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Usually stingrays are docile animals, but as we learned through the tragedy of Steve Irwin, they can attack. A Florida woman got impaled in the back by a stingray at Apollo Beach in Florida. The photos are pretty insane!
Kristie O'Brien was on Apollo Beach, South of Tampa, on Tuesday, and when she waded into the water she says she immediately felt a searing sting ... although she didn't know what was causing it.
It wasn't until she turned to walk out of the water that her husband saw the live stingray hanging from Kristie's back with the barb on its tail buried about 4 inches into the skin near her right shoulder blade, just missing her lungs.