Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
At some point in the future, Leonard and I are…
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
At some point in the future, Leonard and I are going to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Not this one in New Orleans. Best quotes:
Ten aquarium visitors, including four children, fell into a shark tank and thrashed around in terror for up to 15 minutes with the animals swimming beneath their kicking feet before they were pulled out.No one was seriously hurt, though one of the children, a 2-year-old girl, later woke up screaming in the night.
The visitors fell in Wednesday night when a catwalk over the water collapsed.
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Erin Rooney, 14.... "I never wanted to go near the sharks, and the worst part is I was scared to go on the catwalk and people were making fun of me for not wanting to go on it."
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Officials said the guests were in little if any danger.
"We didn't have `Jaws' in the aquarium or anything like that," said Ron Forman, president of the Audubon Institute, which runs the aquarium.
