tootle tootle tootle.....take THIS!! ARGGHHHHH...
 

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."

Fatal stingray attacks like the one that killed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin last month 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 the stingray flopped onto the boat and stung Bertakis. The women steered the boat to shore and called 911.

Surgeons were able to remove some of the barb, and Bertakis, who also suffered a collapsed lung, underwent surgery late Wednesday and early Thursday, the Miami Herald reported on its web site.

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."

Ps...the 'tootle' sound was the stingray swimming up and out of the water

thats 2 "extraordinarily rare" occurences in a month... Are they attacking? ed:

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lol.

attack of the string rays.

EVERYBODY PANIC!!

[img]http://www.movv.com/out.php/i73_newvas2.jpg[/img]

[quote:0f2a5]I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.

-- President George W. Bush[/quote:0f2a5]



Looks like he was wrong again.

haha you would save that the_finger:

there goes my political career...

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":b8456][quote:b8456]I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.

-- President George W. Bush[/quote:b8456]



Looks like he was wrong again.[/quote:b8456]

happy:

tootle..

I looooooove heidi klum

Re: tootle tootle tootle.....take THIS!! ARGGHHHHH...
 

quite ironic that the last time judas posted was in a thread with a lot of "tootles" in it

lol!

ps: im at the apple store happy: happy:

Re: tootle tootle tootle.....take THIS!! ARGGHHHHH...
 

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":8eb2e]quite ironic that the last time judas posted was in a thread with a lot of "tootles" in it[/quote:8eb2e]

Fuck off and die.