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.
It's just the beginning, before long the gold fish armies that have infiltrated people's homes will know that the time has come for all fish kind to rise up and take over the world leaving us humans as their slaves.
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Xest wrote:It's just the beginning, before long the gold fish armies that have infiltrated people's homes will know that the time has come for all fish kind to rise up and take over the world leaving us humans as their slaves.
you mean my 2 pet fish sharky and rambo gonna jump out of their tank and attack me?
Lievaordiea x Eldritch
Peonchants x Enchanter
Hibernia
Banana wrote:hope they do it on a sunday
would be gutting if they killed me on a friday at the weekend..dont think i could survive eternity knowing that
Thats realy not a problem, as if you die you just go blank and know nothing. There is no heaven or eternity afterwards, you simply just stop beeing.
