A shark-attack victim had to get 800 stitches to close the flesh over his thigh bone last week, and an animal rights organization has released an ad implying the attack was payback. Charles Wickersham, 21, was spear-fishing off Anna Maria Island in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend when a shark bit his leg. He had surgery Monday and is expected to be released from hospital next week. PETA's response? An ad showing a bloodied leg sticking out of a shark's mouth with the words: "Payback Is Hell. Go Vegan." “We're glad (Wickersham's) going to be OK,” PETA spokeswoman Ashley Byrne told QMI Agency Saturday. “But we hope that after experiencing such pain and fear, he will consider the fact that fish feel the same pain and fear when they're hunted. "We hope that he'll find a non-violent hobby and that other fishermen will do the same.”...more
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