A great idea from Ralston

Bill Ralston writes in support of John Key’s suggestion that “the presence of around 40 bleeding, offal-filled crab pots just off the beach” might be helping attract the sharks, and laments that Jim Anderton rejected it out of hand. He also points out the Seafood Industry Council is hardly an uninterested party in this.

Anyway I like his solution to find out who is right:

When confronted by common sense, the Government and interest groups automatically assumed entrenched positions to block it.

To solve the debate, I suggest that Jim Anderton, his experts and the worthy members of the Seafood Industry Council be placed in lifejackets and tethered to the suppurating crab pots for 24 hours to test whether or not they attract sharks. If they survive, they were right, if not, then they posthumously owe John Key and the bathers at Omaha an apology.

Heh.