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  1. 10-19-2006, 10:01 AM #1
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    Stingray stabs man in chest

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19/sti...eut/index.html

    Stingray leaps into boat, stabs man in chest
    POSTED: 10:33 a.m. EDT, October 19, 2006


    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.
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    What the hell it's like stingrays are stiking back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gsxxr
    What the hell it's like stingrays are stiking back.
    The same thing went through my head. Instead of birds attacking it's stingrays.
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  5. 10-19-2006, 10:07 AM #5
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    the stingrays are pissssed.

    First Irwin now this dude!

    We used to catch the turtle-nose stingrays when I was fishing this summer, those things have wicked stinger some were well over a foot long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlos_E
    The same thing went through my head. Instead of birds attacking it's stingrays.

    Look out flying ninja stingray.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlos_E
    The same thing went through my head. Instead of birds attacking it's stingrays.
    I saw that on the news this morning...it's strange, but I wonder if all of a sudden we start hearing about these attacks because of what happened to Steve? I mean I never hear about shark attacks anymore, but if a child is nearly eaten alive by one, it's all over the news....than eventually it fades away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GUnit33
    I saw that on the news this morning...it's strange, but I wonder if all of a sudden we start hearing about these attacks because of what happened to Steve? I mean I never hear about shark attacks anymore, but if a child is nearly eaten alive by one, it's all over the news....than eventually it fades away.
    Try but shark attacks you her about every now and then. Other then Steve you never heard any thing like this.
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    I saw this earlier..Weird..The thing jumped right on his boat and stung him..I hope hes ok
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    hmmmm perhaps the sting rays are really semi intelligent life forms and now that they know how to kill us they will continue until we are wiped out?
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    Go to http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19/sti...eut/index.html and click on the video link.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RuhlFreak55
    hmmmm perhaps the sting rays are really semi intelligent life forms and now that they know how to kill us they will continue until we are wiped out?
    I wonder how they taste. Stick a stingray on a rotisserie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlos_E
    I wonder how they taste. Stick a stingray on a rotisserie.

    yea really man. im starting to feel some animosity towards stingrays...

    maybe i should start eating stingray meat instead of egg whites
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlos_E
    I wonder how they taste. Stick a stingray on a rotisserie.
    They are actualy pretty good....they have a simaler texture to shark not flaky like most fish....
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    no not stinkrays you're think of things like skates, stingrays are all fat lmost a gelatin like texture you would wanna eat that
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    Quote Originally Posted by AnabolicAndre
    no not stinkrays you're think of things like skates, stingrays are all fat lmost a gelatin like texture you would wanna eat that
    I have never eatin a eagle ray wich is what got this guy I belive just the native stingrays to the texas coast and they are good eating when cooked properly....There wings are solid meat...

    What is a stinkray??
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    thats crazy
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    i cant see the video, does it actually show the flying fish attack,
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    The Stingrays are angry. We have disturbed their world, and they will enact a terrible revenge upon us all. No one is safe...
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    Quote Originally Posted by donniebrasco
    i cant see the video, does it actually show the flying fish attack,
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    If it's the same clip I saw on CNN this morning. They show film of the ray on a boat and a doctor talking about the condition of the man attacked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AnabolicAndre
    no not stinkrays you're think of things like skates, stingrays are all fat lmost a gelatin like texture you would wanna eat that

    Yeah, Skates taste great!!!
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    That sting ray was fuggin ugly.
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    man after steve everyone was like "These are passive animals"

    Bullshit An animal jumping on a boat and tryin to kill a man doesnt seem passive to me
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    I saw a follow up report on CNN. The sting ray jumped onto the boat. The man was picking it up to throw it back in the water when he was stung. It wasn't a *flying sting ray attack manuever.*
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