Log in

View Full Version : Stingray leaps into boat, stabs man in chest


Gan
10-19-2006, 09:49 AM
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.

Copyright 2006 Reuters (http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html#Reuters). All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19/stingray.reut/index.html
__________________________

Coincidence??? or.... :thinking:
Skeeter
10-19-2006, 09:55 AM
Stingrays are trying to take over the world. Lets wipe these motherfuckers off the planet.
Sean
10-19-2006, 10:01 AM
The stingrays hate our freedom.
Tromp
10-19-2006, 10:47 AM
Insurgents!!!

Just another pre-election scam by Republicans to show that we need congress that "claim" they are tough on terror.
Back
10-19-2006, 10:56 AM
Insurgents!!!

Just another pre-election scam by Republicans to show that we need congress that "claim" they are tough on terror.

At this point? I honestly would not be surprised if the Republicans spoke out against sting-rays in a desperate attempt to bolster support for this November.

“We need to strike first in the ocean and fight them there so we do not need to fight them at home!”
Gan
10-19-2006, 10:58 AM
^^^

Yea, along with a Democrat seeking federal funds for a stingray sanctuary because they are the real victims here.

:lol:
Tromp
10-19-2006, 11:03 AM
^^^

Yea, along with a Democrat seeking federal funds for a stingray sanctuary because they are the real victims here.

:lol:

They are!

That 83 year old man was in a boat on the Ray's home turf. I don't see Sting Rays driving cars down Route 10 trying to catch people with fishing hooks, do you?

All joking aside that is some f'd up $hiite!
Aaysia
10-19-2006, 11:05 AM
w..t..f... that's freaky.
Hulkein
10-19-2006, 11:20 AM
Hahaha, that sting ray had some ballssssssssss
fallenSaint
10-19-2006, 11:29 AM
Man these things are trying to take the top ranks for most feared sea creatures!
DeV
10-19-2006, 11:32 AM
We need to preemptively shock and awe their asses, imo.
Sean
10-19-2006, 11:35 AM
I'm sure theres already some gun nut minutemen discussing patroling the sea border to keep those stingrays out and off our soil, no need to waste good missles shock and aweing them.
DeV
10-19-2006, 11:39 AM
Ruin my fun why don't you.

Ikan Bakar anyone? None for Sean though.
Stanley Burrell
10-19-2006, 11:49 AM
I'm sure theres already some gun nut minutemen discussing patroling the sea border to keep those stingrays out and off our soil, no need to waste good missles shock and aweing them.

I already commissioned Sean deuce to getsta crackin'.

I hope this rests upon his conscious like a godamn 350+ pound GS-playing park sancter :xmb_orange_rsvd:
Hulkein
10-19-2006, 12:14 PM
Apparently it did hit his heart in the left ventrical and went in deep enough to go through the septum. Pretty crazy.
Atlanteax
10-19-2006, 12:18 PM
The Stingray should be banned for Griefing.
Back
10-19-2006, 12:19 PM
I can see a new movie concept here...

Flying sting-rays on a plane!
fallenSaint
10-19-2006, 12:30 PM
Im telling you these things have been planning this takeover, they just needed a chance to get started. Next thing you know they are going to move into the streets and start laying down some "protection" charges.
Sean of the Thread
10-19-2006, 02:09 PM
I may or may not have just discussed harvesting stingrays for leather.
fallenSaint
10-19-2006, 02:12 PM
I may or may not have just discussed harvesting stingrays for leather.

Do stingray leather boots come with compartments for the stingray spine dagger?
Meges
10-19-2006, 02:16 PM
Very funny thread.

May God bless the sting rays and may they claim their 1000 virgins in paradise for their deeds.


Meges

PS www.us.gov/anti-sting-ray-comission.html (http://www.us.gov/anti-sting-ray-comission.html)





















Opps, just kidding.
Sean
10-19-2006, 02:19 PM
You've got a benz, I've got a busket.
Doyle Hargraves
10-19-2006, 02:29 PM
http://shadowmage.plinkomedia.com/images/Admiral-Ackbar-trap.jpg
fallenSaint
10-19-2006, 02:57 PM
Ok, I chuckled at that pic in relation to the thread.
Gan
10-19-2006, 03:00 PM
:rofl: @ Doyle's pic.

I think we need to find the source of all these rogue stingray's ambushing skill training and take it out. Then we'll go after their insurgent funding and freeze those accounts. Then we'll start up a propeganda war to expose their nature for what it really is, a stingray jihad.
DeV
10-19-2006, 03:06 PM
Our demise is imminent or something like that.