“Say honey – what say we go someplace where big, stupid fish jump way out of the water – and do what we can to make them jump higher. Sounds fun, right?”

Ouch. That, my friends is a broken jaw. And maybe the end of a relationship.

Ouch. That, my friends is a broken jaw. And maybe the end of a relationship.

What you see is a woman’s jaw being broken by a flying asian carp, and since this whole thing was her fiance’s idea, the Underground’s Relationship Counseling Division senses trouble.

The flying carp victim – a woman named Jodi Barnes – now has her jaw wired shut for the next four weeks, and we’re tempted to feel really sorry for her… until we read the following quote from fiance (and TV hunter) Chris Brackett:

“We were going really slow because that seems to get them to jump really high,” Brackett said. “Jodi had shot at one and was leaning forward to reel in her arrow when another fish came out of nowhere to her right and then hit her in the jaw.”

Oh. You wanted them to jump real high out of the water.

Turns out Mr. Brackett sells videos of his bow & arrow carp wingshooting (frankly, we’d just use a 12 gauge), and if you’ve ever spent much time watching TV hunting shows, you’d know that TV fly fishing shows scintillate by comparison (not to mention the virtue thing – TV hunting shows are typically infomercials in disguise). He’s not even universally loved if the comments below the story are any indication.

We wish Ms. Barnes a speedy recovery, though we wonder if carp shooters might not want to consider hockey masks or something. Just saying.

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