We don't have a separate category for wacky animal stories?
| We do, it's this one. AoS. |
LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. — An 81-year-old boater was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped onto his boat and stabbed him, leaving a foot-long barb in his chest, authorities said.
"It was a freak accident," said Lighthouse Point acting fire Chief David Donzella. "It's very odd that the thing jumped out of the water and stung him. We still can't believe it."
| I don't believe it either. I bet it jumped out of his hands after he pulled it into his boat, and as he rassled with it it stung him. |
Ellen Pikitch, a professor of marine biology and fisheries at the University of Miami, who has been studying stingrays for decades, said they are generally docile. "Something like this is really, really extraordinarily rare," she said. "Even when they are under duress, they don't usually attack."
More at the link, and even more here. Old man's alive, for now.
First Steve Irwin, now some random old guy. What next? Stingrays with little suicide belts? Is the TSA even screening for stingrays? If they did, would that be racial profiling? |