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[exmoor dave]

Actually Brazil nuts are absolutely lethal. They grow in pods in trees up to 50 metres high. The pods weigh up to 10 kg. If they fall on you, you are dead!
I have seeen a tree in Cuba, the ground was littered with nuts, but nobody was stupid enough to go and pick them up

In the US there's a tree with fir-cones that weigh something like 4lb each, I think they call it a widow maker tree or something like that

 

[czechmate]

Actually Brazil nuts are absolutely lethal. They grow in pods in trees up to 50 metres high. The pods weigh up to 10 kg. If they fall on you, you are dead!
I have seeen a tree in Cuba, the ground was littered with nuts, but nobody was stupid enough to go and pick them up

On a beach, also in Cuba, I found a lovely spot in the shade of a tree. Got comfy, laid back and looked up to see a coconut way up directly overhead. I decided to move. A lady came along and set up where we had been. Half an hours later, said coconut fell and missed her by less then a foot but exactly where I had been.
Lucky day

 

[Danllan]

On a beach, also in Cuba, I found a lovely spot in the shade of a tree. Got comfy, laid back and looked up to see a coconut way up directly overhead. I decided to move. A lady came along and set up where we had been. Half an hours later, said coconut fell and missed her by less then a foot but exactly where I had been.
Lucky day

Too right, I have never seen it first hand but know of several definite 'deaths by coconut' in Tanzania.

An odd tree-related injury that I did see first hand, although not fruit related, was a ranger in the Eastern Serenget get a broken or dislocated arm when a colleague unexpectedly dislodged a dead lioness who was wedged about fifteen feet up in tree fork. The poor fellow tried to fend it off what must have been 250lb of dead tabby and his arm really wasn't at the right angle afterwards... .

 

[Nearly]

Too right, I have never seen it first hand but know of several definite 'deaths by coconut' in Tanzania.

An odd tree-related injury that I did see first hand, although not fruit related, was a ranger in the Eastern Serenget get a broken or dislocated arm when a colleague unexpectedly dislodged a dead lioness who was wedged about fifteen feet up in tree fork. The poor fellow tried to fend it off what must have been 250lb of dead tabby and his arm really wasn't at the right angle afterwards... .

Attacked by a dead lioness

 

[wr.]

WTF

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[Danllan]

Attacked by a dead lioness

It was a bit funny, but we did get the chap to Seronera a.s.a.p.

The most ridiculous verified safari injury I know of is a Kenyan PH in - I think - the 60s who was 'gored' by a dikdik... (google it).

 

[ollie989898]

Most insane thing I ever saw for sale in the US in a pharmacy was a jar of 1000 paracetamol tablets.

 

[Danllan]

Most insane thing I ever saw for sale in the US in a pharmacy was a jar of 1000 paracetamol tablets.

We digress but... haven't seen anything as dangerous as that, but once saw a lime green package labelled 'Penifresh', 'for the male member', it looked like and was a cheap Asian rip-off of a Scandinavian product. There were several on the shelf (chemist in Arusha) so my chum and self both bought one for the hell of it - I don't know about him but mine is still as bought and hiding in a cupboard (it was an interesting conversation with Mrs Danllan when she found it). And we bought a third one which, being decent chaps, we sent to a friend who was then serving as an officer RN in a bomber sub. Of course, we wrapped it carefully in strong, clear plastic. That was in about 2006, as far as I know he is yet to see the funny side .

I forgot to add two things, we named the sender as 'Juan' and that penifresh is tutti-frutti flavoured...

 

[Old McDonald]

Attacked by a dead lioness

Was her name Agnes or Betty?

starts at 3min if you want the short version.