I bet that any minute now John Mariska, a biologist with the state's Marine Resources Division on Dauphin Island, who I bet has already looked at the photo on WAFF-TV's web site will say it was probably a finetooth shark caught during a fishing rodeo on the Gulf Coast last weekend and dumped on the dock. Finetooth sharks are relatively small sharks that don't get any bigger than 6 feet.

Mark my words.

Ghastly: Looks pretty small. Probably some one's aquarium pet that got too big, or simply died and got dumped on the dock as a prank.

'Fellows, let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish... And I'm not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.'

Sad really, the shark managed to travel overland halfway across the state of Alabama, then couldn't make those last few feet off the dock to safety.

Still, an inspiring effort

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that a rusty truck and a couple cases of Keystone were involved.