US EditionStingray impales Florida woman’s back, misses lung by centimeters: ‘Super, super painful’
- Kristie O'Brien, an Apollo Beach woman, was impaled in the back by a venomous stingray's spine while wading in knee-deep water at a beach in Ruskin, Florida. The spine missed her lung by centimeters and was more than four inches deep in her back.
- O'Brien remained calm and instructed her husband not to remove the barb from her back. Paramedics used shears to cut the stingray at the base of its tail, and O'Brien was taken to the hospital where the spine was carefully removed. She is currently being treated for poisoning from the stingray's venom.
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Florida woman impaled by stingray while wading at beach: 'Certain that I was going to die'
A Florida woman said she thought she was going to die after she was impaled in the back by a stingray's venomous tail spine while wading at a beach south of Tampa in Ruskin. "I was trying to stay as calm as I could," Kristie O'Brien told FOX 13 this week of the incident at Bahia Beach. "But I was certain that I was going to die because, I mean, like everyone has like this picture of Steve Irwin when he literally was punctured in his chest." Ir…
Florida woman who was pierced by stingray in Tampa speaks out - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports
A woman was stabbed in the back but there was no need for an arrest in this case. While wading in the water, she was caught in a stinging situation when a venomous stingray sunk its barb into her back. “I remember saying, ‘I’m going to black out, I’m about to black,'” Kristie O’Brien said. O’Brien, talked about the stingray strike that sent her to the hospital for at least a week. She was at Bahia Beach in Ruskin, outside Tampa Tuesday as she …
Stingray Impales FL Woman, Gnarly Pics of Venomous Barb Left in Her Back
Steve Irwin's bizarre and tragic manner of death nearly played out again ... this time on a Florida beach where a stingray's venomous spine missed killing a woman by mere inches. Kristie O'Brien was on Apollo Beach, South of Tampa, on Tuesday, and…
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