Unraveling a long wire insulated with gutta-percha, he dropped a lure of mock meat that, as the shark soon discovered, was entirely the wrong thing to chew.
Likable is fine, credible always helps, but watchable is everything: he must be a lure to the eyes.
Was he a murderer, luring in girls in with antiques?
In 1989, when he was 17, he lured a 15-year-old boy into the woods, strangled him and, in a flourish that made the murder national news and put the case on the cover of Sports Illustrated, stole his Air Jordan sneakers.
Facing a tight deadline, Alberts tapped boosters for nearly $400,000 so he could lure Dean Blais, a two-time national champion at North Dakota, to coach men's hockey, Nebraska-Omaha's only Division I program.
L'inizio Pizza Bar in Queens, New York, made headlines when its manager, Sean Benedetti, reported a 75% surge in sales over the weekend, after he spent $10 to lure a dozen Pokémon.
At one point, he admits in the documentary, he used the lure of a visit to actor Richard Dreyfuss's home to get a top US nuclear scientist, Arthur Biehl, to join the board of one of his companies.
You could tell by the seamless way he could lure more than a dozen animals at a time out of their pens, onto his trailer and into the endless Texas night, like some Pied Piper of bovines.
The extortion charge stems from an accusation that Mr. Daragjati, who operates a snow-plowing business on Staten Island, where he lives, lured a man he suspected of stealing his plow to a parking lot where others beat him and ordered him to return the plow or pay $5,000.
Mr. Jaycobs said that he hoped to lure a sizable portion of that site's 200,000 active users to the real futures exchange.
