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Florida Boater Knocked Unconscious by Leaping Sturgeon
Foxnews.Com ^ | June 12, 2007 | AP

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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1 posted on 06/12/2007 8:32:58 AM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF
"Call a doctor!"
"Do you need a surgeon?"
"No! We already have one! That's the problem! I mean -- what?"
2 posted on 06/12/2007 8:35:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: RDTF

Did the sturgeon have malpractice insurance?


3 posted on 06/12/2007 8:35:54 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: RDTF

Leaping sturgeons are the worst sturgeons of them all.


4 posted on 06/12/2007 8:36:09 AM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: RDTF

Something fishy about this story.


5 posted on 06/12/2007 8:36:17 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: RDTF

My guess is that this is just a cover story for another embarassed victim of the “donkey punch.”


6 posted on 06/12/2007 8:37:01 AM PDT by paddles
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Like a Sturgeon,
Leaping for the very first time”

~Madonna


7 posted on 06/12/2007 8:37:12 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Don't mistake timid driving for defensive driving.)
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8 posted on 06/12/2007 8:37:14 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: RDTF
I was wade fishing off Rollover Pass, East of Galveston when a large Tarpon jumped in front of me just inches from my face. It looked like a shinny Greyhound bus had zoomed past me.

Jumping fish are quite common, but a Sturgeon, just like my Tarpon, is serious business.

9 posted on 06/12/2007 8:40:18 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: sheik yerbouty
"Did the sturgeon have malpractice insurance?"

She should have read the sturgeon general warning.

10 posted on 06/12/2007 8:40:25 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

Know what just popped into my mind? How come you don’t hear of Florida Caviar?


11 posted on 06/12/2007 8:40:27 AM PDT by dangus (Mr. President, "Choke on it b!+ch" is not a very good campaign slogan for your amnesty.)
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To: RDTF

The Leaping Sturgeons would be a great name for a rock group.


12 posted on 06/12/2007 8:42:11 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: RDTF

It was the flying fickle fish of fate.


13 posted on 06/12/2007 8:43:02 AM PDT by BigFinn (“I don't do carrots.” -- John Bolton)
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