Seen on road: Car with shark affixed to it

The video was posted to the Perth & WA Fishing Reports Facebook page.

Fellow Safety Bay motorist Julie Wright “had to look twice” when she saw the 2m shark, and quickly had her son film the unusual scene.

The footage which has been watched nearly 400,000 times on Facebook has had a mixed response from commentators.

The DOF’s website said there was a maximum size limit for tiger sharks caught recreationally off Perth and in other parts of the West Coast bioregion.

“And normally people keep big fish like that in their boat, not in front of their auto”.

Something tells me if old mate driver is bold enough to reel in a tiger shark, he won’t care about a grand of cash money going to waste.

Bonnie Jupp commented: “The shark will have absolutely no use to the dude who caught this, it will give him heavy metal poisoning if he eats it. Killing a protected species for a laugh is evil, no matter what the species”.

He said by the time he landed the animal, it was dead, and he didn’t want to leave it in the water because divers were nearby and he was anxious the carcass would attract more sharks.

While it is unclear if the tiger shark shown in the video is of an illegal size, the driver of the 4WD could potentially face a fine for a deliberately obscured license plate, WA Today points out.