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03rd Nov 2014

Video: Australian dude surfs on a dead whale surrounded by sharks, immediately regrets decision

There's a shark in the water! And a dead whale! And an Australian guy with silly dreadlocks!

Eoghan Doherty

There’s a shark in the water! And a dead whale! And an Australian guy with silly dreadlocks!

Anyone know what the Australian for “eejit” is?

Say “G’day” to 26-year-old Harrison ‘Hazza’ Williams, an Australian lad who risked his life by riding on the back of a dead humpback whale’s rotting carcass.

Interviewed by 7 News, Hazza said it was a “spur of the moment decision” to jump in… even though the whale was being circled by a number of hungry sharks who were gorging themselves on the gargantuan beast at the time.

And you thought you’d seen everything crazy and Australian in last Friday’s episode of Home And Away…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjxFYTlmUI

Clip via 7 News.

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