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Most deadly animal in certain states!

Spiderman

Veteran Member
In certain states of America, dogs are the most deadly animal. In Alabama, for example, you have a higher chance of dying from a dog attack, than any attack of any other animal! Raise your dogs well! ;)
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Spiderman

Veteran Member
That's why raising a child well is so important.

I have lived in montana, and there was a place called wild eyes, where children could pet a grizzly bear, and there was no danger involved. The bear was raised from a young age to love people.

It's an example of why it is so important to raise children well and not abuse them. An abused dog can turn into a killing machine.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
I'm glad you added this. Because it's almost certainly the owners faults.
It is never the dog's fault, because an untrained dog, who is not raised to know right from wrong, does not have a clue what is right and what is wrong, and their brain capacity hasn't reached the state, where we can blame them for doing something like that.

That wasn't the purpose of my thread is to blame dogs for anything. I was trying to express the importance of raising dogs well, as well as the importance of raising children well and not abusing them.
 

Dan From Smithville

Monsters! Monsters from the id!
Staff member
Premium Member
This happened down in the Ozarks where I am from. Who knew that bluegill were so deadly? Or was it something else that killed him?

Wednesday, May 16, 2001


Man chokes to death on live fish

http://www.newstribune.com/stories/051601/...516010943NA.asp


VIBURNUM, Mo. (AP) -- A Bixby man died after trying to swallow a live fish.

Investigators said Todd Poller, 45, was apparently drinking with friends all day Saturday near Neal's Creek about six miles outside Viburnum in Iron County.

Poller's friends reported him yelling, "Hey, watch this" before grabbing a 5-inch perch from the water and dropping it headfirst into his mouth, Iron County Sheriff Alan Mathes said.

Poller began choking and gasping for air. The sheriff said the others tried to dislodge the fish and perform the Heimlich maneuver. He was pronounced dead when emergency crews arrived.

An autopsy found that Poller died from asphyxiation from having the fish lodged in his throat. Besides choking, Poller also suffered lacerations to the inside of his throat from the fish's fins.

Mathes said Poller was a "well-known character" in the area.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
The number 1 deadliest animal on Earth is Humans.

We kill each other, and every other living thing we come across typically.
I agree with that. But I was speaking of animals that are not homo sapiens. Context is everything! Humans are the scariest creatures there are! ;)
 

Hockeycowboy

Witness for Jehovah
Premium Member
This happened down in the Ozarks where I am from. Who knew that bluegill were so deadly? Or was it something else that killed him?

Wednesday, May 16, 2001


Man chokes to death on live fish

http://www.newstribune.com/stories/051601/...516010943NA.asp


VIBURNUM, Mo. (AP) -- A Bixby man died after trying to swallow a live fish.

Investigators said Todd Poller, 45, was apparently drinking with friends all day Saturday near Neal's Creek about six miles outside Viburnum in Iron County.

Poller's friends reported him yelling, "Hey, watch this" before grabbing a 5-inch perch from the water and dropping it headfirst into his mouth, Iron County Sheriff Alan Mathes said.

Poller began choking and gasping for air. The sheriff said the others tried to dislodge the fish and perform the Heimlich maneuver. He was pronounced dead when emergency crews arrived.

An autopsy found that Poller died from asphyxiation from having the fish lodged in his throat. Besides choking, Poller also suffered lacerations to the inside of his throat from the fish's fins.

Mathes said Poller was a "well-known character" in the area.
Got a question... did the fish live?
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
This happened down in the Ozarks where I am from. Who knew that bluegill were so deadly? Or was it something else that killed him?

Wednesday, May 16, 2001


Man chokes to death on live fish

http://www.newstribune.com/stories/051601/...516010943NA.asp


VIBURNUM, Mo. (AP) -- A Bixby man died after trying to swallow a live fish.

Investigators said Todd Poller, 45, was apparently drinking with friends all day Saturday near Neal's Creek about six miles outside Viburnum in Iron County.

Poller's friends reported him yelling, "Hey, watch this" before grabbing a 5-inch perch from the water and dropping it headfirst into his mouth, Iron County Sheriff Alan Mathes said.

Poller began choking and gasping for air. The sheriff said the others tried to dislodge the fish and perform the Heimlich maneuver. He was pronounced dead when emergency crews arrived.

An autopsy found that Poller died from asphyxiation from having the fish lodged in his throat. Besides choking, Poller also suffered lacerations to the inside of his throat from the fish's fins.

Mathes said Poller was a "well-known character" in the area.

Perch have a sharp spiny dorsal fin, if extended in the narrow passage of the throat there is little chance of getting it out.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
That seems to be what happened. The fins lodged it in the throat preventing easy removal.

Well he won't be doing that again

As a child i used the local river as my swimming pool. I would try to catch the fish by hand, sometimes with success. We enjoyed a few trout that way. One day i caught a perch, those spined stuck in the palm of my hand endured i never did it again
 

Dan From Smithville

Monsters! Monsters from the id!
Staff member
Premium Member
Well he won't be doing that again

As a child i used the local river as my swimming pool. I would try to catch the fish by hand, sometimes with success. We enjoyed a few trout that way. One day i caught a perch, those spined stuck in the palm of my hand endured i never did it again
I did all that too. Same results. I fish for them, so I found a way to get back. And tasty too.
 

pearl

Well-Known Member
That wasn't the purpose of my thread is to blame dogs for anything. I was trying to express the importance of raising dogs well, as well as the importance of raising children well and not abusing them.

Both very important. I remember when my daughter had learned to creep. We had a German Shepherd that I trained not to be food aggressive in the event my daughter decided to try the dog's food, which she did. I had left the kitchen for a minute while 'Blitz' was eating, upon returning Blitz was watching my daughter eating his food.
But I do feel that, even with the best training there is always animal instinct which may be harmful in certain breeds.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Perch have a sharp spiny dorsal fin, if extended in the narrow passage of the throat there is little chance of getting it out.
Interesting you know that.

So, that poor guy.

He tries to swallow a fish whole, it gets stuck with a sharp fin in his throat, he cannot get it to move, and dies a frightening uncomfortable death from oxygen deprivation.

What he did was stupid, and self inflicted, but with all the stupid things I've done, I feel sorry for him.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Well he won't be doing that again

As a child i used the local river as my swimming pool. I would try to catch the fish by hand, sometimes with success. We enjoyed a few trout that way. One day i caught a perch, those spined stuck in the palm of my hand endured i never did it again
I didn't see this post when I posted my last one. I guess you had perch stick into your hand with sharp fin. I'm just surprised you identified the fish as perch that did so , and retained the memory that perch have them, and that caused the man's death.

Jesus, when he made the fish, gave them sharp find to protect against predators. :p. Just giving you a bad time lol! :D

Do they have perch in France?
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Yes and they are on the menu of many river and lake side restaurants
So, it sounds like they come from the rivers and lakes that are near these restaurants?

Although I think fishing is mean, painful, and scary for the fish to have hook go through mouth when it gets excited about something delicious, then the fear and pain it goes through , and confusion being reeled in, then taken outside it's element onto land , or into a boat...


Whoever invented fishing is mean:tired:, who has no clue the fear and pain fish feel:flushed:, and I cannot believe people do that in France, the land of Romance and peace!:kissing:


But, regardless, I could totally enjoy living in France, working for one of those restaurants, catching the perch in the streams and lakes nearby. :D

I enjoy fishing, but it is still irrefutably mean, barbaric, murderous, creepy, and cruelty to animals to do that!:mad:

You people in the romantic land of France, and some of your traditions you have! :p
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
So, it sounds like they come from the rivers and lakes that are near these restaurants?

Although I think fishing is mean, painful, and scary for the fish to have hook go through mouth when it gets excited about something delicious, then the fear and pain it goes through , and confusion being reeled in, then taken outside it's element onto land , or into a boat...


Whoever invented fishing is mean:tired:, who has no clue the fear and pain fish feel:flushed:, and I cannot believe people do that in France, the land of Romance and peace!:kissing:


But, regardless, I could totally enjoy living in France, working for one of those restaurants, catching the perch in the streams and lakes nearby. :D

I enjoy fishing, but it is still irrefutably mean, barbaric, murderous, creepy, and cruelty to animals to do that!:mad:

You people in the romantic land of France, and some of your traditions you have! :p
Just kidding!

We do crazy things in America and are barbaric a country in my generation! ;)
 
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