10 The news of the week (quantitatively) was the attack by a fish on an Italian tourist on Arenal beach. Above the argument between the mayor of Felanitx and a municipal police officer and, of course, something as "irrelevant" as the fact that Mallorcan bus workers have declared an indefinite strike. Who will care about the working conditions of TIB employees if a lifeguard warns over the PA system at her first-aid post in first aid-friendly English: "No swimming due to shark attack!"? Glorious. We spent two days reading analyses, conjectures, speculations, and dissertations about the type of fish that had injured the elderly woman in the calf. I've lost count of the possible names the experts gave. None confirmed, by the way, that it was a shark. But it doesn't matter. If you announce the presence of a shark on a beach, you ensure there won't be a second victim. Deterrent effect.

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