This must have made for an interesting 911 call.

The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of a downtown Miami street after two men tried to sell it to several fish markets.

The men apparently carried the five or six-foot-long fish around on the city’s Metromover downtown train, prompting calls to police.

News footage Tuesday night showed the dead animal in the street with police officers and cruisers nearby. Two stations reported that a pair of men had tried to sell the animal to at least three fish markets for around $10.

Rob Orta, an employee at Casablanca Fish Market, told television station WSVN that the men offered his business the shark.

“But we don’t buy sharks off the street,” Orta told the station.

Wildlife officials later determined the animal was a nurse shark. The case could result in misdemeanor charges of improper killing and disposal of an animal and selling a shark without a license.

Did anyone set up ramps for some ‘jump the shark‘? I’ve been a resident of Florida for over 25 of the last 33 years.(I was in the Navy for 10 years but spent two of those years stationed in Orlando.) and very little that happens down here surprises me any more.

If the shark sellers are ever identified by Florida Fish and Wildlife officials, they will be charged with a crime. Less idiotic violations have gotten people large fines.