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Gold Coast woman catches sandcrab that’s a dead ringer for Michael Jackson

An uncanny likeness of late pop-megastar Michael Jackson has appeared on the backside of an egg-bearing female sand crab hauled from the Tweed River. In what can only be described as a Christmas miracle the top-shelling artist was reeled in — rather than caught in a pot — by Currumbin local Megan Short on Tuesday afternoon. The real Thriller was when Ms Short looked at the photos she took of the crab, which also happened to have only had one white claw.  “I thought oh my god that’s Michael Jackson’s face!” the 41-year-old said. Commercial fisherman Ben Markwell has been fishing in the Tweed region for more than 30 years and had never seen anything like Michael Jackson’s face on the backside of a crab. “I’ve never seen a face like that on a blue swimmer crab,” he said. “When I saw it I went oh s*** – that’s a face there.” Read the rest here 10:14