Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Dies...

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Postby Stasswardo » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:09 pm

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Postby Stasswardo » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:33 am

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Postby Hitman » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:16 pm

Stingray leaps on boat, stabs man in chest
October 19, 2006 - 11:09AM

An 81-year-old man is in critical condition after a bizarre attack by a stingray, which leapt out of the water into a boat and stung him in the chest.

Its poisonous stinger - nearly four centimetres long - lodged close to his heart in an incident similar to the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.

Fire Department officials at Lighthouse Point, about 50 kilometres north of Miami in the US, said James Bertakis was in a small recreational boat with two grandchildren yesterday when the spotted eagle ray leapt aboard and struck him.

"It's just a real freak thing," said Lieutenant Mike Sullivan, saying the incident occurred on Florida's Intercoastal Waterway, where stingrays are rarely seen leaping in the air.

Mr Bertakis was undergoing surgery at a local hospital to have the stinger removed from his chest.

A spokeswoman at the hospital said: "His condition is critical. He's in surgery.''

Crocodile Hunter Irwin, 44, died when a stingray's barb punctured his heart off Australia's north coast last month.

It is one of only a handful of stingray fatalities on record.

A Lighthouse Point fire spokesman, Acting Chief David Donzella, told the Miami Herald the stingray was at least one metre wide.

"This certainly doesn't happen very often," he said. "It's very odd that the thing jumped out of the water and stung him on the boat."

He said when medical crews reached Mr Bertakis, the barb was still in his chest and he was in severe pain because of the toxins in the barb.

He was taken to a local medical centre with a collapsed lung and a closed chest wound, the paper said.

"He's in pretty bad shape right now," Mr Donzella said.

The stingray was being kept in a garbage bag at the fire station.



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Postby Chantel » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:54 pm

White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. - Sylvia Plath
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Postby Hitman » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:00 pm

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RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEEEEEE HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS..........

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Postby Stasswardo » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:42 pm

The stingray was being kept in a garbage bag at the fire station.



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Postby Chantel » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:57 pm

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