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Shark Attack

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Saw this article about a shark attack in South Africa. It is not the seal that interested me but the account of how the man chose to ignore the warning signs.

 

It is fairly obvious that he ignored the warning signs for the most basic of reasons.... in exactly the same fashion that the villagers eventually chose to ignore the boy who cried wolf. This is the most basic of concepts that authorities continually fail to comprehend.... in other words the authorities are like the boy who cried wolf, and eventually people will begin to ignore them and then are unprepared when the wolf really does strike!

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

­­That being said, there are definitely several venomous villains that stand out above the crowd. High on the list is another marine animal and Australian native, the geographic cone snail. Found along the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific, these intricately patterned, brown-and-white shelled gastropods have especially potent venom that paralyzes their prey almost instantly. When a tasty fish or snail wanders by, these attractive, harmless-looking shells extend a tubelike organ outfitted with what resembles a minispear. This weapon injects prey with a venom so powerful that victims may die before they even realize that they've been bitten [source: PBS].

Another deadly Australian animal is the inland taipan, which produces the most toxic venom of any snake in the world. A venomous bite from this predator is powerful enough to kill 15,000 mice [source: California Academy of Sciences]. Before the antivenin was created, few people lived to tell about their encounter with this reptile.

The world's deadliest spider, the Sydney funnel-web spider, also lives in Australia. Its venom acts on the body's nervous system and can kill in under 15 minutes [source: California Academy of Sciences]. Named for their uniquely shaped webs, these notoriously aggressive spiders may cause you to develop a severe case of arachnophobia.

 

I should just give up my job...and...step aside, Hoges...I'm gonna be the next tourist ambassador to Oz....

Come to Sunny Australia...and choose your own personal way to die....;)

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

*Note to self. Don't swim to Oz, take a plane.......and a big honkin' stick!!!

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 26
The world's deadliest spider, the Sydney funnel-web spider, also lives in Australia.

yeah...in.... Sydney   X-(   number of times I've woken up to one of 'em in the vanity basin when I go to the bathroom first thing in the morn.... need to leave the bathroom window shut... they like heading for water in summer, especially downstairs laundries, hide in the clothes.... pain in the arse in the swimming pool too...... you fish em out with the net after having sat on the bottom for days... and a few hours in the sun...they get up and walk away...   :-|      they survive on the oxygen trapped under their exoskeleton...  

I've drowned them in a can of spray til they're frothy white...and they still walk away, protected by that exoskeleton... back of a spade does the trick... long as they don't jump at ya first..

still shake the shoes everyday....   :S

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wonderful neighborhood you have there, Aussies...  ;P  

The derned critters hold annual competitions for the "I can kill ya quicka" prize.