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10 Stingrays Slain Since Irwin's Death
Forbes.com & AP ^ | September 12, 2006 | MERAIAH FOLEY

Posted on 09/12/2006 4:07:20 AM PDT by cartan

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To: Hoplite
I'm surprised your pic link wasn't an SUV!!! LOL!!!
21 posted on 09/12/2006 4:44:41 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: marvlus
It doesn't take much for people to be stupid.

Or perhaps this is about the same number that have always been killed (for food or sport) but it wasn't sufficient human-bashing news until after Irwin bought the croc farm.

22 posted on 09/12/2006 4:44:47 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Riley

Not when there Goliath Groupers who can do the same thing!


23 posted on 09/12/2006 4:44:55 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: cartan

It all started when the Stingrays converted to Islam.


24 posted on 09/12/2006 4:44:56 AM PDT by montag813
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To: cartan

There are times when surf fishing that all I catch are rays. If I don't kill them getting the hook out I grab them by the tail and test their aerodynamic properties as I reintroduce them to their natural environment.


25 posted on 09/12/2006 4:45:06 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: Tim Slagle

Mosquitoes before cockroaches?


26 posted on 09/12/2006 4:45:58 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: cartan

Fishial profiling is wrong.


27 posted on 09/12/2006 4:47:00 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (What I do (sin) is proof of what I am (sinful).)
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To: All

should read "there *are* Goliath Groupers"


28 posted on 09/12/2006 4:47:07 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: OldFriend

They grow a new one - in fact, there is always another growing behind the one they may have to "use" or they may shed it some other way.


29 posted on 09/12/2006 4:48:56 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rte66
Bay Scallops are skate wings. They are punched out in a scallop shape. Ocean scallops are the real thing. They are much larger. I worked seafood in a few supermarkets through the years.
30 posted on 09/12/2006 4:50:01 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (12th district Freeper.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Seriesly? Aaarrgghh - ack, ick. I don't want to know that. Ugh!


31 posted on 09/12/2006 4:51:34 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: cartan

"Oh, the humanity!"
32 posted on 09/12/2006 4:51:52 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup ("Is it real? Or is it Reuters?")
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To: Rte66
Thanks for the info. Too bad some have taken to killing these creatures. After all, it isn't as if the stingray was out of it's element and attacked on land.

Somehow this does not seem the proper way to honor Irwin.

33 posted on 09/12/2006 4:52:13 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: OldFriend

It's not. He'd go into hand-to-hand combat with one of those ray-killers, for sure.


34 posted on 09/12/2006 4:55:08 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

"If I don't kill them getting the hook out I grab them by the tail and test their aerodynamic properties as I reintroduce them to their natural environment."

We would bring them to shore, hold their rays down by any means and just cut the line. They are very sturdy and can take quite a bit of abuse. Their faces are so spooky!


35 posted on 09/12/2006 4:59:43 AM PDT by poobear (Political Left, continually accusing their foes of what THEY themselves do every day.)
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To: cartan

Of course, hundreds of thousands have been slain before Irwin's death. But then, THAT wouldn't make a good story...


36 posted on 09/12/2006 5:03:56 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Riley

Ten dead rays is a rampage? Come on. This isn't a Green Peace site.


37 posted on 09/12/2006 5:05:15 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: marvlus
It doesn't take much for people to be stupid.

Even here on FR........

38 posted on 09/12/2006 5:05:20 AM PDT by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Attacked? I think you're reading way too much into the posting. Way too much ..


39 posted on 09/12/2006 5:06:06 AM PDT by mcg2000 (New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad against The Red Cross.)
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To: cartan

I am willing to bet some folks are just out to make some gore money off the tails by selling them as the one that killed Steve,and I suppose there are by now some listed on Ebay.


40 posted on 09/12/2006 5:07:16 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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