All this family wanted was a relaxing boat ride out on the water and possibly to see some cute, friendly dolphins–none of that happened.
The Frickman family took the boat out with their two kids, Tristan and Courtney, as they sped across the water they spotted a pod of dolphins and then…one jumped in the boat. The dolphin was angry and violent, attacked the family and asking questions later.
Flopping around on the deck of the small boat, the dolphin started hitting the people on board. Dirk Frickman said that the dolphin “hit my wife and knocked her over, and punched my daughter.” In fact, the dolphin didn’t just knock Chrissie over, it broke both of her ankles, a move that I think would make even mobsters cringe (note to self: look into dolphin mob). The dolphin also managed to cut itself up quite a bit — the blood you see in the picture above is the dolphin’s.
Thankfully, everything turned out as well as it could — Dirk Frickman was able to call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Harbor Patrol, which helped him pull the dolphin up to a dock and release it back into the ocean, where it reportedly “swam away with no problem
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