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mountainplayer
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Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family
#15456180 - 12/02/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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A friend asked me if I'm aware how dangerous it is to pick and eat wild mushrooms, and cited the following recent incident as a reason I should reconsider. She really believed that this guy was an experienced mushroom hunter.
As near as I can tell from the article, the guy who wrote The Horse Whisperer picked and ate a toxic Cortinarius on his brothers estate, simply because someone told him that they were chanterelles and porcini.
Noobs (I consider myself among this group) be careful! Consider each mushroom carefully, based on its own characteristics, not the one's that you are hoping are there. If your mushroom doesn't fit all of the characteristics in the key you are using, consider it for its beauty but don't eat it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1308997/The-deadly-dish-poisoned-lives-How-The-Horse-Whisperers-Nicholas-Evans-killed-family-wild-mushrooms.html
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suchen
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: mountainplayer]
#15456229 - 12/02/11 08:02 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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The veil must have not yet broken on those Corts, but that is still a pretty grievous error. Even when cutting them up for cooking he should have seen the gills which porcini do not have. Poor guy and his family though, that sucks a bunch to make such a mistake
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mountainplayer
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: suchen]
#15456379 - 12/02/11 08:36 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
suchen said: The veil must have not yet broken on those Corts, but that is still a pretty grievous error. Even when cutting them up for cooking he should have seen the gills which porcini do not have. Poor guy and his family though, that sucks a bunch to make such a mistake 
For sure. When I showed my wife the article, she said that he must have gone out just "picking mushrooms" for dinner.
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wintersbefore
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: mountainplayer]
#15456459 - 12/02/11 08:54 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Not that this story isn't credible, but it is the Daily Mail:
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mountainplayer
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: wintersbefore]
#15456521 - 12/02/11 09:11 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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The internet is a wonderful (and terrible) thing, Wintersbefore.
As near as I can tell from a google search, the Daily Mail article is legit.
What I find fascinating is that my post shows up as number 6 on a search for the horse whisperor author being poisoned by mushrooms. And I posted it only an hour ago. I hope this isn't my 15 minutes of fame.
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: mountainplayer]
#15456630 - 12/02/11 09:31 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't the toxic corts have delayed symptoms?
"It is not just that the immediate symptoms of the poisoning – nausea followed by acute renal failure"
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psilocybinguy
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: Byrain]
#15456693 - 12/02/11 09:42 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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That guy was an idiot. I posted the same story back in august http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/14987992 and I got a bunch of responses from mostly tools. stay safe, and dont eat anything you dont know aboout
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Dubwobble
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: psilocybinguy]
#15457491 - 12/03/11 01:57 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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A friend asked me if I'm aware how dangerous it is to pick and eat wild mushrooms, and cited the following recent incident as a reason I should reconsider. She really believed that this guy was an experienced mushroom hunter.
If he new the slightest bit about edible wild mushrooms there is no way he would have mistaken a cort for a cep.
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: mountainplayer]
#15458019 - 12/03/11 08:07 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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There was a similar incident in my hometown in August. Two couples, independantly of each other, had picked and consumed what they were "sure" was chanterelles. They were, according to the newspaper article, "experienced mushroom hunters". Well, it turned out they had picked an unhealthy mix of chanterelles and Cortinarius rubellus.
They got very sick a day or two after eating, but didn't even have in mind that it was due to the mushrooms, before the doctors interrogated them in the hospital. They are all queued up for kidney transplants, needing three hours daily dialysis until then.
It seems to me they have obviously not been anywhere near experienced - more so like they've just raked a lot of mushrooms into their bags. It is for me unbelievable that, with just a hint of observance, one should be able to determine what is a chanterelle and what is not, on the spot.
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daz01
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Re: Horse Whisperer author poisons himself and family [Re: Anglerfish]
#15458098 - 12/03/11 08:45 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haha, my mum use to bring this guy up when I first started mushroom hunting, thinking I was going to kill myself.
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