Dude gets stabbed in the chest by stingray

An 81-year-old man is undergoing surgery this afternoon after he was stabbed in the chest by a stingray that leaped onto his boat while he was sailing on the Intracoastal Waterway, according to Lighthouse Point police.

Bertakis and his family members told police that a spotted eagle ray leaped out of the water and onto their 18-foot boat. When Bertakis tried to lift the stingray out of the boat, it hit him in the chest with its poisonous barbed tail. When rescue workers reached the boat in the 3800 block of Northeast 30th Ave., Bertakis still had the barb lodged in his chest, police said.

The incident comes about 1-1/2 months after Steve Irwin, television's popular Crocodile Hunter, was stabbed in the chest with a poisonous stingray barb while diving with the animals in waters off Australia. He died from the wound after trying to rip the barb from his chest. Article here.