Fun fact: The kid from Jaws is now the police chief of the town where it was filmed

 

Jonathan Searle must now bear the town’s intergenerational shark-hunting burden.


Terrible news has visited the town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts once again. After having its previously friendly waters tainted with the psychic terror of impending shark attacks after Steven Spielberg descended upon the town to film Jaws nearly 50 years ago, Oak Bluffs must now be reminded once again of its monstrous fish nightmare and the citizens who worsened the problem as a child actor from the movie has become its new real-life police chief.

IndieWire reports that Jonathan Searle, who, along with his brother, played the pair of kids swimming around with a fake shark fin and causing mass panic in a scene from Jaws, has now taken over where Martin Brody left off and become Oak Bluffs new police chief. Though we have to hope that he’s learned a thing or two about hunting down killer fish from growing up in the Martha’s Vineyard beach town immortalized as the movie’s Amity Island, we remain concerned about any political process that would entrust a child involved in a shark hoax with such an important position.

Found on the AV club.

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