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Remember that "summer of the Sharks" a couple years back, is this the raging of the ray?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19/sti...eut/index.html
POSTED: 10:33 a.m. EDT, October 19, 2006
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- A leaping stingray stabbed an 81-year-old Florida boater in the chest, authorities said Wednesday, leaving its poisonous stinger lodged close to his heart in an incident recalling the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.
Fire Department officials in Lighthouse Point, about 30 miles north of Miami, said James Bertakis was in a small recreational boat with two grandchildren Tuesday when the spotted eagle ray leaped aboard and struck him.
"It's just a real freak thing," Lt. Mike Sullivan told Reuters, saying the incident occurred on Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, where stingrays are rarely seen leaping in the air. (Watch to see the speckled creature's face, stringy tail and what's happened to the victim-- 1:25)
"For an 81-year-old man he's in really good shape," Sullivan added, saying Bertakis was expected to make a full recovery after surgery at a local hospital to have the stinger removed from his chest.
"Crocodile Hunter" Irwin, 44, died when a stingray's stinger punctured his heart off Australia's north coast last month. It was one of only a handful of stingray fatalities on record.
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Remember that "summer of the Sharks" a couple years back, is this the raging of the ray?
theyr waging war against humans! save yourselves fools!
dont get steve irwined
They have found our weakness!
All these years we have seen sharks as the enemy, was this some plot to avert our gaze from the real danger, is it too late to take back our waters?
Okay, that's it. Next time I'm driving down by the beach, I'm keeping my windows rolled up!!!
I remember being able to touch the stingrays at the aquarium in Corpus...
stingrays can leap? that far? haha yes our weakness is a poisonous spear in the heart!
i'm not going anywhere near the beach.
since when did they even have a beach near the desert?
i live 3 hours away from the beach.
That'll do no good. They'll just hang on underneath the car until you stop. Then you'll think your safe and just at that moment... they've got you.
And buying bigger windshield wipers!
No stingrays at the beach here. Only great whites.
The thing we need to ask ourselves is, why do the stingrays hate us?
Which one?
Does she go to your school?
Why won't you go near her?
It is only a matter of time until stingrays learn to drive. You are not safe.
If you ever encounter the Jack Bauer Stingray, it will already be too late.
(Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the bomb was)
Your witty snips never cease to amaze me....
You have a gift indeed.
Your stingerproof vest. Don't leave home without it.
You can run...
But you can't hide...
Coming, to a theater near you this Christmas...
I just filed a patent for a kevlar wet suit
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