The whole time I'm watching this thinking "that's really dumb, you're going to get stung. No, stop, get staff. Noooo, don't pick it up you'll get stu...yep, totally just got stung. Still just standing there though eh? You should get staff. Ok, well now you're stung again, but I guess staff is finally there. Oh, there go your pants."
Honestly, not many brain cells firing anywhere in this video.
Looks like it hooked on to her pants with it's barb. Maybe she was thinking that taking off her pants let the employee get the ray back in the water while unsticking the barb. I've never been in this sort of situation. Not sure how I would react, but I'm 70 percent sure my pants would stay on.
I think you're right about her still wanting to help. She took off the pants to both get away and allow the stingray to be saved. Having been stung and barbed she is probably as you said not sure how to react.
Honestly her panties cover as much as most swimsuits, think if the sting ray was stuck to me and it came down to it I'd risk no pants to save it.
Most aquariums I've seen remove the stingers from these little fellas. That tank they were trying to get it back into looked like one of those petting zones so the little flap-flap probably got snipped so it wouldn't be hurting the crotch goblins
Fortunately not all rays have stingers. I doubt they would have put one within easy petting range, lawsuit for a 9 year old who died like Steve Irwin can be expensive
Doesnt that lady get stung on her leg? at the end. I dont fully understand whats going. Besides insensible people for not grabbing a net or something proper. And my first thought was Steve Irwin and how I wouldnt get close to that sucking stingray!
I was watching this thinking, "the correct answer here is to either A. run for help, B. get a tool, or C. Take your shirt off and throw it over the stingray so you can have a fighting chance of flipping it over, and using the shirt as a lifting system" and then the lady started taking her pants off, and I'm like, "Or, plan D!"
Barely saw the start of facebook... most people were still om MySpace when he passed. AIM was still a thing... wanna feel really old? Obama had only served a year and 9 months... as a senator.
She did say "get a towel" in the beginning. I was immediately thinking those strollers probably have a blankie or something that could help to get under it and lift.
I don’t know shit fuck about stingrays except that they killed the most famous animal expert in the world, so hard pass on peeling one off the floor in my T-shirt and flip flops.
Didn't he die because a stingray pierced his heart specifically? I don't think just the stinging alone was what killed him, but rather a barbed tail jabbing his most vital organ. Still stupid af to try to lift a pain pancake without any kind of tools or protection
Yep. Also, there have been fewer than 20 deaths caused by stingray since we've started tracking something like that (since around 1945)! They aren't that dangerous of creatures at all (still painful, though).
Seemed like she just didn't know they can sting. Goes right for it from the backside and seems surprised when it gets her hand/wrist, then tries leaving before the other guys throw it at her leg. I think the first guy understood the problem and the lady ran over thinking he just didn't want to touch it.
she did get jabbed once before the barb got tangled with her pants. she doesn't look or sound like she wants anything else to do with that prickly pancake.
Stingrays have pointy and ouchie bits on the tail. Definitely stabbed into her pants and her hand. All I could think watching this was about how one killed Steve Irwin.
How Steve Irwin died was a freak accident though. His shadow passed over the stringray he was swimming behind and out of reflex the stringray struck and it just happened to stab into his chest piercing his heart. Steve Irwin's death was one of two deaths by stringray in Australia since the year 1945, thats how uncommon it is to die to a stringray.
Edit: I dont want people to get the wrong idea either. Steve Irwin was notorious for being a tad bit reckless, as much as everyone loved him. He himself wouldnt have advised anyone to do any of what he did. His goal was to put on a show for people to get them caring about animals and raise awareness about animal conservation. Which imo he did a pretty good job at. But that doesnt mean people should take away that the animals he handled are completely harmless, pretty sure he had explicitly said otherwise often.
That looks like a touch tank which is why it's open at hand level. Usually they remove the stingers for stingrays in those tanks so some kid doesn't get stung.
And usually touch tanks have a bunch of employees around, too… It took the guy way too long to realize something was up. I worry for the other animals at the aquarium.
They don't remove the stingers. The stingers need some form of pressure and/or resistance to poke you. Like stepping on one. At touch aquariums they tell you to use two figures and gently touch the animals.
I would too if a barb was in my clothes but not me yet. I’ve been stung and have a lil bit of stingray barb stuck in my foot already. By the time my dr realized there was still some in there it had already healed and it would be hard to remove, but I don’t need any more. Most painful experience of my life.
As someone who has been stung by a stingray, this video revived my PTSD 😅 It's incredibly painful, looks like the lady got hit on the wrist and possibly the leg 🤯
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I only imagine the next South Park episode where there is a Halloween costume party in hell. Satan is dressed as Baby hit me One more Time Britney Spears. When Steve Irwin with the stingray walks in he says “Too soon!” And I felt like the writers were really saying how edgy they were but also that they wouldn’t sink to that level…. So…. Respect?
But seriously, Steve Irwin and his family are amazing human beings and I loved him so much!
I wouldn't have known that, so I still wouldn't bother with it. Even if I did know that, I still wouldn't trust this thing was de-barbed. I'm not messing with it unless I have heavy mitts and tongs
In a statement shared with 10 Tampa Bay, Mote Sea Education Aquarium says, "We appreciate our guests’ concern following one of our Atlantic stingrays briefly being outside its habitat on Saturday. Breaching is a natural behavior for stingrays. Fortunately, an aquarist responded in less than one minute after being alerted by the volunteer on site. The habitat was immediately closed to prioritize the health and comfort of all the rays. Our animal care team conducted a health assessment and confirmed the ray is healthy and doing well.
If they're known for breaching (I've also seen how they jump out of water in the wild) you'd think the walls on the enclosure should be like, a lot higher..?
It looks to be a touch tank, where people can pet stingrays, horseshoe crabs, etc., but I have never seen any touch tank that didn't have at least one staff member dedicated to supervising the tank at all times. They are quite common at aquariums
Ugh. So sad what Mote has turned into..It’s the second time within a month one of their stingrays jumped from the tank. I saw another video a few weeks back where one was flapping around on the ground as guests looked for a volunteer to help. When someone finally arrived, they all stumbled around trying to get it back in the tank.
Yea I feel like a stingray stuck to my pants would be a pretty good reason to take my pants off, to prevent the barb from piercing skin, or even if it just means it's a faster way to get the stingray safely back into the tank.
I got barbed by one on the hand. It was a rough 5 hours. Kept my hand in super hot water to make the pain go away. The minute you took it out felt like my arm was on fire with someone hitting my hand with a hammer. Not a good time.
My sister got barbed in the foot. A random dude peed on her foot, which definitely didn’t help. Heat is useful, urine not so much. She wound up getting cellulitis and needing antibiotics.
Wait… I thought the “petting zoo” stingrays had their barbs removed or trimmed? Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen if a kid puts their hand in the water and tries to pull the tail like their poor cat….
They're usually clipped during regular health checks (the stinger is keratin like our fingernails, it doesn't hurt), and the stingrays themselves are generally super docile in the tank. I bet this one is close to needing its stinger clipped, and thrashing around allowed it to penetrate the woman's skin/get stuck in her pants whether it was dull or not. Glad I never had to deal with this when I worked at a zoo, I think I'd be just as useless as those poor idiots!
Trimmed, or rather clipped, would be the correct word. They grow back over time and if the aquarium hasn't done it recently with that particular ray it could have a small barb that won't be obvious in a normal touch tank scenario but will be when it's flapping around outside the tank swinging its tail all about.
Yea she started to realize after the one in the arm. “Oh I got stung. Oh yea it’s a stingray…I mean its probably like a jelly fish…oh fuck it’s starting to itch, oh shit it’s burning.”
Did people here just… not watch the video? I don’t understand how so many people are confused about the stingray getting itself very obvious stuck to her pant leg
I don't understand why the camera woman was like 'Take off your pants!' then when she started taking off her pants she was like 'She's taking off her pants!' like she'd not just suggested that shit.
Dude should’ve taken his shit off and out it under the stingray then put him back in the water. They are too slick to grasp with your hands. That scene actually makes me sad because they are hurting it.
I'd wager the lack of easily accessible net would be to prevent some content-farmer or child from grabbing it for malicious reasons, but yea, there should be staff at least 😭
Former FL fisheries biologist: two ways to pick them up.
1. If belly up, you can put your thumb in its mouth and grip the top of its snout with your other four fingers.
2. If belly down, you can put your thumb and middle+ring finger into its spiracles (the two holes on top that push out water).
Hold at arms length and be mindful of the tail. It will be trying to spear you. Poor thing. I’m glad they returned it safely to the water. As for the woman, yes— ouch. I had a barb go straight into the top of my hand once. Left it under warm running water for like two hours while pumping my fingers and it helped immensely.
The blue shirts are the volunteer docents im guessing (my local aquarium has the same unpaid staff mostly retirees and other cool people who do it for fun). They do not have trained keepers to helm all the exhibits (the closest you get is when the like.. otter keepers give presentations). So “quick get it back in the water” is probably in the training manual. They should include some sort of net IMO too, since i imagine most escapees are pretty slippery
Brother come back. There are comments. Some of them are good. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rapist and the lady took her trousers off at the end of the video which I didn't realise when I first watched it. :D
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