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Posted on 06/12/2007 8:32:58 AM PDT by RDTF
ROCK BLUFF, Fla. — A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on Florida's Suwannee River, officials said.
Tara Spears, 32, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock Bluff, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported.
She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to recover, the agency reported.
The large, prehistoric-looking sturgeon have hard plates along their backs. They can grow up to 8 feet long and up to 200 pounds.
In April, a leaping sturgeon severely injured a 50-year-old woman from St. Petersburg who was riding a personal watercraft on the Suwannee River.
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Did the sturgeon have malpractice insurance?
Leaping sturgeons are the worst sturgeons of them all.
Something fishy about this story.
My guess is that this is just a cover story for another embarassed victim of the “donkey punch.”
“Like a Sturgeon,
Leaping for the very first time”
~Madonna
Jumping fish are quite common, but a Sturgeon, just like my Tarpon, is serious business.
She should have read the sturgeon general warning.
Know what just popped into my mind? How come you don’t hear of Florida Caviar?
The Leaping Sturgeons would be a great name for a rock group.
It was the flying fickle fish of fate.
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