If beachgoers on the 71st Street shoreline played I-Spy Monday morning, none would have guessed they’d spot a shark washed ashore – with a hook still in its mouth, according to an eyewitness who said the shark’s gills and fin appeared to move briefly.
“I went up there to get my quiet on, before all the crazy starts, and the crazy was waiting for me,” she said.
The beachgoer was sitting on the 72nd Street beach shortly before 9 a.m. when she noticed a member of the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol pulling something from the shoreline before she got up…
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