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Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw
AP/Yahoo ^ | 9/7/08

Posted on 09/08/2008 7:01:26 AM PDT by 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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: asiancarp; carp; environment; fearnofish; fish; fishing; freepun; jaw; weird
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To: martin_fierro

The fish is busy telling his friends about the one that got away.


21 posted on 09/08/2008 8:57:14 AM PDT by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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To: martin_fierro
Talk about a sucker punch.

Ouch!
22 posted on 09/08/2008 9:02:05 AM PDT by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: martin_fierro; dragonblustar; The Spirit Of Allegiance

This can happen if you’re soused to the gills. Or fried.


23 posted on 09/08/2008 9:11:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: martin_fierro

24 posted on 09/08/2008 9:38:08 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: martin_fierro

If fish are flying in to your face, yur using the wrong bait... or maybe not. ;-)


25 posted on 09/08/2008 10:44:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Mencken would puke at the output of most of today’s media “muckrakers”.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Kid will learn to leave off the Axe before fishing.


26 posted on 09/08/2008 10:46:58 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: martin_fierro

This story sounds really fishy to me.


27 posted on 09/08/2008 10:54:47 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Our hockey mom can beat up your community organizer.)
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To: martin_fierro
We've had them up in the Illinois river for a couple years now.

We( well ,I can't hit the broadside of a barn)use bows and arrows on them.

28 posted on 09/08/2008 11:16:03 AM PDT by Cheapskate (Play loudly and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: martin_fierro

You know it’s a weird day when THAT pic gets posted twice....


29 posted on 09/08/2008 7:16:07 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Now here at the Rock we have two rules. Rule #1 obey all rules. Rule #2 no writing on the walls...)
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