...and watch out for flying dolphins

[vladimir]

Just when you thought you had every contingency covered, you find out you have to watch out for a dolphin nailing you in the boat!

Leaping Dolphin Knocks Woman Unconscious in Fla.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:50 p.m. ET

EDGEWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A woman was hospitalized in Florida after a dolphin leaped aboard the boat she was in, knocking her unconscious.

The Coast Guard says witnesses called 911 Thursday after seeing the dolphin jump from the Intracoastal Waterway and hit Barbara Howard of Mansfield, Ohio. Howard was sitting in an 18-foot boat with her husband, their daughter and her daughter's boyfriend.

The Howards say the dolphin jumped about six feet high and landed on the bow. They say it slid in their laps and its thrashing tail knocked them to the deck. Their daughter's boyfriend rolled the dolphin back into the water.

Barbara Howard regained consciousness before the Coast Guard reached her at a Edgewater, Fla., boat ramp. She was hospitalized in stable condition.

 

[ZenDiver.3D]

So long and thanks for all the fish.......

 

[vicdiver656]

Haha...I feel sorry for her, but that's a comical occurance!!

 

[NudeDiver]

Do you think the dolphin did that on porpoise?

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Do you think the dolphin did that on porpoise?

I had done so well (no laughing) while reading this thread until I read the above! For shame on me! I'm laughing pretty hard now!

 

[ScubaSteve]

So between dolphins and stingrays, we are not safe on the boat as well? Was it not off the FL coast where the woman died from a Stingray "attack" as it landed on the boat?

 

[Andy077]

So between dolphins and stingrays, we are not safe on the boat as well? Was it not off the FL coast where the woman died from a Stingray "attack" as it landed on the boat?

Yeah, big eagle ray, she took a bad knock on the dome on her way down.

 

[bottomfeeder22]

Do you think the dolphin did that on porpoise?

Laughing with REAL tears! Ah screw it, we're all going to hell! :redhot::redhot::redhot::redhot: