CHARLOTTE, N.C.,None — Three friends said they found a shark stuck in a car wash drain in north Charlotte after the heavy rains died down Friday.
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According to the three friends, they were walking when someone told them there was a shark at the car wash, so they went to check it out. They said they could smell the shark before they saw it.
"(We were) wondering how in the world a shark ended up at a car wash coming out of the sewer. Everything was flooded though, like the whole park was flooded," one person said.
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They said the shark was dead when they found it. No one knows exactly where it came from.
Some areas of Charlotte received as much as 6 inches of rain in the course of a few hours Friday.
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