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He's in Barbados and just messaged me that he'd eaten a fruit on a beach that tasted a bit like apple and burned his mouth.
I knew what it was instantly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel
Symptoms include an intensely painful burning sensation in your throat, excruciating pain, inability to swallow and breathe and your insides turning inside out through your asshole.
A "doctor" located "above the pharmacy" has given him some Benadryl Allergy for Children and what he thinks is cocaine.
Where does he live in the U.K?
Hope he’s ok the dimwit.
He's a ****ing top end programmer, used to earn the big bucks with facebook etc.
****ing city kids, no idea that things in the countryside can kill you!
Jebus. That tree sounds like a right dick. 😲
Facebook. Always Facebook.
The fruit is possibly fatal if eaten; however, "fatalities from ingestion are not reported in the modern literature"[9] and "ingestion may produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, bacterial superinfection, and the potential for airway compromise due to edema. Patients with a history of ingestion and either oropharyngeal burns or gastrointestinal symptoms should be evaluated for admission into hospital. Care is supportive."[10]
sounds like fun!
Facebook. Always Facebook.
Programmer? Is this typical of their lot?
His nicknames going to be "spicy" from now on, as his first message was "I've just eaten a spicy apple on the beach!"
No,I meant he probably read too much fb content whilst working for them. 😆
Have you done the decent thing and sent him a list of the symptoms yet? Lol
Edit: Oh, add permanent erectile dysfunction to the list you send him!
“ingestion may produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, bacterial superinfection,
We’ve all had a meal like that on our hols. In fact a had a dose of that in Torbay while sharing a 2-bed touring caravan with a family of 4
Well, my first message was "HAHAHAHAHA - mate, you just ate a death apple".
But yes, I've sent him the symptoms list. He's pissed me off a bit by not going to A&E.
Yeah, joking aside I think I would be on my way to A and E. This alone would scare the hell out of me and I'm not totally sure what it means:
bacterial superinfection.
Seriously? He was on the beach and just thought " I know, I'll eat this fruit, that I don't recognise" how ****ing dumb can you be!
He needs to go to A&E.
He didn't spot the red bands around the tree?
Red bands mean edible, right?
Tell me about it, his new nicknames a toss up between spicy and Darwin.
Is he there with his Mrs?
She will probably kill him if the apple doesn't...
Same old story. He listened to the snake. Was he suddenly ashamed of his nudity?
Is he there with his Mrs?
She will probably kill him if the apple doesn’t
Nahhh man, he's single and I guess now I realise he's one of those guys that are a danger to themselves and others when single.
Bless him though.
Let him die. Keeping stupid people from killing themselves is ****ing up evolution.
Sounds like a tasty hors d’oeuvre.
What did he have for a main course? Rotten Fugu carcass scavenged from the bin?
Just think of it as evolution in action. It’s just nature’s way of culling the stupid.
But without natural risk takers to act as space monkeys, our human ancestors would have never have ventured out of the jungle to go on to eat olives! Idiots contribute valuable knowledge to the collective whole.
He met me in the alps this year and wanted to try mountain biking so I pointed him down the Pleney run. He survived and is turning into quite a good naturally talented mountain biker.
I think this proves that you have to be missing something in your head to be good at downhilling.
^^ That gave me a good chuckle rayban.😆
So any update on your mate, raybanwomble?
Hope your mate is ok...I got a plant in the back garden if you was to sit under it for even a few minutes it would kill you!!!
That bloke Chris McCandless killed himself in Alaska by eating something daft didn't he?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless
I got a plant in the back garden if you was to sit under it for even a few minutes it would kill you!!!
Trifid?
That bloke Chris McCandless killed himself in Alaska by eating something daft didn’t he?
I thought he thought he'd eaten something stupid, but actually hadn't, and if he'd walked a bit further up river he'd have found a bridge and been absolutely fine.
Nah water lily.🤣 Stolen from a book.
I thought he thought he’d eaten something stupid, but actually hadn’t, and if he’d walked a bit further up river he’d have found a bridge and been absolutely fine.
He ate something he shouldn't have, but it was something that looked very similar to something that would have been fine, which is what he thought he was eating.
Not that stupid a mistake, but when he tried to walk out and find a way to cross the river, he went in the opposite direction to a local bridge that would have got him to safety, gave up, went back to his shelter and died.
Pretty unlucky on 2 counts. Or stupid, depending on your worldview.
Worth a read and that Wikipedia link, there have been interesting updates since the book/movie (including from Krackeur). Looking more like he ate something that wasn't actually known to be a problem at the time.
He ate something he shouldn’t have, but it was something that looked very similar to something that would have been fine, which is what he thought he was eating.
That's what's in the film, but it's rather more nuanced than that in reality IIRC.
Edit: as mashr says.
Manchineel:
All parts of the tree contain strong toxins, some unidentified.
I like the fact they don't know some of the toxins.
They kind of stop at 'we all know it's poisonous, don't eat it' stage.
njee, mashr, fair enough. I read the book 7,8 years ago I think. saw the film more recently. Didn't he have notes in his journal about realising what he was picking not being what he was actually picking?
Edit: never mind, I'll read the link.
He's feeling better today, swelling and burning has subsided - it seems he received a very small dose as he didn't swallow anything - just bit into it!
Still funny as hell for me and everyone who knows him, now he's not going to die.
Glad to hear he’s on the road to recovery.
Probably.