[CopperTop]

"..An 18-month-old became critically ill after nibbling one-half of a mushroom cap given to her mother by a stranger who had picked mushrooms in the mountains that morning.."

Darwin's a cruel bastard, eh? What a stupid woman. d:^)

[dainbramaged]

Mushroom picking is not for idiots. There are many books available with plenty of photos and descriptions.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Someone once said,

“There are brave mushroom eaters and there are old mushroom eaters, but there are not old, brave mushroom eaters.”

Certainly Amanita and most other forms of toxic mushrooms turn a very characteristic blue upon a fresh break of the top-cap flesh. Absolutely preventable. But a poor little girl had her life destroyed.

[HangnJudge]

Looks kinda pretty, yummy too

[sodpoodle]

****A bumper crop of deadly wild “death cap” mushrooms..***

NOT A CROP!!

Wild mushrooms should never be harvested. I learned that as a child and passed it to my kids. One of their teachers and I took a class to a local park and picked dozens of species. We displayed them and taught the children NOT to ever eat them. A writer/photographer from the local paper printed an article, describing the dangers.

Where has our common knowledge and common sense gone?

[chris37]

What kind of idiot hippie would give an 18 month old a wild mushroom.

Good God!

[Born to Conserve]

They are almost always immigrants, probably uninsured, getting millions of dollars of medical care. That is a shame.

[Vaquero]

A friend lost a whole segment of his family 40-50 years ago. Aunt, uncle, cousins. The uncles parents had come from Sicily and 'showed them how to pick the right mushrooms' Well I suppose those Sicilian mushrooms 🍄 are different.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Oh look! A mushroom! I think I’ll eat it!”

[sodpoodle]

http://theselfsufficientliving.com/10-edible-poisonous-mushrooms-guide-mushroom-identification/

Great photos for any FReepers wanting to go on a mushroom hunt.

[JoeProBono]

[catnipman]

“The large outbreak may be related to a reported increase in the growth of wild mushrooms in 2016, triggered by greater rainfall and warm weather at the end of northern California’s autumn.”

more death and injury caused by “global warming”

[NormsRevenge]

What’s for dinner? Deathcaps. Yummy.

Every year, the same stories,, different names.. but they love their mushrooms.

[gaijin]

Honkies can absolutely be idiots, many of them are, but when this happens in about 90% of cases in California it’s some illegal alien.

I do remember a time about four years ago when every single person in the San Diego Burn Unit was an illegal alien needing treatment of like half million dollars per day per burned Pedro.

in Mexico you would get an SUV Express ride into the desert.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Shouldn't the mushroom eaters have special powers, like you know, throwing fireballs, jumping over tunnels, and becoming bigger in size to smash bricks?

Ooh! Did they eat the green ones and get extra lives?

[mowowie]

What do you call a mushroom that buys you beers all night?

A FUNGI to be with!