Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Nature Vs Man = Draw

This was one of those freak accidents---except this probably had a bajamillizillion to one odds of actually happening.

A woman, going at 25mph on her speedboat in Florida, was hit in the face by a 75 pound stingray that happened to jump out of the water. I mean imagine that things that have to be going right (or wrong) for that to statistically happen:

1) She needed to be at the exact spot in the boat where she was.
2) She needed to be at some threshold velocity.
3) Of all the routes and lanes to take in the wide open sea, she happened to be on that particular course.
4) The stingray had to jump at that exact time and height.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g7HuSme7Ygm9b_e6QvESOHaEvi7AD8VI24F80

That just plain sucks. Pasted below are pictures of the aftermath.


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