Fake Hurricane Sandy shark photo migrates to Chinese web

A Weibo user identified “the U.S. hurricane” as the source of the "shark swimming in New Jersey streets" photo, which has been proven to be fake (we could totally tell by the pixels). He added of the shark, “In China, it would’ve been cooked already.” More at WaPo.

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I am pretty sure sharks are smart enough to know to swim to deep water to rude out the storm. They are also strong enough to be able to do so.
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“In China, it would’ve been cooked already.”

But only the fins; they’d've thrown the rest away.
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Fake Hurricane Sandy shark photo

Curse you Sandy! First massive destruction, then fraudulent photoshopping!

Will you stop at nothing?

What’s next, Rick Rolling?
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After I saw two people post that on Facebook, one captioned as “Wildwood, NJ” and the other as “Brigantine, NJ”, I put this picture together depicting the devastation in my relatively unaffected part of New Jersey.