Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Take that you evil Jet Skier!

It's pretty obvious that the Sturgeons are figuring out how to fight back:

WILDWOOD, Florida (AP) -- A man riding a personal watercraft was injured after a 4-foot-long sturgeon jumped out of the water and hit him, wildlife officials said.

Blake Nicholas Fessenden, 23, was heading north on the Suwannee River on Sunday when he was hit and fell off the craft, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Fessenden was knocked unconscious.

His girlfriend was riding another watercraft behind him and was able to get to Fessenden and hold his head above water before passengers on another vessel arrived to pull him from the water, officials said.


Seriously, I'm glad he wasn't seriously injured and at least he'll have a life time of stories about the time the fish tried to kill him...

:-)

3 comments:

Scott G said...

We had some kind of jumping fish in the rivers north of here that were hitting boaters. I think that is hilarious.

Cyberseaer said...

That'll learn that Jet Skier. How dare he try and have fun in the water. I will type to Congress to write a bill to make being attacked by fish a felony with harsh penalites attached to it. Attached to that bill should be a line that people in NJ don't have to pay income taxes ever and be a ward of the US government. I do this to make more laws to confuse people and make us safer against terrorist fish. Hopefully the troops will find and eliminate terrorist fish in Iraq to make that country more staple so that the people of Iraq can make laws such as the one I propose to make them safer. God Bless all!! (Insert music bed here)

Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny) said...

I think that it's Nature's way of practicing survival of the fittest.

If I were there, I'd be rooting for the sturgeon, a noble, ancient species...

Jet Skiers I can do without.