Darwin award for these people.
04/12/2023 5:02:06 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 38 replies
NY Post ^ | By Katherine Donlevy
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Encounter with Mushroom Sally...
Magic mushrooms vary a lot based on type.
Mexican mushrooms look much like you would expect of dried mushrooms, and are said to give a gentle high while enhancing color perception.
Hawaiian mushrooms, on the other hand, look like dried lawn grass, and their effect is described as “pushing an unpeeled pineapple in one ear and pulling it out the other. Over and over again for hours.” Not particularly pleasant.
Out in nature is the only place to really enjoy them.
“While the individuals in last week’s incident walked out without trouble . . .”
Says who?
They needed to be “Rescued”, at great expense, after all. They should have been told to stay put until they come down.
Alternatively, charged for the full costs of the rescue. “I ran out of Pringles, come get me” and “I’m really, really high” is not sufficient grounds for helicopter extraction. Life is tough. It’s a lot tougher if you’re stupid. It’s even tougher yet if you’re stupid, and on Drugs.
“You did what!? Don’t do that. When you come down, you can come down. Keep us posted.”
I was at Canyonlands NP some years back and noticed a helicopter hovering over the Needles loop trails by Elephant Hill. Since low level aircraft are not ordinarily allowed, I asked a Ranger what was up. SAR, it turns out. He didn’t elaborate.
Later that week, I found out the “Rest of the Story”. A group of hikers were tripping on L.S.D. and one participant started to get her freak on and ran away from the group. Efforts to locate her were unsuccessful, and she continued to hide from her friends, and later, the rescuers, believing they were out to “get her”, which of course they were. Canyonlands is high desert, around 6,000 feet average, and cold at night. Great way to die of exposure, or fall off a cliff.
A few days later she was found wandering a park road by another visitor, and was dumped unceremoniously at the nearest Ranger station.
Got lost? Well, I used to know a guy who once drove four times around the Washington beltway because he couldn’t find his exit. But that was alcohol, not magic mushrooms.