Bear vs Shark:

“It’s the near future (we still have SUVs, but now our TVs don’t have “off” buttons), and the U.S. is obsessed by one question: given a water level that would allow a shark to swim without keeping a bear from deft maneuvering, which one would win if they had a fight–the bear or the shark? The answer lies in the sovereign nation of Las Vegas, where bear and shark will go fin to paw in a computer-animated–it’s “realer than real”–rematch (the shark won the first time around). The story–written in short episodic chapters that are sometimes transcripts of commercials, including one for the world’s best “ursine porn” Web site– follows young Curtis Norman, who won tickets for his family with his essay “Bear v. Shark: A Reason to Live.” The short chapters keep the pace quick and the book funny, and the attacks on technophilic America will appeal to fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Mark Leyner. In the end, though, this first novel is eerily similar to the cultural phenomena it so relentlessly satirizes: hugely entertaining but not particularly deep.“

Via D-Squared, descubro que em essência o caso já foi resolvido:

“‘Iceman’ Wrestles Shark

An Icelandic fishing captain, known as “the Iceman”, wrestled and killed a 300kg shark to stop it attacking his crew, according to witnesses.

Captain Sigurdur Petursson was on a beach in Kuummiit, east Greenland, watching his crew processing a catch when he saw the shark swimming towards his men.

The skipper of the trawler Erik the Red, ran into the shallow water and grabbed the shark by its tail with his bare hands.

He dragged it off to dry land and killed it with his knife.
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Frede Kilime, a hunter and fisherman who witnessesed the extraordinary spectacle, said: “He caught it just with his hands. There was a lot of blood in the sea and the shark came in and he thought it was dangerous.”

Icelandic author and journalist Reynir Traustason, who knows the trawler captain, said the act was typical of the man.

“He’s called ‘the Iceman’ because he isn’t scared of anything,” he said.

“I know the people in that part of the world. They are really tough.”“