This is seriously fucked up!
10-18-2006, 08:59 PM
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LIGHTHOUSE POINT -- An 81-year-old man is undergoing surgery this afternoon after he was stabbed in the chest by a stingray that leaped onto his boat while he was sailing on the Intracoastal Waterway, according to Lighthouse Point police.
It happened about 1 p.m. Police identified the man as James Bertakis. He is at North Broward Medical Center, but his condition was not immediately available.
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Bertakis and his family members told police that a spotted eagle ray leaped out of the water and onto their 18-foot boat. When Bertakis tried to lift the stingray out of the boat, it hit him in the chest with its poisonous barbed tail.
When rescue workers reached the boat in the 3800 block of Northeast 30th Ave., Bertakis still had the barb lodged in his chest, police said.
The incident comes about 1-1/2 months after Steve Irwin, television's popular Crocodile Hunter, was stabbed in the chest with a poisonous stingray barb while diving with the animals in waters off Australia. He died from the wound after trying to rip the barb from his chest.
It happened about 1 p.m. Police identified the man as James Bertakis. He is at North Broward Medical Center, but his condition was not immediately available.
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Bertakis and his family members told police that a spotted eagle ray leaped out of the water and onto their 18-foot boat. When Bertakis tried to lift the stingray out of the boat, it hit him in the chest with its poisonous barbed tail.
When rescue workers reached the boat in the 3800 block of Northeast 30th Ave., Bertakis still had the barb lodged in his chest, police said.
The incident comes about 1-1/2 months after Steve Irwin, television's popular Crocodile Hunter, was stabbed in the chest with a poisonous stingray barb while diving with the animals in waters off Australia. He died from the wound after trying to rip the barb from his chest.
10-19-2006, 10:32 AM
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We're doomed! It's blatantly clear that stingrays have now developed a taste for humans 
Also, are spotted eagle rays the same thing as stingrays? the article mentions both - I suppose it's unlikely that the poor guy was a victim of 2 freak accidents invloving 2 different rays
Also, are spotted eagle rays the same thing as stingrays? the article mentions both - I suppose it's unlikely that the poor guy was a victim of 2 freak accidents invloving 2 different rays
10-19-2006, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='841533' date='Oct 19 2006, 08:34 AM
i didnt even know rays could jump out of the water, i've seen a good number of them in my life and i have never even seen one break the surface.
me neither!
10-19-2006, 11:28 AM
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they can jump quite high out of the water, but they normally need a springboard or trampoline to get any real height out of it.
10-19-2006, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='841533' date='Oct 19 2006, 11:34 AM
i didnt even know rays could jump out of the water, i've seen a good number of them in my life and i have never even seen one break the surface.
A couple friends and I took a charter out of Biloxi back in June of '02. My friend hooked one and I hooked one. Both resulted in broken lines, of course, but I remember that we actually saw mine. He either jumped or just broke the surface a pretty good distance from the boat, I don't recall which. I may have been slightly drunk at the time.
10-19-2006, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' post='841612' date='Oct 19 2006, 02:09 PM
A couple friends and I took a charter out of Biloxi back in June of '02. My friend hooked one and I hooked one. Both resulted in broken lines, of course, but I remember that we actually saw mine. He either jumped or just broke the surface a pretty good distance from the boat, I don't recall which. I may have been slightly drunk at the time.
well too much of anything will kill you....