victim.
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard know exactly what happened, of course. The two intruders were the sawfish and his human accomplice. Who better to use a sawfish bill than the original owner himself? So now, the Animal Uprising™ is sending sawfish assassins after people.
(Incidentally, one wonders if the matter wasn't dropped because of this other little nugget of news from a few days ago.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international conference on endangered species banned almost all trade yesterday in sawfish — large shark-like rays whose long snouts bristling with teeth are in high demand among collectors.
All seven species of sawfish are listed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union due mainly to overfishing.
They are highly valued for their fins, meat and snouts known as rostra which can be up to 61/2 feet long. They also are caught and traded as live animals for aquaria and parts of their bodies are used in traditional Asian medicines.
Probably not, since the ban exempts the species found in Australian waters, but one has to wonder, doesn't one?)
