Nicaraguan fisherman chokes on live fish while joking with friends

Canadian Press ^ | 1-27-05

[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.

[Dan from Michigan]

Not the way I want to go.

[TheBigB]

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Hold muh cerveza

[Cowboy Bob]

Just think. This guy may have eventually emigrated to the US (as an illegal, of course).

[headsonpikes]

Just dang, at least!

[dfwright]

Triple dog dare?

[speedy]

Not the way I want to go.

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

[apackof2]

Darwin award

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[mikeus_maximus]

"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"

[mhking]

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...

[xJones]

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.

[Fierce Allegiance]

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

[steveegg]

And the alcohol he had just before putting the fish in his mouth had absolutly, positively nothing to do with it </sarcasm>

[TheEditor]

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.

[TASMANIANRED]

ROFLMAO

[montag813]

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.

[JimRed]

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.

[proudpapa]

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?

[sd-joe]

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

[World'sGoneInsane]

I hate articles like this that leave out key details.

Sounds fishy to me. Too many details, and it would be the proverbial fish tale.

[Fintan]

 

Chow down.

[boris]

There was a suspiciously similar newspaper article several years ago about a fisherman who stood and yawned--on the Amazon--and a fish lept from the river and lodged in his throat, also killing him.

I wonder if it's snopes time.

--Boris

[Polybius]

Put a razor blade and a Bic pen in your fishing boat's First Aid kit.

If this ever happens to your fishing buddy, here is what you need to do:

How to Perform an Emergency Tracheotomy

[RMDupree]

A quick search on Google using "chokes on fish" confirms it.

There have actually been a number of fellas who have died like this.

Sheesh.

[World'sGoneInsane]

There have actually been a number of fellas who have died like this.

It's like a leisurely running of the bulls.

[dog breath]

There are some really stupid ways to die and this man found a really stupid one. Definite proof that Darwin was right about some things.