Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. -- A Florida man is fighting for his life after a
stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest.

A professor of marine biology at the University of Miami said such attacks
are so "extraordinarily rare" that she's never heard of one like it.

The victim is an 81-year-old man who was boating with his adult
granddaughter and one of her friends. The women were able to steer the boat
back to land and call for help.

Rescuers said surgeons were able to remove some of the foot-long barb but
not all of it. Open-heart surgery may be necessary.

The roughly five-foot wide, 30-pound stingray died on the boat.

While such incidents are said to be rare, TV's "Crocodile Hunter" Steve
Irwin was fatally stabbed by a stingray while swimming with them in
Australia last month.

________________________________
It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of
vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE, D. D. 1860-1954

Lee Bell wrote:
> LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. -- A Florida man is fighting for his life after a
> stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest.
>
> A professor of marine biology at the University of Miami said such attacks
> are so "extraordinarily rare" that she's never heard of one like it.
>
> The victim is an 81-year-old man who was boating with his adult
> granddaughter and one of her friends. The women were able to steer the boat
> back to land and call for help.
>
> Rescuers said surgeons were able to remove some of the foot-long barb but
> not all of it. Open-heart surgery may be necessary.
>
> The roughly five-foot wide, 30-pound stingray died on the boat.
>
> While such incidents are said to be rare, TV's "Crocodile Hunter" Steve
> Irwin was fatally stabbed by a stingray while swimming with them in
> Australia last month.

The sharks are probably welcoming the new villain. Takes some heat off
them. Should we start a pool on when the first movie about killer
stingrays is released?

">
> While such incidents are said to be rare, TV's "Crocodile Hunter" Steve
> Irwin was fatally stabbed by a stingray while swimming with them in
> Australia last month.
>

we are going to need Kevlar bcds

JOF
If you want in on the pool I'll keep your money for you

"longshot" <longshot@aol.com> wrote in message
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> we are going to need Kevlar bcds

As I believe I mentioned on the last topic about this sort of incident,
Kevlar isn't that great against long pointy thing type attacks... An
aluminum breastplate would be effective, but you would also need side
pieces, just in case the strike came under your arms...

Lee Bell wrote:
> LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. -- A Florida man is fighting for his life after a
> stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest.
>
> A professor of marine biology at the University of Miami said such attacks
> are so "extraordinarily rare" that she's never heard of one like it.
>
> The victim is an 81-year-old man who was boating with his adult
> granddaughter and one of her friends. The women were able to steer the boat
> back to land and call for help.
>
> Rescuers said surgeons were able to remove some of the foot-long barb but
> not all of it. Open-heart surgery may be necessary.
>
> The roughly five-foot wide, 30-pound stingray died on the boat.
>
> While such incidents are said to be rare, TV's "Crocodile Hunter" Steve
> Irwin was fatally stabbed by a stingray while swimming with them in
> Australia last month.

I know that ray. It's the same one that buzzed me after the
feedings stopped out there.

"chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message
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>
> "Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:rtMZg.30428$zF5.6066@bignews1.bellsouth.net.. .
>> LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. -- A Florida man is fighting for his life after a
>> stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest.
>>
> (snip)
>
> Too funny. Check out the picture of the villainous ray:
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19...eut/index.html
>
> It's from the other side of the world.

the picture we got of the killer was of a beautiful eagle ray

bad luck but shit happens

chilly wrote:

> "Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:rtMZg.30428$zF5.6066@bignews1.bellsouth.net.. .
>
>>LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. -- A Florida man is fighting for his life after a
>>stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest.
>>
>
> (snip)
>
> Too funny. Check out the picture of the villainous ray:
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19...eut/index.html
>
> It's from the other side of the world.

Hmm... This is beginning to sound like the beginning of
Frank Schaetzing's novel "The Swarm", were nature seems to
rise against man.

Matthias

Then again, last week a lady was run over by a car, and she wasn't even
driving! And the sidewalk is a lot less elevated above the street than an
average boat above the water...

Frank

"GWB" <gwb3483@eatel.net> schreef in bericht
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> The guy wasn't even in the water.
>
> Between flying rays, leaping carp and crawling snakeheads, it ain't
> even safe to go NEAR the water. <G>

dechucka wrote:

> "Lee Bell" <pleebell2@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:rtMZg.30428$zF5.6066@bignews1.bellsouth.net.. .
>
>>LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. -- A Florida man is fighting for his life after a
>>stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest.
>>
>>A professor of marine biology at the University of Miami said such attacks
>>are so "extraordinarily rare" that she's never heard of one like it.
>>
>>The victim is an 81-year-old man who was boating with his adult
>>granddaughter and one of her friends. The women were able to steer the
>>boat back to land and call for help.
>>
>>Rescuers said surgeons were able to remove some of the foot-long barb but
>>not all of it. Open-heart surgery may be necessary.
>>
>>The roughly five-foot wide, 30-pound stingray died on the boat.
>>
>>While such incidents are said to be rare, TV's "Crocodile Hunter" Steve
>>Irwin was fatally stabbed by a stingray while swimming with them in
>>Australia last month.
>>
>>________________________________
>>It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of
>>vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
>>WILLIAM RALPH INGE, D. D. 1860-1954
>
>
> if only he had a gun on him at the time he would have been safe.
>
>
baseball bat or golf club may have been effective also, a gun may have
put a hole in the boat