Wtf Is Up With Stingrays?!?!?!?!

[tenacious_b]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=st...sa=N&tab=wn

[elwopo]

I don't know what's going on with these things......but I'm thinking about taking my S&W on fishing trips from now on......

[RedHerring]

They are taking revenge on mankind, run for your lives!

They are going to learn to fly overnight, and emerge from

the sea to take over the world. Jeff Corwin is NEXT!!!

Mark my words!

[ryyannon]

Maybe they're angry about being used as watchstraps....

[Guest aclaimsman]

Maybe they're angry about being used as watchstraps....

[gioarmani]

That is such a fluke it's not even funny. Attacks like this are so rare it's not even worth looking up the statistic; they do happen but until Steve Irwin gave up the ghost, no one in the news gave a [censored]. What that report didn't mention (this guy, not Irwin) is that he was probably in the boat fishing and either hooked one, or at least nicked one with a hook, which caused the ray to naturally flip out and use it's only defense. I was raised in a house on Turtle Beach in Sarasota for 13 years and used to swim through schools of them on a regualr basis. For all intents and purposes, they're completely harmless unless stepped on or attacked; they certaintly don't go randomly flying through the air into people's chests, contrary to the media's sensationalism.