Posted on 11/11/2019 10:24:03 AM PST by Gamecock
TACOMA, Wash. - When Jamie Bisceglia met up with some fishermen who had hooked an octopus during a fishing derby in the Tacoma Narrows August 2, she saw an opportunity for an unusual picture.
"It was a photo contest in the derby. So, crazy me, hindsight now and looking back, I probably made a big mistake," Bisceglia said.
Bisceglia put the octopus on her face and posed. At first, it grabbed with her with its suckers, and then did something she didn't expect. It bit her on the face.
"It had barreled its beak into my chin and then let go a little bit and did it again," said Bisceglia. "It was a really intense pain when it went inside and it just bled, dripping blood for a long time."
Bisceglia said the octopus was a smaller juvenile version of a giant Pacific octopus, although a spokeswoman at the Point Defiance Aquarium says it could have been a Pacific red octopus. Both have a powerful beak used to break and eat crabs, clams and mussels. And their bite contains a poisonous venom to immobilize their prey.
Bisceglia says that venom left her in incredible pain. But as owner of South Sound Salmon Sisters, she kept fishing for two more days before she finally went to the emergency room.
"And I'm still in pain," said Bisceglia. "I'm on three different antibiotics. This can come and go, the swelling, for months they say."
She says the whole painful experience taught her a valuable lesson about handling a live octopus.
"This was not a good idea," said Bisceglia. "I will never do it again."
Or maybe that bump means it’s evolving another eye
(serious argument someone gave me about how an eye ‘evolved’ when it really needs to be created all at once for it to work)
“Woman sent to hospital..”. Sounds much more dramatic than what happened.:
Correction: “”woman went to hospital” (2 days later)
I was expecting it to be ‘Florida woman’...guess it’s a good thing there ain’t no ‘octopusses’ in FLA-rida!
Not that it's a good experiment to try, you understand.
Just in case y’all don’t know: ALL octopi are venomous and some are lethally so, such as the Blue Ringed Octopus.
Of course, the Blue Ringed Octopus is from Australia, where everything is trying to kill you...
LoL. They got creepy-crawlees down under...
Theme from Octopussy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJCaN-avxo
LOL!
Good thing she didn’t put it elsewhere. People are truly stupid creatures.
the sad thing is that this will probably kick off a new craze like eating Tide Pods, only instead the challenge will be putting a live octopus on one’s face ...
Enjoy the suck.
Did she not see Alien or Aliens 2????
...venom left her in incredible pain. But as owner of South Sound Salmon Sisters, she kept fishing for two more days before she finally went to the emergency room.
Nice alliteration, but I'd suggest a modification to the name -- South Sound Simple Stupid Salmon Sisters.
Not quite the winner of a Darwin award... yet, but she has potential.
Oh those lesbians
“It puts the octopus on its skin”
It had barreled its beak into my chin and then let go a little bit and did it again,”
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