Stingray pierces man's heart

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Sphexi

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Originally posted by: pinion9
Originally posted by: Futher
Weird how a stringray can pierce an 81 year old's heart AND lung and he lives, yet a young, healthy Irwin is almost instantly killed.

Eh, it didn't pierce his heart. Hole in heart = death within minutes.

Plus, Irwin yanked it out, and since it's barbed, it tore the hole in his heart bigger by a LOT, that's what really killed him so quickly. Perhaps if he had left it in he could've been saved, very unlikely, but yanking it out wasn't the best move :(
 

CollectiveUnconscious

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Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Originally posted by: So
2:1 ratio? Those elephants are gonna have to do a hell of a lot better than that! We are zerg!

That's just the elephants. Once their allies join in, we're done for.

-Snakes, poisonous arachnids, poisonous insects, etc. are the guerrilla fighters.
-Elephants, hippos, rhinos, etc. are the armor.
-Lions, tigers, wolves, panthers, etc. are the grunts.
-Sharks, dolphins, whales, etc. are the navy.
-Eagles, falcons, gulls, etc. are the air force (remember The Birds)
-Domesticated animals are the spies (think of all the pets)

We're screwed once they all go crazy and purposively start working together to kill us.

Take an intro animal behavior class and reevaluate your "purposive behavior" statement. The elephants in India are, most likely, going "crazy" because they have long memories and are witnessing the countless poachings of their family.
 

zoiks

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Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Originally posted by: pinion9
What is this world coming to when a man can't even take his grandkids fishing without getting stabbed in the chest?

Stingrays: 2
Humans: 0

I believe your count is a bit off, we got ahead after Irwin died. We're upto atleast 9.

Not really. I go fishing here in the SF bay all the time. During the 7 years or so that I've been into fishing, I've seen drunken assholes simply mutilate any Bat rays that they caught when fishing. They would slice their wings off and remove their stingers and kick their carcasses back from the pier into the water.
 

BooGiMaN

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and to hink that on the super freinds i thought stingray or mantaray was the lamest villian...who would have thunk....
 

JackBurton

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Come on guys, I didn't buy this, "Stingrays are harmless junk." Why would they call them Stingrays? If they were harmless, they would have just called them Rays.