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QuoteFriend Jim Robins downplayed the event at the time. "He was walking so it couldn't have been that bad," he said.
However, his friends did do him a favour - taking him to the tavern in Colac Bay before the hospital.
The pub at Colac Bay served him a beer alongside a few bandages to stop his leg from dripping blood on the carpet.
Invercargill shark attack doctor stitches own leg | Stuff.co.nz