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You Should’ve Seen the One that Got Away

John Goldfinch, 61, was fishing on an English beach when he felt something like the bite of a huge, heavy fish. He reeled it in. Another man was swimming off that same Devon beach when something caught him between the legs and he was hauled to the surface. “The funniest thing was that his girlfriend then surfaced, helped him remove my tackle from his tackle, and nonchalantly handed the hook back to me and apologized,” Goldfinch said. One reason Goldfinch hadn’t noticed the diver, he explained, was that the latter had failed to use a safety buoy. “My brother-in-law’s a diver and he said it served the bloke right,” he said. “At the end of the day he could have ruined his kit or even worse.” (AC/London Telegraph) ...When your kit is caught near your “kit”, the close call’s kinda convincing for a boy without a buoy who barely escaped a [wince]-ing.