local to me - killed by cassowary

[id10t]

https://www.gainesville.com/news/20190413/cassowary-kills-man-at-farm-near-alachua

[Arizona_928]

31 mph...

I would so be dead too.

[Jim Richards]

Yet another critter from Australia that can kill ya.

[A930Rocket]

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?!?!

[id10t]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

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 ....

[dewolf]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Strange looking bird.



Engaged for 20 years?!?!

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

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

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?!?!

And he was 75!

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

[looneybin]

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

[HardDrive]

Closest thing we have to a velociraptor on earth today.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by looneybin

He died doing what he loved?

Why do people always say that stupid line

"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?

[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by looneybin

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

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.

[CurtEgerer]

.............

[cairns]

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.....

[looneybin]

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

[Clint Lando]

Originally Posted by looneybin

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

[vash]

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.

[996AE]

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

Wife said he died doing what he loved.

Life is full of choices.

[David]

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.

[David]

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

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by 996AE

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

Wife said he died doing what he loved.

Life is full of choices.

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.