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Man Stabbed with Swordfish in Fight
Reuters ^ | 2-22-2002

Posted on 02/22/2002 8:46:35 AM PST by Cagey

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida fisherman was recovering on Friday after being stabbed with the bill of a swordfish during a fight with another man, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Police arrested Frank Ashmus, 46, and Garth Spacek, 42, on Thursday after the two fishermen allegedly started fighting near a dock in Madeira Beach, a small city on Florida's Gulf Coast.

Police said that after Spacek hit Ashmus in the head with a beer bottle and left, Ashmus went to Spacek's apartment and stabbed him in the abdomen with a sharp detached bill of a swordfish.

"We don't see this kind of thing very often," said Pinellas County Sheriff spokeswoman Marianna Pasha.

Both men were drunk, according to police.

Ashmus and Spacek were held without bond on charges of aggravated battery. Spacek was in fair condition, Pasha said.


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To: Doctor Stochastic
This is a whale of a tale. Wonder if this is the first time Spacek has ever been fileted by a fish?
41 posted on 02/22/2002 9:32:26 AM PST by doctor noe
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To: Centurion2000
No mention if the "victim" floundered around on the floor while awaiting medical attention... :-\
42 posted on 02/22/2002 9:32:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: Cagey
"Allegedly" fighting? Uh...does that mean it could have been an accident? (I hate it when that happens...)
43 posted on 02/22/2002 9:33:11 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Cagey
For my friends on the sea and weekend warriors, here's more:

"The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernal of its servant's soul. The old sea; the sea of many years ago, whose servants were devoted slaves and went from youth to age or to a sudden grave without needing to open the book of life, because they could look at eternity reflected on the element that gave the life and dealt the death. Like a beautiful and unscrupulous woman, the sea of the past was glorious in its smiles, irresistible in its anger, capricious, enticing, illogical, irresponsible; a thing to love, a thing to fear. It cast a spell, it gave joy, it lulled gently into boundless faith; then with quick and causeless anger it killed.. But its cruelty was redeemed by the charm of its inscrutible mystery, by the immensity of its promise, by the supreme witchery of its possible favour. Strong men with childlike hearts were faithful to it, were content to live by its grace - to die by its will" --Joseph Conrad, "An Outcast Of the Islands", pg 20 (1896)

44 posted on 02/22/2002 9:33:21 AM PST by HockeyPop
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To: StriperSniper

"We leaned a neat little trick to keep the fish from wiggling. Pour a little rum down their throat and they stop moving immediately. It's makes it easier to take the hook out."

45 posted on 02/22/2002 9:34:04 AM PST by Cagey
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Quit yer carping and being so bullheaded....
46 posted on 02/22/2002 9:34:57 AM PST by tracer
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To: tracer
Spacek should have remembered that the penis mightier than the swordfish.....

The penis mightier?

47 posted on 02/22/2002 9:35:20 AM PST by doctor noe
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To: doctor noe
what is the possession limit on a swordfish anyway?
48 posted on 02/22/2002 9:36:03 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: Cagey
What happened to good traditional sawfish and hammerhead fights?
49 posted on 02/22/2002 9:36:10 AM PST by grasshopper
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To: Cagey
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3767c25f2f0f.htm</a>
50 posted on 02/22/2002 9:37:03 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: Diddle E. Squat
"My mechanic told me that I had blown a seal. I told him to leave my personal life out of this."
51 posted on 02/22/2002 9:37:13 AM PST by asformeandformyhouse
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To: tracer
Too bad that Lloyd Bridges and Jaques Cousteau are too dead to deliver eulogies had they been asked....
52 posted on 02/22/2002 9:37:33 AM PST by tracer
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To: doctor noe
Spacek should have remembered that the penis mightier than the swordfish.....

And I'd guess a little more user friendly.

Or for the Democrats, a WEE bit more user friendly.

53 posted on 02/22/2002 9:38:33 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: MotleyGirl70
Darn didn't work, don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Anyone want to help me out, I want to post a similar link. Having a bit of troubles. The link is on My Profile, a fish related link. Help, help anyone.

54 posted on 02/22/2002 9:38:38 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70
another fish tale
55 posted on 02/22/2002 9:40:51 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: MotleyGirl70
LOL! Fish Rage is everywhere.
56 posted on 02/22/2002 9:41:42 AM PST by Cagey
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To: MotleyGirl70
you just forgot to add this: '">' and then the title you wanted to write(I put 'another fish tale') before the ''
57 posted on 02/22/2002 9:42:44 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: The Chid; snopercod
Use a pun, go to jail. :-)
58 posted on 02/22/2002 9:45:38 AM PST by bootless
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Here's some more funny songs from where I found the 'I lobster and never flounder':

silly songs

59 posted on 02/22/2002 9:45:42 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Right on! How did you do that?
60 posted on 02/22/2002 9:45:57 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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