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A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
“It’s just as freakish of an accident as I have heard,” said Jorge Pino of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “The chances of this occurring are so remote that most of us are completely astonished that this happened.”
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The accident happened off the coast of Marathon Key, in the Florida Keys about an hour’s drive south of Miami. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was taken to the Mariner Hospital in Tavernier, where she was pronounced dead.
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The spotted eagle ray weighed about 75 pounds, said Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Found by MJ Hopper.
That has to be just about the worst luck ever.
Stingrays are rapidly shifting toward the top of my Evil List.
her god sure had a sense of humor
Goes to show, when your numbers up it’s up.
My condolences to her family.
To be clear, she wasn’t killed by the stingray. She was killed when she hit her head trying to get away from it.
As the world population increases, so do the chances of such strange freak deaths.
I’ve seen (and heard of) some bad accidents while fishing (sharks), but this is freakier than being struck by lightning.
There’s not even a cell on an actuarial spreadsheet for accidents as weird as this.
Something is really fishy here.
What a sad way to die.
It appears the stingray isn’t doing so well either.
Surely global warming is to blame for pissing off so many stingrays.
How long before a Hollywood movie about killer stingrays? “Barb!”
I wonder if the family gets to keep the stingray?
I’ve read somewhere that if the probablity of an event occuring is greater than zero, it will happen sooner or later. I think that just about sums up this accident.
By the end of the day, the Democrats and their allies in the media will be blaming this on President Bush.
This is all Bush’s fault.
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Stingrays are actually quite gentle. In Tahiti, you can go out swimming with them and feed them by hand. As long you do not do something stupid like grab their tail, they are quite pleasant.
She is now having a conversation with Steve Irwin about danger danger danger.
Some of your comments are so rude and heartless. I’d love to see if you could find any humor in this tragedy if it was one of your loved ones!!!!