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lol if this really happened
Topic Started: Monday 28-07-2008, 06:18 (228 Views)
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ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FUCKS
A damaged cactus falls onto the man who had harmed it, killing him.

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In southern arizona they have the sorts of cacti that have great arms like you see on old westerns, called saguaros. they're quite protected by various laws and live to be hundreds of years old.

The story goes that some guy was out with his shotgun shooting signs and such. Well, he decided to blast some cacti too. As he stood within a few feet, perhaps 10, of a giant old cactus, he blasted a few holes in its giant trunk. It gave way and fell right on top of him, crushing and impaling him with nail-like spikes. He died, being alone and unable to crawl away.


Origins: People do stupid, unthinking things. Most of the time, they get away with them . . . .

In 1982, roommates David Grundman and James Joseph Suchochi decided pack up the guns and go wandering in the desert two miles north of Arizona 74, just west of Lake Pleasant. One or both of them was struck with the brilliant notion of taking pot shots at saguaro they found growing there. Maybe it was the Devil in them. Maybe it had to do with the eerily manlike shapes these monstrous plants can grow into.

Grundman shot a small saguaro in the trunk so many times that it thudded to the ground. "The first one was easy!" he cried, according to Suchochi. He next chose a specimen which stood 26 feet high and was estimated to be a hundred years old. Before the ringing in his ears had stopped, a four-foot spiny arm, severed by the blast, fell on Grundman, crushing him.

Grundman's demise is chronicled in "Saguaro," a song by the Texas rock band, the Austin Lounge Lizards.

There are other stories in urban lore about Nature's children taking revenge on their human tormentors (the dynamite dog and Gucci kangaroo, for instance), but this is the only one where a plant strikes back. Then again, the saguaro is one very special plant.

Saguaros are tall cactuses that can reach heights of 60 feet and grow only in the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States. For the first 75 years of their lives, they have only huge central trunks; their distinctive outstretched and upwards-bent arms develop later, if at all. Their usual lifespan is 150 to 200 years, though some have lived to be 300.

Oh, one other fact about saguaros; they can weigh up to 8 tons. As Grundman found out.

Barbara "cactus attack" Mikkelson

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Last updated: 20 January 2007
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/saguaro.asp
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Fermicelli
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Death by cactus doesn't sound like a nice way to go out.

Memo to self, do not ever shoot cacti.
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Sandyoso
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Wow. That's pretty intense.
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Sinister Zombie
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Should have used a flamethrower the amature.
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Darmikau
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Those darn variables.
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Monday 28-07-2008, 13:28
Should have used a flamethrower the amature.
Crushed and impaled by a flaming cactus > crushed and impaled by a cactus?
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Omgarm
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Troetelbeertje
Cacti, cleaning up the gene pool since this fad was thought of.
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PyroLeprechaun
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Never thought of cacti as dangerous >_>
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Kami
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Old Men
Fuck... and I thought falling in my mom's rose bush was bad...
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MLWW
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Dutch Bastard
Never underestimate it :3
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Phazorn
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This guy totally used my shoulder to block the recoil from his shotgun while I supposedly fired at a block of wood once.

It hurt.


I was like 13.
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Sinister Zombie
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Darmikau
Monday 28-07-2008, 14:16
Sinister Zombie
Monday 28-07-2008, 13:28
Should have used a flamethrower the amature.
Crushed and impaled by a flaming cactus > crushed and impaled by a cactus?
For the purpose of exterminating the wasted products of the gene pool is a graphic and humiliating way to make an example of them and their obvious foolishness it does.
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