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United States</a>: lots of water and people tweeting this dumb photo of a shark “swimming” on a freeway.</p><p>As <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/houston-told-people-to-stay-for-harvey-now-they-cant-get-out">Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston</a> over the weekend, <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricane-harvey-devastates-texas-with-floods-destruction">leaving millions trapped</a> as <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricane-harvey-is-scaring-everyone-away-but-these-people">floods overtook the Texas metropolis</a>, people on the Internet began re-circulating a poorly photoshopped image of a “shark” swimming alongside cars.</p><div class="Oembed"></div><p>The photo made its debut back in 2011 when Hurricane Irene hit Puerto Rico.</p><div class="Oembed"></div><p>Then resurfaced in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy.</p><div class="Oembed"></div><p>And once again in 2015, when Houston experienced severe flooding and when Hurricane Joaquin hit South Carolina.</p><div class="Oembed"></div><div class="Oembed"></div><p><a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/hurricane-irene-photo-of-shark-swimming-in-street-is-fake/2011/08/26/gIQABHAvfJ_blog.html?utm_term=.1bca8ab10787"><em>The Washington Post</em> reported</a> in 2011, Reddit users found the mysterious photo had similarities to a photo of a shark lurking behind a kayak in a 2005 issue of <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="http://www.whitesharktrust.org/media/newsmedia2/africageographic200509p4243.jpg"><em>Africa Geographic</em></a>.</p><p>Thus proving Landshark is not real.</p></div></article><div class="ArticleFooter"><div class="ArticleFooter__footer-ad"></div><div class="ArticleFooter__outbrain"><section class="Outbrain ArticleOutbrain"><div class="OUTBRAIN" 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