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Twiztidsage
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Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC]
#11290111 - 10/21/09 03:13 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oct. 19th 2009 - BC Local News - Ladysmith Chronicle
The Town of Ladysmith is warning anyone who finds a brightly colour mushroom known as Fly agaric in their yard not to touch it.
“If they touch it and lick their fingers they can definitely get sick,” said Glen Britton, the parks supervisor.
The mushrooms were discovered late last week in a yard on Malone Road. They are bright autumnal colours like orange and red, with white dots on the cap. The Latin name is Amanita muscaria.
Britton said the town was notified about the mushrooms on Thursday by a man who spotted them while out walking.
“We get a lot of these types of calls and usually they’re false,” Britton said.
However, this time the call wasn’t false, he said.
Britton said the mushrooms are rare, especially in residential areas.
He said the mushrooms could kill a dog.
Since the Chronicle posted the mushroom story on its website Friday afternoon, it has received two letters about them. Both letters said the mushrooms are not called death caps, as originally reported. In fact, according to a letter from Doug Snead, death caps are amanita phalloides, which are not the mushrooms in the picture.
Nonetheless, Fly agaric is poisonous to people. Within one to four hours of ingesting the mushroom people can experience diarrhoea, vomiting and dryness in the mouth. Accelerated heart rate, mental confusion, nervousness, delirium, and hallucinations are also symptoms.
Britton said anyone who finds the mushrooms should call the town at 250-245-6448.
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Twiztidsage
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Twiztidsage]
#11290112 - 10/21/09 03:13 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow.
Fungiphobia at it's finest.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Twiztidsage]
#11290236 - 10/21/09 04:13 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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anyone who finds the mushrooms should call me
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Twiztidsage]
#11290310 - 10/21/09 05:00 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Britton said anyone who finds the mushrooms should call the town at 250-245-6448.
So that they can sell them.
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He said the mushrooms could kill a dog.
Just like thousands of other species?
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Morgenstern]
#11290328 - 10/21/09 05:13 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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they act like it's going to jump up and kill them by just looking at it... there is lots of things in their own house that can kill them if ate, they should call their town about those products too lol you know just to be on the safe side
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Don Juan]
#11290754 - 10/21/09 09:07 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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u cant get sick from licking ur fingers after touching amanita muscaria. who the fuck licks their fingers after touching anything outside anyway?
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Doctor_Dick]
#11290786 - 10/21/09 09:18 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Doctor_Dick said: u cant get sick from licking ur fingers after touching amanita muscaria. who the fuck licks their fingers after touching anything outside anyway?
Just what I was thinking.
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I'm pretty sure you can't 'get sick' from licking your fingers after touching Amanita muscarias...hence why people eat a shitload of caps.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: kydelic]
#11291799 - 10/21/09 12:37 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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well, when they're not cooked or dried they are definately poisonous and can kill you...but u actually gotta physically eat wet mushrooms to get sick. its like ibotenic acid converts into muscimol when dried/heated or something the ibotenic acid is what will fuck you up correct me if im wrong.
you could most likely rub your hands all over a fresh amanita and lick your hands clean and wont feel any different. this is just some bad misinforming reporting.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Doctor_Dick]
#11291910 - 10/21/09 12:55 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Amanita muscaria wouldn't likely kill anything, unless a dog gobbled up a buttload of caps or something. Deer eat them, get fucked up, and go back and eat more. Then they lick up the pee of anyone who ate them.
Amanita pantherina on the other hand, will get you high and may possibly kill you. It is still listed as deadly poisonous in some books, where A. muscaria usually is not.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Twiztidsage]
#11291987 - 10/21/09 01:04 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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panther caps are just more toxic...i've eaten panther caps plenty of times and im perfectly fine...they both have the same chemistry just panther caps are like 2-3 times stronger.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Doctor_Dick]
#11292021 - 10/21/09 01:10 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've touched amanitas before, no problem. It's funny cuz Ladysmith is quite close to where I live.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Doctor_Dick]
#11292058 - 10/21/09 01:17 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I never said that eating panthers will kill you. I said it was still listed as deadly poisonous in many books, where fly agaric is not anymore; and may possibly kill you.
Eating large amounts of any poisonous mushroom may kill you though, including A. muscaria.
2-3x stronger means 2-3x more likely to kill you.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: Twiztidsage]
#11292137 - 10/21/09 01:29 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow journalism is that bad in B.C.?
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: caphillkid]
#11292147 - 10/21/09 01:31 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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The news stories on The Shroomery often make journalism appear easy....
Edited by Twiztidsage (10/21/09 01:32 PM)
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: caphillkid]
#11292728 - 10/21/09 02:57 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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caphillkid said: Wow journalism is that bad in B.C.?
For what it's worth, a friend in Victoria, BC sent me photos of the city hall in that town that has a very large Brugmansia versicolor shrub growing right out in the open, in plain view of the local TV station (located across the street) who have only done one, very brief, story on it in which they, in both his opinion and mine, vastly understated the danger. There is another Brugmansia shrub growing, again in plain sight, easily-accessible to anyone, in the main tourist area in the Inner Harbor. Both of these shrubs are a good meter tall with several large fist-sized blossoms. There's been a rumor spread among the street people that City Hall sprays the shrubs with poison. Personally, I think that's due to one guy trying it and getting sick as shit off the normal chemicals in the plant.... I mean, it is a very close relative of Datura, so it stands to reason that the effects would be roughly similar.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: buddhabadger]
#11292826 - 10/21/09 03:15 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is hilarious, Damn ignorance, it's the route of the illegalising of all drugs. If we didn't have ignorant people who don't know better we wouldn't have idiots who take drugs and die. Like the fool who jumped a bridge on shrooms, if your gonna trip avoid heights durrhhh.
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TheRavingShroom said: This is hilarious, Damn ignorance, it's the route of the illegalising of all drugs. If we didn't have ignorant people who don't know better we wouldn't have idiots who take drugs and die. Like the fool who jumped a bridge on shrooms, if your gonna trip avoid heights durrhhh.
I'd take that further and say "If you're gonna trip, have a trip sitter you can trust, just in case."
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: buddhabadger]
#11293603 - 10/21/09 05:08 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Or if your going to trip, try not to bloody kill yourself- it gives trips in whatever form a bad name which is pretty unjustified in my oppinion and doesnt make things easier for the cause.
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Re: Toxic Mushrooms Spotted!!!!......[BC] [Re: ssv]
#11293694 - 10/21/09 05:22 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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wow...a fly agaric...makes the news...WTF? There are a lot of other toxic mushrooms here in BC, why don't they make any news? Silly islanders.
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