Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw

AP/Yahoo ^ | 9/7/08

[martin_fierro]

Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw

Sun Sep 7, 8:26 PM ET

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a fishing tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts.

Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.

"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."

The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.

He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.

"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.

"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.

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[martin_fierro]

I once got a shiner from a sockeye salmon.

[Mr. K]

A Crappie once took a ... oh, nevermind

[Thane_Banquo]

Moose... Sister... etc.

[driftdiver]

Tarpon do it in Florida. People have died from this.

[central_va]

Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw

I hate when that happens.

[nevergore]

Dang...it really knocked the “carp” out of him....

[toast]

When I was a teenager I was hit by a fish while tubing. It gave me a bloody nose. But it didn’t jump. The boat motor kicked it up. I couldn’t tell what type. But I would estimate it weighed about 3 pounds.

[Hoodlum91]

It’s going to be a long Monday!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Holy Mackerel...

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"It’s going to be a long Monday!:

Ha ha ha ha ha....Yes it is...WEIRD STORY...PING!!

[trisham]

If this is a silver asian carp, it's an ugly fish:

[martin_fierro]

[KarlInOhio]

I saw a show on (I think) PBS that had a segment on the asian carp. They drove a boat around the river with some type of electrical device which really agitated the fish and just had hundreds leaping around the boat.

[ThomasThomas]

“flying” Silver Asian carp, Yet another example of foreign fish doing the jobs American fish won’t. Did they check to see if it was legal.

[KosmicKitty]

I do believe that that is the second time today I’ve seen that picture posted on FR.

What are the odds of THAT happening? LOL

[RightWingTeen]

The Dems are saying it is Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin’s fault!! Or they are blaming Halliburton! LOL

[Roccus]

Video

http://moldychum.typepad.com/moldy_chum/2007/06/cnn-reporter-le.html

[trisham]

I saw that too, but I didn’t remember the type of fish it was.

[Centurion2000]

It’s global warming kids. You see the water was so hot from all the CO2 in the air that the fish was just trying to escape and find a cooler place.

[Ignatz]

The Dems are saying it is Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin’s fault!! Or they are blaming Halliburton! LOL

I suspect Arkancide!