local to me - killed by cassowary
 

31 mph...

I would so be dead too.

Yet another critter from Australia that can kill ya. :eek:

Strange looking bird.

This caught my eye:

......the man was her fiance and that they had been together about 20 years.

Engaged for 20 years?!?!

Wife and I lived together for 8 years, officially asked her to marry and got hitched in 4 months.

Maybe he said "I'll marry you when Hell freezes over" and she took it as a proposal and was just waiting ....

Me and my gal been together 33 years. Engaged for 32...lol

And he was 75!

Sad story but "he died doing what he loved."

He died doing what he loved?
I don’t think he loved trying to keep his intestines inside his body cavity after being gashed open.

Why do people always say that stupid line

The skydiver died going what he loved?
No love plummeting to your death

Closest thing we have to a velociraptor on earth today.

"A woman at the property off Alachua County Road 235 south of Alachua said the man was her fiance and that they had been together about 20 years.

“He was doing what he loved,” she said, adding that she did not want to talk anymore."

You place your bet and take your chances, every time someone jumps out of an airplane they know it might be their last jump.

known to attack people and animals if they feel threatened.

“The cassowary is rightfully considered the most dangerous bird in the world! Each 3-toed foot has a dagger-like claw on the inner toe that is up to 4 inches

It was his choice to raise exotic birds and he knew full well this bird could kill him in a fraction of a second... but he did it anyway... why do you suppose he did that?

As opposed to withering and rotting away in a nursing home for 5 years with minimal time outside and with your family and eventually dying from a bacterial infection, AKA passing peacefully with his family by his side at the local seniors home?

The last few minutes of life is seldom peaceful regardless of the mechanism by which you die, I imagine.

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I've seen them in the wild a few times. Pretty amazing bird. The father raises the kids while Mom runs around like a cougar in heat.....

It just seems like a silly statement to me
He may have loved what he did, but probably not those last few moments

maybe he loved Jurassic park

Another silly statement that gets me.

Razor like.

Right. With enough force, a 2x4 would cleave open a man. Those claws are certainly menacing, but hardly razors.

That’s an awful way to go.

Man, never left his home died on his couch watching TV.

Wife said he died doing what he loved.

Life is full of choices.

Why would someone have one of these.

I've gotten some private tours of the Houston Zoo when the company I work for made donations and I clearly recall my host pointed out the Cassoway as the most dangerous wild animal in the zoo.

I also got kissed by Cali the seal on one of these zoo visits.

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yep.
Most people have at least some risk in their profession.
I spent almost 30 years working in a profession that at one time was ranked in the top three most dangerous.
We managed over the years to make that profession one of the safest now, but if I had gotten killed back then people would probably have said I had it coming or should have known. Bottom line was I knew the risks. I managed what risk I could, and accepted the rest.



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I’m Actually getting tired of the overplayed “Darwin” thing.

There isn’t a single one of us that has not done a potentially life threatening event in our past.

Yesterday I hopped off a three foot wall with my mtn bike. At the moment, i was doing something I loved. My jacked up retarded landing quickly had me reconsidering my hobby. I did not “ stick the landing”. I didn’t crash, but let’s just say, next time I’m taking the bunny slope that goes around.

Race cars, bikes, motorcycles, skateboards. Big wave surfed all around the world. Dive, sail (Blue water) raced boats, water ski, drive to work on 405 FWY.

Life is a risk.

We are all gonna die.

Get use to that idea.

People who take unnecessary risks have a higher likelihood for injury or death.
If they do it before they are old enough to reproduce, they take themselves out of the gene pool. Natural selection.
People who do risky things at an older age don't necessarily fall into the same category but they can still serve as an example for the rest.

What is considered "unnecessary" is debatable.
I went into a profession that was known as neing "dangerous" but I considered it a necessary risk. The compensation was very good, the opportunities were very good, it was worth the risks because it allowed me to provide well for my family.
Now if at the time I had done something risky outside of work that could have prevented me from providing for my family, well that wouldn't be very smart at all. Unnecessary.

BTW I never said that natural selection was a BAD thing.

Didn't Elvis die on the toilet?
Did he die doing what he loved?

Let's see how can I win a Darwin Award this year???

How about a dangerous pet? Something large, that eats small mammals, and has razor sharp claws???

Snakes, crocodiles? Nah too common - and they are SLUGGISH in the winter...

Oh I know! - bonus points for a species as close as possible to a predatory dinosaur!!

Still an overplayed hand.

90 percent (I just made up that number) of deaths are from a bad decision. From keeping a dangerous pet, eating too much, drinking too much, too sedentary of a lifestyle, to enjoying a risky activity.

Death. I just think it’s low hanging fruit to throw out that Darwin thing. It was funny for the first decade.

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No mention of putting the bird down as they would in a bear or dog attack.

I bet it tastes like chicken.

My Dad died on the toilet, :eek:

I dunno about that. The tips of those nails looks like they could be ground down to very sharp edges.