MonTemplar's Journal: Warning - don't read this whilst eating!

From BBC News :

The mysterious cause of a young Australian man's meningitis was finally found to be a dinner of raw slugs.

He had eaten two slugs for a dare five weeks before falling ill.

But slugs harbour Angiostrongylus cantonensis - also known as the rat lungworm - which can cause the potentially fatal brain inflammation.

Experts writing in the Medical Journal of Australia say that if people do want to eat slugs, they should cook them first, in order to kill the parasite.

It took five months before he was fit enough to go back to college. Figures - a student. :-)

I hear...

[curtisk]

that they are delightful in a balsamic dressing as well. After being cooked of course :D

Yep, you're right.....figures it was a college student :)

Well...

[Some Woman]

I hope the dare at least involved a large cash prize.

Re:Well...

[MonTemplar]

I hope the dare at least involved a large cash prize.

Well, according to this report [news.com.au], the bet was for... $20. Oh, and one of his mates also took part, but vomited shortly after, losing the bet but avoiding illness.

Kids, eh? *shrug*

MT.

In college..

[Rudy Rodarte]

One of the guys on my floor was escorted to his room by members of the fraternity he was pledging. The frat guy had a plastic bag full of gold fish in his hand. As they walked into his room, the frat guy kept saying "Are you ready? Are you ready?"
After a few minutes, there were no fish to be found in that guy's room.
Good Times...for the rest of us.