Caterpillars can be deadly

[Galapoheros]

I was at the Great Barrier Reef listening to an official guide explaining about the cone shells. Only people with leather hard soled shoes were allowed on that stretch of beach. There were a lot of giggles. Later that day we heard the ambulances. 1 man got zapped by a box jellyfish and one girl got hit by a cone shell. The girl was in a coma.

I helped compile a photographic essay of cluster munitions being used by NATO during the Kosovo debacle. Essentially we took the occupation of the person, their activity at the time of the incident and the nature of the wounds to produce proof positive of the indiscriminate used of those munitions in civilian areas. As it turned out I had to present our findings at one location to a group of about 25 people. The people became furious. They all walked out. They weren't furious about the munitions but at me for showing them the realities. NONE, not one vented about the innocent civilians maimed. just that their sensibilities were offended.

People in the modern world are brainwashed and hypnotized. Fully programmed by industrial and commercial vested interests. Show them a spider bite and Pavlov's dog, they start salivating nonsense. Thinking for themselves and reasoning is not just downplayed, it's forbidden. You might buy someone elses product. You might object to the government slaughtering innocent civilians.

Sorry to hear about the wreck. Hope no deaths or lasting injuries.

I don't think anybody was seriously hurt, but the insurance agent reminded me, "No news is good news". Right after it happened, I considered the behavior of the person in front of me as "I'm going to sue" behavior, I opted for min. insurance but looks like everything is fine. Yeah the conditioning is especially bad in the US; politically correct, inappropriate images, etc. I was watching news, drug cartel issue, severed heads, all blurred out of course to US audience. But was changing the channel and stopped on a Latin channel, it was the same news, nothing blurred out, in fact they kept showing everything over and over and over again. They didn't care what people want to see, they react to what what people want to see and and deliver in some other "less developed" countries(what that might mean is debatable, like you say, less reality, it's not good). Of course the cartels could have owned the news station .."show everybody what will happen if they mess with us..."

 

[milehigh]

Wow!!! I never imagined a caterpillar could be so dangerous. Here in Michigan I'm not even sure we have caterpillars that could harm you at all. Thanks for the post!

 

[kean]

i still remember when i was in grade school was about 10-11yrs. old then, i was resting under a mango tree when a furry catterpillar dropped at the back of my neck.. it was just about 2-3inches long and very furry.. i swiped it with my hand and after a few minutes i was already itching.. spreading from the back of my neck to my back and my chest.. together with my hands.. and formed skin rash.. which was like mapping out on my skin.. my hand looked swollen too.. i just went home and my mom told me to take a white vinegar bath.. then the itching and rash subsided after a few hours..

 

[ShredderEmp]

i still remember when i was in grade school was about 10-11yrs. old then, i was resting under a mango tree when a furry catterpillar dropped at the back of my neck.. it was just about 2-3inches long and very furry.. i swiped it with my hand and after a few minutes i was already itching.. spreading from the back of my neck to my back and my chest.. together with my hands.. and formed skin rash.. which was like mapping out on my skin.. my hand looked swollen too.. i just went home and my mom told me to take a white vinegar bath.. then the itching and rash subsided after a few hours..

That sounds like the bug lovers Newton.

 

[Spepper]

Wow. That caterpillar story is crazy. I'm paranoid now.

 

[pitbulllady]

I got stung by a saddleback caterpillar when I was about 15 or so, and that was one of the most excruciating things I've ever been through. I hurt every bit as as bad as my encounter with a Portuguese Man-O-War at Myrtle Beach a couple of years before. I've been bitten by a Copperhead, and that wasn't even as bad, pain-wise, as that caterpillar! I've never experienced any wasp, bee or ant sting that could even come close on the pain scale. I've actually got a high tolerance for pain and live with daily severe nerve pain from multiple pinched spinal nerves and a knee that's just a train wreck, but just the memory of that pain from that one caterpillar is enough to fill me with dread.

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