TheStar.com - Stingray jumps onto boat, stabs man in heart: "LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. (AP) — An 81-year-old man was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped into his boat and stung him in the chest with a 30-centimetre-long barb that penetrated his heart similar to the accident that killed 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin.

'It was a freak accident,' said David Donzella, Lighthouse Point's acting fire chief. 'It's very odd that the thing jumped out of the water and stung him. We still can't believe it.'"