Cali Surfers Take Turf War to New Level?

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California surfers, eager to thin out the crowds on their favorite surf breaks, appear to have posted signs along Santa Cruz and Capitola beaches warning of a massive great white shark, Hawaii News Now reports. 

The shark and three shark encounters detailed on the “Shark Warning Water Advisory” were fake. 

In one fabricated incident, the shark, estimated at up to 15-feet long, took a 36-inch bite out of a stand-up paddle board.

The trick didn’t seem to work. Surfers still charged the waves.

The signs have since been taken down.

Read more here. 

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(Photo: Flickr, Pleasure Point, California)

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