A large and terrifying tiger shark has been caught off the east coast of Australia near the popular beach resort of Byron Bay. Good. Killer sharks of this magnitude have no business anywhere where swimmers and surfers congregate and the tiger is the world’s second- or third-deadliest, depending on where you rank the bull which is similarly voracious and evil. It’s time the bastards were taught a lesson they won’t forget. But you’re not supposed to say this any more, are you? I note that in the widespread media coverage it has received – and why not? everyone loves a good shark story – there’s the subtle implication that the fishermen who caught it did a bad thing. The people responsible are being very cagey about the exact circumstances of the shark’s demise. Might it even – sob! – have been caught on a wicked drum line? Sorry. Don’t care.