Stingray Jumps to Kill

In non-tech news:

Most of us may remember what happen to the crocodile hunter. He was impaled by a Stingray's barb right through the heart. What makes this recent news event interesting involving another Sting Ray is that it seems as though it was premeditated. Highly unlikely though.

A 75-pound Stingray killed a Michigan woman Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode a boat in the Florida Keys. Judy Kay Zagorski, of Pigeon, Mich., was sitting in the front seat of a boat going 25 mph when the spotted eagle ray, with a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet, leaped out of the water. It was reported that the impact killed Judy as well as the Stingray.

Spotted eagle rays can weigh 500 pounds and have a wingspan of up to 10 feet. They are known to occasionally jump out of the water but are not aggressive and use the venomous barb at the end of their tail for defense. "Rays jump to escape a predator, give birth and shake off parasites," said Lynn Gear, supervisor of fishes and reptiles at Theater of the Sea in Islamorada. "They do not attack people."

Or do they?