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Stingray leaps into boat, stabs man in chest

Phobiac - 10-19-2006 at 05:57 AM

O.K. we have to stop pissing off the stingrays. The last thing I need is a damn stingray breaking down my front door, stealing my beer and stabbing me in the chest before he has a party with his aquatic friends.

Quote:

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.

"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.


[Edited on 19-10-2006 by Phobiac]

corkey16 - 10-19-2006 at 10:00 AM

That's sad and weird that he survide because he left the stinger in and let someone take it out for him and Steve Irwin ripped the stinger out himself. Makes you wonder, huh.

imarob2 - 10-19-2006 at 10:20 AM

i think that pretty much goes for any stabby thing. if you pull it out yourself, youll probably die of blood loss.

JunoRedneck - 10-19-2006 at 01:15 PM

Fuck sting rays.


I can control bat rays with my mind though. Ask Evil.

happysmilely - 10-26-2006 at 07:53 AM

This is worse then when Jaws came out.

I'm going to market sting ray repellent.
Anyone want to join me?

JunoRedneck - 10-26-2006 at 08:38 AM

I'm in!

Evil - 10-28-2006 at 06:39 PM

hekka nar nar LOL

nitsujvg - 10-29-2006 at 11:27 AM

im with phobiac here

what did we do to piss off so many stingrays?!!?


it must be the global warming..
or hazardous waste dumping..

poobs - 10-29-2006 at 11:31 AM

Or intruding on their territory..OR maybe they're looking to take over THE WORLD!! :wow:

nitsujvg - 10-29-2006 at 11:41 AM

they've had it with this bullshit of being the 2746th scariest creature on earth.
THEY WANT CONTROL

poobs - 10-29-2006 at 11:58 AM

We should form some kind of anti-stingray world domination committee..We could meet once a week and eat finger sammiches and drink tea..And wear shawls..

Lambsington - 10-29-2006 at 12:02 PM

Hurry, our under water friends are trying to take over we need to stop them, but how?

Noisemonster - 10-29-2006 at 05:02 PM

We should poison the oceans. So please someone get at least 8923056 tons of something that is toxic for stingrays.

poobs - 10-29-2006 at 05:18 PM

I think I have about that amount of snot flowing out of my nose at the moment..Does snot kill stingrays?

Noisemonster - 10-29-2006 at 05:23 PM

We should try. I'm sure that your snot is more toxic than my snot ;)

JunoRedneck - 10-29-2006 at 05:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by poobs
We should form some kind of anti-stingray world domination committee..We could meet once a week and eat finger sammiches and drink tea..And wear shawls..


as long as they aren't stingray sammiches, then i'm for it. especially the shawls part, because sometimes i get chilly.

Evil - 10-29-2006 at 05:51 PM

and shawls are sexy as fuck