This is weird:

Leaping Dolphin Gives Fla. Boaters cuts, bruises (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_fe_st/odd_leaping_dolphin)

This is one the weirder things I've seen recently. A family of three on a eighteen foot boat, as well as the family's daughter's boyfriend, were apparently injured when a dolphin jumped into the boat and injured them as it thrashed about :eek:.

EDGEWATER, Fla. - A woman is recovering in Florida after a dolphin hit her when it leaped aboard the boat she was in.

The Coast Guard says witnesses called 911 Thursday after seeing the dolphin jump from the Intracoastal Waterway and hit Barbara Howard of Mansfield, Ohio. Howard was sitting in an 18-foot boat with her husband, their daughter and their daughter's boyfriend.

The Howards say the dolphin jumped about six feet high and landed on the bow. They say it slid in their laps and its thrashing tail knocked them to the deck. Their daughter's boyfriend rolled the dolphin back into the water.

The husband and wife were treated at a hospital for cuts and bruises and released.

A young man was fishing in a tournament this year and a blue marlin leaped over the boat, spearing him in the chest and almost killing him.

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11441/blue-marlin-spears-fisherman/

Guess that make fishing a "contact" sport!

Add that to the sting ray that flew up onto a boat a while ago and stabbed one of the men on the boat with his tail.

I can see it now on cable: When Marine Animals Attack!

those sure paint funny pictures.
I guess I will stick to pickerel and pike fishing.
at least I am bigger than they are.
except a pike once caught and on land
bit into Don's finger and it wouldn't let go even
with Dom and I beating on its head with a big stick.
Took a while to make it let go.

Poor dolphin. It was probably pretty confused and panicked when it found itself on a boat.

Oh, and if I were that pike, I would have bitten your friend too. Poor fishie.

Maybe it wanted to beach itself, and this was the next best thing?

Something similar to this happened to my uncle and his ex-wife. They were out on their boat, and a barracuda jumped out of the water. It hit the dashboard, and broke off the key in the ignition. The coastguard had to come out and tow them back to shore. There was a small news story about it.