FISHERMAN CATCHES LONG-LOST LEGO SHARK

A British fisherman managed to hook an incredibly rare shark – a tiny Lego shark worth a few hundred dollars on the resale market. Richard West, 35, netted the Lego shark 20 miles off of Cornwall’s coast. Lego experts know that particular Lego piece had gone missing from a cargo ship in 1997 – along with 62 other shipping containers worth of Legos – during an intense storm. Of the nearly five million plastic pieces that went off the ship that day, 51,800 Lego sharks are said to have gone overboard. West contacted the “Lego Lost at Sea” project – where folks flag the Legos they’ve managed to recover from the sea. The site confirmed the find as the first shark from the lost cargo ever to be located. It belonged to one of three sets: Shark Cage Cove, Shark Attack, or Deep Sea Bounty. The sharks are selling in the Lego resale world for between $105 to $532 apiece.
* Incredibly rare? I must be missing something ’cause up to now I thought Legos were molded plastic made in machines and if you lost a shipment of sharks you could just push a button and make 100,000 more.
* If only my life could be this interesting.
* The best way to catch Legos from the sea is to use one of those severed feet that wash up on the Oregon Coast every few months.
* One missing Lego from the cargo ship found and removed from the ocean, only about five million more to go.