A young (not very bright) man was hospitalized after he jumped on a stingray and got pierced in the arm by its barb.
The man was circling the ray on a jet ski close to shore at Moana, Australia a couple weeks ago, antagonizing it and then decided he’d jump on it’s back!
Bad idea… he ended up with a stingray barb in his arm.
He was taken to a nearby hospital by friends.
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Stuff.co.nz has all the gory details of the stingray attack on 11-year-old Laura Bradley.
The attack happened in knee-deep water near Riversdale Beach on the Wairarapa coast on Friday. Laura suffered a deep 4-inch-long wound to her arm and smaller cut to her leg. Slipping into shock and bleeding heavily, she was driven to Riversdale where a rescue helicopter flew her to Wairarapa Hospital.
Laura needed 26 stitches. Ouch.
An 11-year-old girl is recovering in the hospital after being stung by a stingray at New Zealand’s Wairarapa beach.
She was able to get herself back onto the beach where surf life savers treated her injuries until a rescue helicopter arrived.
The girl, who was playing in the water when she was stung, had a nasty laceration to her arm and one of her knees but she was in a stable condition.
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And here’s what happens when a stingray gets pissed…
The woman who was skewered by a stingray while wading at Pohara Beach says she’ll swim in the sea again, but not at Pohara.
Maia Freeman was walking in waist-deep water at the eastern end of the beach when she suddenly felt “a sharp pain almost as bad as childbirth” on her right thigh.
“I tried to step backwards, but I felt it flapping against my leg. I really felt like I was being attacked,” she said. “I screamed at the top of my lungs, threw myself back so I was lying on the water and kicked like mad.
“When I saw all this blood coming out of my leg, I moved into the terror zone. It was so traumatic.”
And Maia wasn’t the only stingray victim in Golden Bay on Tuesday. Apparently, another guy got poked too.
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A 48-year-old woman was flown to the hospital by helicopter after being attacked by a stingray in New Zealand’s Golden Bay.
The rescue copter was called to Pohara Beach shortly before three o’clock this afternoon. At the moment, the barb of the stingray is still imbedded in the woman’s leg.
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A huge stingray washed up on the beach around noon yesterday near Ocean Sound Village.
North Topsail Beach police say the stingray weighed several hundred pounds and town maintenance workers had to use a front end loader to bury it.
Lt. Lee McKnight said it’s the biggest ray he’s seen wash up on the beach in his nine years.
McKnight also reminded us that just last week a shark washed up in the same area as well. Hmmm…
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Electric stingrays have been spotted off the coast of Britain!
The marbled stingray, which can produce a charge of up to 240 volts, normally sticks to the warmer Mediterranean, but one was recently caught by some fisherman. The captive ray was transported to Brighton’s Sea Life centre, where the staff named her Carmen… get it… Carmen Electra.
You can stop laughing now ‘cuz experts are worried that Britain’s coastline could be invaded by packs of hunting electric rays this summer because of global warming.
Shocking.
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A medical examiner has confirmed that the Michigan boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries.
Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, was in the front of a boat going about 24 mph on Thursday when a 75 lb spotted eagle ray leapt from the water and hit her in a freak collision.
Monroe County’s medical examiner, Dr. Michael Hunter, determined that the cause of death was “blunt force” head injury and that the collision with the ray killed her.
His report says she was not stung by the ray.
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A woman was on a boat with her family off Marathon in the Florida Keys when an Eagle Ray jumped out of the water next to the vessel Thursday morning. The animal reportedly struck the 55-year old woman who fell backward and suffered a severe head trauma.
Initial reports had indicated that the animal’s sharp defensive barb, located near the base of its tail, had lodged in the woman’s neck.
The woman, who was from Michigan, died before help could arrive.
