STURGEON ENDANGERING FLORIDA BOATERS
07.05.07
Sharp young drunkard Cory sent in this New York Times article that profiles the growing dangers in Florida, where leaping sturgeon are increasingly injuring boaters in America's Wang.
Florida’s season of “sturgeon strikes” — law enforcement’s term for collisions between the state’s largest freshwater fish and hapless boaters — [is] already well under way. It may seem bizarre, but it is no joke. Leaping sturgeon have injured three people on the Suwannee this year, including a woman on a Jet Ski and a girl whose leg was shattered when one of the giant fish jumped aboard her boat. Eight others were hit last year, and with traffic growing on the storied river, sturgeon are joining alligators and hurricanes on the list of things to dread in Florida.
Other things to dread in Florida: transsexual strippers, the University of Miami football team, elections, Jacksonville, and Gators quarterback Tim Tebow. But if 200-pound sturgeon flying through the air are injuring people, then we're going to need Tebow. Because armored jumping fish means we're only a step or two away on the evolutionary ladder from flying sharks. Flying sharks, man. Tebow might be the only human that can save us.

But do they have laser beams?
Re: the pic – I flew one of those in the war.
I'll support anything that puts Tebow closer to death and me closer to making time with the widow Tebow.
Tim Tebow juggles sturgeon…underwater
“sturgeon strikes” — law enforcement’s term for collisions between the state’s largest freshwater fish and hapless boaters.
I always wondered what "profession" English Lit majors went into. ALL of them obviously go into law enforcement. So clever coming up with their fancy "terms"……
You guys are predictably unfunny.
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Other things to dread in Florida: transsexual strippers, the University of Miami Football team, elections, Jacksonville, and Gators quarterback Tim Tebow.
Don't forget The Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
…a girl whose leg was shattered when one…giant…jumped aboard her boat.
She must be related to Joe Theismann.
Can't talk about Tebow without showing his girlfriend's chesticles.
I, for one, welcome our giant, predatory flying fish overlords. May we continue to offer the citizens of Florida for their sacrificial wishes.
Has anyone ever seen Tebow and killer flying sturgeon together at the same time? I'm just asking.
Other things to dread in Florida: Cars with Ontario license plates, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), guys wearing pastel-colored polo shirts with popped collars, the song "Redneck Woman", and (coming soon) Joey Porter's pit bulls.
What NOT to dread in Florida:
Getting stuck in a conversation about a "book".
Not understanding the double entendres and cultural references from locals.
Being the dumbest person in any room in the state.
That there won't be enough tacky looking douchebags for you to look cool by comparison.
Being the only person in the bar with herpes.
You show me video of a sturgeon leaping up to boink a guy in the nads, and I'll laugh. "it's no joke" my ass.
If Florida is America's wang that does make Georgia America's taint correct? That seems about right.
Can I be the first (or perhaps not the first) to request that "America's Wang" be relocated to a more deserving locale? I feel, as an American, that our Wang should be given better options than 80-year-old cougars, state school hookers and that unfunny, in-the-closet, racist White Dade. I'm thinking "America's Wang" could be, say, Brazil? Sure, it's not in the country but I think we all can agree (even us womenfolk) that the greatest country in the world deserves to have its Wang smack-dab in the middle of a hot Brazilian forest…
The spirit of your thoughts, Sarah, is sound. But speaking for myself and probably most other dudes, the problem with your logic is as follows: I love women from Brazil. I do not, however, love any wang other than my own. I am interested in meeting Brazilian women, but have no interest in meeting wang. I think you see my point.
How about this compromise: "Brazil – America's hot, steamy genitals." It's non-gender specific, so everyone wins.
And to be crystal clear, I REALLY love my wang. It's spectacular.
Done–as long as Texas is still America's big, busty rack and the Virgin Islands continue to stay at least a thousand miles away from our nether regions.
Done and done.
Also up for consideration:
Mexico – America's Booty call
Vermont – America's gay, tree-hugging cousin
Canada – America's sexy librarian neighbor (seems boring, but when those glasses come off… )
Mississippi – America's semi-retarded step-child
And, of course…Alaska: America's handsy, sex-starved UncleHawaii: America's long-weekend-getaway leiCalifornia: America's charge-card abusing MILFSouth America: America's neighborhood drug dealer
Last! Thanks Matt.
Maryland: America's…Maryland is in America?!
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." dun-DUN-dun-DUN-dun-DUN …
I've been thinking about this all day and have thus come to the conclusion that fish are indeed foods and not friends.
@ Sarah and WWSM…
All of this would make Indonesia Drew Gooden's patch of hair, right?