"Oh, boy."
Visiting from the United States? Hawaii is part of the United States.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets infected with rat lungworm.
This is a very nasty disease
for which there is now no
Known cure. One side affect
Is severe pain in bones and
joints which can last for years
and can be very debilitating.
Play stupid games...
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Sounds like another candidate vying for the Darwin Award.
An Australian kid ate a slug on a dare, got rat lungworm, was paralyzed for a year and later died.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html
Since we can’t fix stupid, sometime mother nature has to do it for us.
"Oh, boy."
WHAT? AGAIN?? Do these people read the news?? A guy died last year from doing just that, eating a slug! And my God, why the hell would you ever do that in the first place? I stepped on one barefoot when I was a kid, it took forever to get off. It was like superglue mixed with tar. I tried everything, gasoline, turpentine, and these lunatics ATE it??
My God, you can also get this by drinking contaminated water and vegetables....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis
I don’t think I’ve eaten sushi since Reagan was in the White House, but if I ever do, I will wash it down with a shot of Iwai or Suntory whiskey or maybe some plum wine to pickle any critters therein.
I mean it was a “Triple Dog Dare”, what could he do?
Another example of why people should avoid contact with creatures humans do not have a long history of close contact with.
I hope he won something good on that bet, not just bragging rights. Nope, he’s a moron.
Rat Lungworm is a great name for a rock band.
I guess he never watched Monsters Inside Me.