Stingray Uprising?

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So get this, another stingray stabs another guy through the heart, but jumped into the frickin boat to do it!

Stingray Leaps Into Boat, Stabs Man in Chest

LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Florida (Oct. 19) - An 81-year-old man was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped onto his boat and stung him, leaving a foot-long barb in his chest similar to the accident that killed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.

"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."

Fatal stingray attacks like the one that killed Irwin last month at the Great Barrier Reef are rare, marine experts say. Rays reflexively deploy a sharp spine in their tails when frightened, but the venom coating the barb usually causes just a painful sting for humans.

James Bertakis of Lighthouse Point was on the water with his granddaughter and a friend Wednesday when a stingray flopped onto the boat and stung Bertakis. The women steered the boat to shore and called emergency services.

Doctors were able to remove the barb during surgeries Wednesday and Thursday by eventually pulling it through his heart and closing the wound, said Dr. Eugene Costantini at Broward General Medical Center.

He said Bertakis' case was different from Irwin's because the barb stayed in Bertakis' heart and was not pulled out. Videotape of Irwin's last moments shows him pulling the barb from his chest.

Bertakis was apparently trying to remove the three-foot-wide spotted eagle ray from the boat when he was stung, police Cmdr. Mike Oh said.

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."


10/19/06 13:00 EDT
 
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So wait, steve would have lived if he didnt pull the barb out?

no, it said the barb just missed this guy's heart. It sounded like it hit steve pretty square in the heart from what was reported. Paralyzing toxin + heart = bad day at work.
 
no, it said the barb just missed this guy's heart. It sounded like it hit steve pretty square in the heart from what was reported. Paralyzing toxin + heart = bad day at work.

it did hit him in the heart...and the beating of the heart was actually pulling it further in because of the barbs :eek:
 
no, it said the barb just missed this guy's heart. It sounded like it hit steve pretty square in the heart from what was reported. Paralyzing toxin + heart = bad day at work.

And I thought being the only person left without a peice of birthday cake was a bad day at work.
 
You all pissed and moaned about guns and now look at you! Sting rays coming to kill you all and no guns anywhere. I hope you all die of getting barbed. Noobs.

edit: Do you think you can swordfight a Sting Ray if you were holding a Swordfish? I'd like to think that you could.