It's Australia. EVERYTHING tries to kill you in Australia.
He might have checked the website "Pro Tips: Australia", and he would have noticed that... 
Posted on 11/06/2018 12:52:56 PM PST by Borges
He did a stupid kid dare and paid dearly for it. I’ve done stupid kid dares and got off lucky.
This is one reason humans who cooked their food tended to live longer and produce more offspring.
I lived in Japan for about a decade, and raw ocean fish was ok, but no raw crabs or shrimp, and no raw freshwater fish or shellfish. I had read about lungworms in college, and sewage contamination was always in the back of my mind.
If you buy escargo (snail) you get it in two cans. one can with all the shells and the other can with the cleaned and inspected snail. I think they are kept out of their shell and feed a special diet for a period of time.
I had a cambodian friend who’s family crossed the killing fields. He talked about eating slugs, snails, grass and worms. When he got to the U.S medical facilities for immigrants he had tapeworms, and other types of parasitic diseases.
The thing that makes you cry though is it started out with mother, father, 2 sisters and 1 brother. When they made it to safety only the mother, 1 sister and himself were alive. That’s where he ends the story.
Know your wild life. Especially in Australia, animals there play for keeps.
He’s only displaying his conservative bonafides. You know, like wishing anyone committing any sort of crime deserves any punishment meted out to him (including prison rape), because he knew it was wrong.
NE Pa back in the 60’s a guy did a belly flop off a same height platform.Killed him
I’ve mentioned this before, but I think it bears repeating: the same impulse that makes a young boy light a fart is responsible for most of the great inventions of the civilized world.
It makes you really appreciate the wisdom of the Mosaic restrictions on certain foods, including shellfish.
Not sure what you’re talking about. Someone this age is old enough to know that putting random wildlife in your mouth is a bad idea. I’m not happy he died and feel bad for his family. It was still a stupid thing to do.
I don't think anyone is denying it was a stupid thing to do. We're merely saying, "there but for the grace of God go I."
Fair enough.
I love the show “Monsters Inside of Me”
I did much stupider than that. I wonder how I survived.......
On the rare occasions I eat sushi, I try to wash it down with a double shot of Iwai or Suntory to pickle any bad critters.
It's Australia. EVERYTHING tries to kill you in Australia.
He might have checked the website "Pro Tips: Australia", and he would have noticed that...
The things boys do. On a dare I once jumped off a 60 foot platform into a deep lake. I didn’t land exactly feet first, rather on my butt. It hurt so much, I thought I would be paralyzed (which I wasn’t, thank God)
On the bright side, it cured me of peer pressure forever....”
Not to mention “pier” pressure!
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