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Finally... => General Discussion => Topic started by: Moogie on July 16, 2010, 10:24:55 am

Title: Boy cancels Fish: Attacked by Carp Marksman
Post by: Moogie on July 16, 2010, 10:24:55 am

You thought DF Carp were deadly? Phah! They don't even use projectiles.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3054085/Teen-speared-in-chest-by-float.html


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"TEENAGE angler Tom Mitchenall is lucky to be alive after he was speared in the chest — by his own FISHING FLOAT.

Tom, 17, had hooked a large carp and was jostling with the heavy fish when the line snapped sending the slender plastic float "twanging" back at him like an arrow.

Incredibly, the 8in-long plastic dart pierced Tom's chest and embedded itself in his lung which collapsed.

The riverbank "missile" missed his main artery by just an inch. Had it been cut he would have bled to death.

But Tom was rushed to hospital where surgeons removed the float from his chest and drained the fluid on his lung."

Title: Re: Boy cancels Fish: Attacked by Carp Marksman
Post by: smjjames on July 16, 2010, 10:28:25 am

Should have posted this in DF General discussion :)

Edit: nm, spotted the same thing in DF general discussion.

Those carp are still deadly, or trying to be.

Title: Re: Boy cancels Fish: Attacked by Carp Marksman
Post by: Cthulhu on July 16, 2010, 10:29:26 am

Now that Toady's fixing combat, they have to get creative to retain their seat on the throne.

Title: Re: Boy cancels Fish: Attacked by Carp Marksman
Post by: Jackrabbit on July 17, 2010, 04:12:43 am

That is terrifying.

Title: Re: Boy cancels Fish: Attacked by Carp Marksman
Post by: IronyOwl on July 17, 2010, 04:18:45 am

So a fish used the boy's own movements to drive an 8-inch dagger through his lung.

Nope, not terrifying at all. And certainly not ninja fish in there. That'd be silly.

Title: Re: Boy cancels Fish: Attacked by Carp Marksman
Post by: Phmcw on July 17, 2010, 07:57:02 am

I, for one, welcome our carp overlord.