Leaping dolphin gives Fla. boaters cuts, bruises
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:41 pm
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EDGEWATER, Fla. - A woman is recovering in Florida after a dolphin hit her when it leaped aboard the boat she was in.
The Coast Guard says witnesses called 911 Thursday after seeing the dolphin jump from the Intracoastal Waterway and hit Barbara Howard of Mansfield, Ohio. Howard was sitting in an 18-foot boat with her husband, their daughter and their daughter's boyfriend.
The Howards say the dolphin jumped about six feet high and landed on the bow. They say it slid in their laps and its thrashing tail knocked them to the deck. Their daughter's boyfriend rolled the dolphin back into the water.
The husband and wife were treated at a hospital for cuts and bruises and released.
It appears that the global financial crisis has the dolphins on edge. Personally, I wouldn't do anything else to piss them off.