'Jaws' Worries At This Popular East Coast Vacation Spot: Weird News & Oddities

A Jersey Shore mayor is raising alarms about beach anglers using drones and kayaks to drop bait far offshore, worried the practice is pulling sharks a little too close to swimmers near Bay Head. No attacks have actually occurred along the Jersey Shore in 2026, but that hasn’t stopped the “Jaws” comparisons from circulating. In other weird news, a Maryland woman is fighting a court order to stop feeding raw chicken to flocks of up to 100 vultures in her backyard, and a Great Pyrenees named Bruce was euthanized in California despite a last-minute appeal that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.