Ray slams woman on boat in Florida Keys

 Posted on CNN March 30, 2011

            An eagle ray weighing as much as 300 pounds landed on top of a woman on a boat in the Florida Keys The woman, Jenny Hausch, was on the chartered boat Friday with her husband and three children, taking pictures of a group of eagle rays as they flew out of the water. .Florida Fish and Wildlife Officers Aja Vickers and Bret Swensson were patrolling the water near the tour boat when they heard screams.Klein said the ray kept "slamming and slamming on top of (Hausch), trying to swim away." By the time officers made it to the boat Hausch had freed herself from under the ray.Klein said the animal measured 8-feet across, and probably weighed a good 300 pounds."It's just massive, it has a 10-foot tail," she added.
         After the seriousness of my earlier posts this one is quite a break from the mayhem in the Middle East and Japan. I choose this one because it was quite humorous, especially since no one got hurt. Most of the comments on CNN complained how the ray in the picture could not have weighed 300 ponds. This is most likely because the ray in the picture is not the ray that landed on top of the woman.