look what i found crawling around the coral rocks...

[archman]

You get a stiff upper lip, literally... read what Walter said. Add a bunch of screaming to that during the first 10 minutes after initial contact with the chaetae.

Fire worms stories are entertaining. The mustache one's my favorite.

 

[sea_dragon]

she may have put the palm of her hand down... i am sure that isn't a threat... but i wouldn't move around with it

 

[sea_dragon]

picture the fool running around grabbing his nose would be quite funny to see....

 

[Walter]

She swam up to me with it in her hand. I snatched it out and let it float to the bottom, neither of us were stung. It was a year or two later I was stung.

 

[Walter]

picture the fool running around grabbing his nose would be quite funny to see....

Yes, but not so funny if he went into cardiac arrest................

 

[sea_dragon]

She swam up to me with it in her hand. I snatched it out and let it float to the bottom, neither of us were stung. It was a year or two later I was stung.

ouch.... i see you speak the true pain..... i am so glad i didn't pick it up.... thats scary.... i was thinking of a catipilar... i know some of them are poisonous.... so i wanted to id it...before i would handle it...

 

[sea_dragon]

Yes, but not so funny if he went into cardiac arrest................

yeah i know... there is alway a consequence with a jackass movie stunt...... he best be happy he didn't die.... i always say... respect what you don't know cause ignorance can be deadly...

 

[Jim Ernst]

WOW!!!! good info walter, i never would have imagined a innocent looking thig like that could send you into cardiac arrest plus the burns and pain, that is one VERY NASTY CREATURE!!!!!!!!

 

[MoonWrasse]

So I'm a bit ignorant here - What exactly happens when you use one of these guys as a mustache (or when you touch 'em anyway)?

You automatically become a Darwin award contestant

 

[sea_dragon]

WOW!!!! good info Walter, i never would have imagined a innocent looking thig like that could send you into cardiac arrest plus the burns and pain, that is one VERY NASTY CREATURE!!!!!!!!

it is a creature that literally demands respect.... respect me or else.... it is a very touchy topic... when it come to molesting a bearded fire worm