Sushi is no joke...

**NoahsMommy** · 02-02-2005, 10:46 AM

Originally posted by dukedogsmom
When people throw all their common sense out the window and do something totally stupid like that, yes they are asking for what they are getting.

Amen to that!!

**micki76** · 02-02-2005, 10:55 AM

Didn't any of his companions know the heimlich maneuver?

**Pit Chick** · 02-02-2005, 11:00 AM

Or how to grab the fish and yank it out?

**Karen** · 02-02-2005, 08:47 PM

Of course we value the human being's life. It is just the absurdity of the whole thing that makes people poke fun. Of all the dumb things friends of mine have done (especially in college) when drinking, I am glad none of them died in this pointless a manner.

I do not know how well-spread world-wide teaching of the Heimlich maneuver is, nor if it is well-known in Managua. Not everyone gets the education we do.

We are sure the people who were with him feel terrible, and did not realize what was happening. They will probably always feel guilty for not stopping him, or helping him. They probably though he was kidding around, and just pretending. One problem with choking to death is you cannot say "Help me, I'm choking!" If you could, that would mean you had enough air able to pass in and out of your lungs, and are probably okay.

**Corinna** · 02-02-2005, 08:52 PM

Doing the himlich probly would not have helped ad pulling the fish back would have caused gills and fins to open wider and ripped his esopgous more. This nut was done for from the mintue he opened his mouth to insert the fish.
I vote for a Darwin for him too.

**Pit Chick** · 02-03-2005, 08:26 AM

Originally posted by Corinna
This nut was done for from the mintue he opened his mouth to insert the fish.

Someone forgot to tell him it's "foot to mouth syndrome", not fish to mouth.

**catnapper** · 02-03-2005, 08:42 AM

I agree... what a moron! I can see the scene now. He had a little alcohol in him. He was trying to impress his friends. He was feeling cocky and saw the fish... hmmm "This will make 'em laugh!"

Well, ha ha, we're laughing all right at your arrogance and stupidity.

I remember some of the things the guys I knew at 22 did. It was stupid then and is stupid now. Alcohol and stupidity are a deadly combination. If they were not drinking on that boat then I'll swallow a live fish myself.