Posted on 02/22/2002 8:46:35 AM PST by Cagey
MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida fisherman was recovering on Friday after being stabbed with the bill of a swordfish during a fight with another man, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Police arrested Frank Ashmus, 46, and Garth Spacek, 42, on Thursday after the two fishermen allegedly started fighting near a dock in Madeira Beach, a small city on Florida's Gulf Coast.
Police said that after Spacek hit Ashmus in the head with a beer bottle and left, Ashmus went to Spacek's apartment and stabbed him in the abdomen with a sharp detached bill of a swordfish.
"We don't see this kind of thing very often," said Pinellas County Sheriff spokeswoman Marianna Pasha.
Both men were drunk, according to police.
Ashmus and Spacek were held without bond on charges of aggravated battery. Spacek was in fair condition, Pasha said.
Spacek should have remembered that the pen is mightier than the swordfish.....
37 posted on 2/22/02 10:29 AM Pacific by tracer
LOL!! As you can see, you have misquoted me!! %)
Some things are better left unsaid. Put yourself in the penalty box for a major.
Now, if only they would close the boat show loophole.
Silly, it was a Stingray.
I taped that one off the Dr. Demento show a dozen years ago. Can't remember offhand who performed it.
That's right - thanks. I couldn't pull his name up to save my life.
Will the gentlemen now dedicate his life to hunting down the Great Swordfish?
If I had a haddock,I'd take some calomel.
I'd walk a mile for a calomel.
Marx Bros.
Wouldn't these guys be better off beating their swordfish swords into Enron shares?
By the end of the week-end, airport security guards will be on the look-out for sword fish bills.
Red Drum Rising
Reno was a bull shark
And known from shore to shore
The only fish in all the sea
Who knew what napalm is for
She had quite a reputation
For crash and sink attacks
-Was considered wholly Sole-less
-Scared even great Humpbacks
She'd been known to lock down Triggerfish
As harmless as they could be
She thought she was the empress
Of the reef community
She overlooked the bottomfeeder
So deep in the Yellowfins' pockets
Selling secrets of the United Skates
From nuclear tech to rockets
She overlooked the Albagore
Who took the Monkfish bread
And accepted his reply as Gospel:
"I'm not a Snook!" he said
With glee the United Skates
Saw her leave her disgraced post
T'was a day of celebration
Up and down the coast
But bullsharks never sail away
They never retire, or sleep or yawn
She'll be back with all her minions
Her followers- the Prawns
She thought that just for the Halibut
She'd join the Kingfish race
As the Democrat contender
She would show her toothy face
So with her Red Drum calling
She called out her Parrotfish in the press
To carry water for her campaign
While she swam out to press the flesh
If she could only sink her teeth in
Call out the Florida National Guard
And then send out the Swordfish
She could play her fiery cards
But no, that was no option
She was not in power yet
She could hope that Jeb would Flounder
But he was still not in her net
But one day when she was perusing
The Eelville Evening Post
She saw an ad that had for sale
Something she wanted most
"A custom-made saltwater shark tank"
Why, that sounded good to her!
She could ride it right to Tallahassee
And crush that Bushy cur!
But you can see she's quite deluded
Even to this day
She got her flashy shark tank
And behind the glass she'll stay.
The Tampa Bay Aquarium
Now houses that old shark
She rules only supporting Octopussies ...
...In A fishy amusement park.
piasa
As to the actual incident a beer bottle is not particlarly a good method of parrying the lunge and as this story proves pointedly.
Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown
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