Stingrays Behaving Badly picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 12 image entries
Contest Directions:  [ An 81 year old man boating in Florida was stabbed in the chest by a stingray which burst from the water and attacked the man. ] This comes just one month after Australian naturalist Steve Irwin died as he was stabbed in heart by a stingray. Back then stingrays seemed to have issued "sorry, we didn't know it was Steve" statement, and scientists reported this was one extremely rare accident, as stingrays are known to be naturally friendly and cute creatures. If getting your chest stabbed is considered a friendly guesture, then New York has some of the friendliest neighborhoods in the world. And what scientists are trying to tell us is: stingrays have deadly barbs, but they don't really use them. Sort of like - Paris Hilton has brains, but she doesn't really use them. Or North Korea has nukes. Still friendly, right?
In this contest you are asked to photoshop stingrays behaving badly (meaning causing harm, or threat). Feel free to humanize them - put them in human clothes, or living "human lives" doing bad things humans do.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $20, 2nd place: $12 , 3rd place: $8
Started: 10/20/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 10/22/2006 6:00:00 AM
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| | A stingray apparently leapt aboard a boat off the coast of Florida and ended up stabbing a man in his chest. The man, 81 year old James Bertakis, is listed in critical condition after surgery to remove the barb from the stingray. His granddaughter and one of her friends brought the senior citizen to shore after the bizarre attack. Just a month ago Steve Irwin, the Australian naturalist, was killed when a stingray pierced his own heart while Irwin was filming off the Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. The acting fire chief of Lighthouse Point, Florida, described the attack on Bertakis as very odd. He could not believe that it actually had happened. During surgery, doctors were able to remove the stingray barb from Bertakis' chest. The stingray ended up dying on the boat after the attack. A stingray is a triangular shaped fish with a flat body. It is commonly found in tropical waters. The stingray gets its moniker from the razor sharp barb that is at the end of its strong tail. The barb is coated in a venom that is toxic. A stingray uses its barbed tail when it feels that it has been threatened. |
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