Posted on 08/30/2010 12:28:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
MILAN Aug 29 (Reuters) - At least 18 mushroom-lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favourite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy.
Mountain rescuers say eager mushroom seekers are abandoning safety procedures as they don camouflage and hunt in darkness to protect coveted troves, la Repubblica newspaper reported on Sunday.
"There is too much carelessness. Too many people don't give a darn about the right rules and unfortunately this is the result," Gino Comelli, head of the Alpine rescue service in northwest Italy's Valle di Fassa, told the newspaper.
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“I think that’s the morel to this story.”
Winner!
Are not these two channels propaganda arms of NBC/O-bam-bee?
It was so bad that, for a while the History Channel was known as th Hitler Channel.
that’s a shitake thing to say
They will show a menacing looking gloved hand (with a dark cloudy sky in the background) moving down to pick a mushroom!
If you think guns are not involved in Mushroom Hunting, just check of the Mushroom Season in Montana, very few years go by that they don’t have a shoot up.
And Lisa on Ice Road Truckers deserves her own show.
Damn...those are some pretty violent mushrooms!
Damn...those are some pretty violent mushrooms!
One idiot showed up, I didn't even know him, and he decided to go off in one the cow pastures to look for mushrooms for mushroom tea.
My old man had done one of the most boneheaded moves he had ever done, and bought a bunch of cattle from the Texas prison system.
Here's a warning to everyone. If a cow is too hot headed for the Texas prison system to fool with, it's too hot headed to put on your property.
Anyway, middle of the night, this idiot wandered into the pasture where we kept these hot headed cattle.
How many times that idiot got himself run over by a cow before he got back to his car I don't know.
I do know my brother and I had to go out there in the middle of the night and wrestle with that cow to get it's head out of his car window.
People never expect mushrooms to fight back.
You folks are nuts. That’s why I love this place. LOL
I betcha some editor is laughing his ass off right now.
I liked this movie when I saw it as a kid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057295/
Curse of the Mushroom People.
Great ending.
Captain Paul Watson, having sunk every vessel put under his command including a pair of water wings, now patrols the woodlands of the world to interfere with the wild mushroom trade. Watch his band of hippies hide in ambush in poison ivy. Watch them stumble about in the night in the woods. Watch them argue about whether treating athlete's foot is a hypocritical abandonment of their crusade. In a special episode, watch Paul Bethune leap onto the SUV of some suburban mushroom hunters who earlier had run over his carbon fiber, ethanol powered motor scooter which he left parked in the middle of the road.
Thanks for the link. I’ll have to hunt the movie down.
I ate a bunch of wild mushrooms once. Tripped for 4 hours.
Great movie. Thanks for posting the link. Saw it as a kid also and could never recall the title.
ROFLMAO - You always find the best threads Brucifer. I’ve got to get out more. ;o)
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