Posted on 04/12/2023 5:02:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Passers-by reported the group of “young adult males” acting strangely around noon at Stonycroft Beck, Newlands area of the Lake District National Park, roughly 75 miles north of Liverpool.
Two of the men — including the party’s driver — became ill after ingesting the mind-bending psychedelic fungi, the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team said.
The rescuers staged a delicate operation to convince the men to let them guide them to safety at the bottom of the mountain before it got dark.
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I can only imagine the men seeing their rescuers as ogres and giants trying to convince them to come to their place for dinner to be eaten, or something like that.
No bears in the UK, alas. Hereabouts they’d just leave them there and let nature take care of itself.
I did, however, try to navigate home riding my sister's horse after eating too many hash brownies at a friend's house.
I swear that horse was messing with my head the whole way home.
Party on Garth.
“It would blow your mind!!”
I’m wondering if it was amanti muscari (sic) instead of psilocybin
Psilocybin is a trip at high doses for sure but not to the point of wandering aimlessly needing rescue
I’m a veteran of many of the latter pretty familiar with raw shrooms right off the patty
We never took dry since we had fresh
That red capped Forest shroom is very dangerous
It can provoke repititive behavior whereby one simply repeats mundane or perilous even behavior over and over and over
And that’s a minimum negative reaction
It can kill u
FR’s stinking libertarians always push for legal weed. They also push for peyote. I guess their goal is vending machine narcotics. Idiots. They need to be banned from FR.
Mmm, narcotics in vending machines. Pure bliss.
Sounds like they are some fun guys.
could be worse...
they could be pushing the “safe and effective” experimental shots...
There but for the grace of God go I...
Lake District has been a druggie hangout for over 200 years, since the time of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.
Opening Google maps.
.
Only if you have exact change.
And in your altered state have retained the ability to count it.
Unnecessary obstacles.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of Jerry Garcia when this went down?
With free needles from the government!
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