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Nicaraguan fisherman chokes on live fish while joking with friends
Canadian Press ^ | 1-27-05

Posted on 1/27/2005, 8:41:16 PM by Dan from Michigan

Nicaraguan fisherman chokes on live fish while joking with friends

1 hour, 51 minutes ago

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - A man who joked to friends that he would eat a fish live choked to death when the creature squirmed and lodged in his throat, police and coroner's officials said Thursday.

Police said the incident occurred when Jose Angel Torres Padilla, 22, was fishing with friends on Monday in the municipality of Dario, about 70 kilometres north of the capital.

Police said the man's friends told them he had put the fish in his mouth, joking that he was going to eat it live. But the fish squirmed and slipped down his throat.

Benito Lindo, coroner for the provincial capital of Matagalpa, told The Associated Press by telephone that doctors conducting an autopsy had found a fish in the man's throat.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: animalrights; darwin; darwinaward; fish; whataignoranimus; whatamaroon
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Not the way I want to go.
1 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:41:17 PM by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan

2 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:42:24 PM by TheBigB (Existential void where prohibited.)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Hold muh cerveza


3 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:43:23 PM by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: Dan from Michigan
Just think. This guy may have eventually emigrated to the US (as an illegal, of course).
4 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:46:00 PM by Cowboy Bob (Fraud is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party)
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To: mhking

Just dang, at least!


5 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:47:25 PM by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Triple dog dare?


6 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:48:19 PM by dfwright
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To: Dan from Michigan
Not the way I want to go.

Me either. I've had some bad haddock in my day, but at least it was deceased.

7 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:48:45 PM by speedy
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To: Dan from Michigan

Darwin award


8 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:49:27 PM by apackof2 (optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Dan from Michigan; mhking
Darwin Award
Click the Pic

9 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:50:08 PM by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Dan from Michigan

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day...
Teach man to fish, and he will...
sit in a boat all day and drink beer and maybe choke while trying to swallow live fish"


10 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:50:35 PM by mikeus_maximus
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Darwin's been a busy boy this week, hasn't he?

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

11 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:53:22 PM by mhking (Do not mess with dragons, for thou art crunchy & good with ketchup...)
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To: Dan from Michigan
Police said the man's friends told them he had put the fish in his mouth, joking that he was going to eat it live. But the fish squirmed and slipped down his throat.

Both Darwin's ghost and PETA must be cheering.

12 posted on 1/27/2005, 8:57:09 PM by xJones
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To: Dan from Michigan

This is at least the 4th person I've read about dying this way since I've been a freeper.


13 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:00:58 PM by Fierce Allegiance (GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Dan from Michigan
And the alcohol he had just before putting the fish in his mouth had absolutly, positively nothing to do with it </sarcasm>
14 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:01:56 PM by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Gosh, how big was that fish? I've swallowed plenty of small, live fish in my day and never had a problem, except maybe a little aftertaste.


15 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:07:39 PM by TheEditor
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To: TheEditor

ROFLMAO


16 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:10:17 PM by TASMANIANRED (Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
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To: Dan from Michigan
A man who joked to friends that he would eat a fish live choked to death when the creature squirmed and lodged in his throat

Next time fish with friends who know the Heimlich maneuver.

17 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:28:40 PM by montag813
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Next time fish with friends who know the Heimlich maneuver.

It might not work for two reasons. First, the streamlined shape of the fish might let air pass without pushing the fish out; and a live fish in distress tends to spread its fins and gill covers, making it stick there.

18 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:36:18 PM by JimRed (Investigate, overturn and prosecute vote fraud in the State of Washington !)
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To: Dan from Michigan

I hate articles like this that leave out key details.

What I want to know is when the doctors found a fish in the man's throat, was it still alive?


19 posted on 1/27/2005, 9:56:47 PM by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: proudpapa

What I want to know is: What did they say?


20 posted on 1/27/2005, 10:54:43 PM by sd-joe
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