SURVIVAL: A Provoked Attack

Thursday, August 7, 2025

A Provoked Attack:

[The reasons don’t seem unclear to me.]

Today, friend-of-the-site Chris D. passed along with the latest in fucking around and finding out. Hunter Asher Watkins was fatally gored by a South African buffalo he had been hunting.

Local residents call the buffalo species found in the area, Cape buffalo, the “Black Death” because to their reputation for causing approximately 200 deaths annually and for claiming more game hunters’ lives than lions, rhinos or crocodiles.

Perhaps folks should consider just leaving the buffalo alone.

Link: https://www.irishstar.com/news/millionaire-big-game-hunter-gored-35684171

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What a great idea.  Only kill what you can eat or “create” (impossible).

And while we are at it, let’s remind the Yellowstone tourists, and others, to leave the “fluffy cows” alone too.  They are bigger, faster, and more irratible than the worst “Karen” you know.

Stop nominating yourself for a  “Darwin award”.  You’re ineligible unless your over 18 and still reproducing.

Argh!

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SURVIVAL: Thinking about a fall in the shower at home; not every survival tip is about surviving in the wilderness

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Just got out of the shower and while I was in there, I thought what if I fell.

Normally, I always have my iwatch on but not in the shower. Often, I’m not alone at home but today I am alone and no one is expected back until 6 or 7pm.

So, if you don’t mind, when I’m showering and alone in the house, I’ll text a “safety buddy” that I’m going in and coming out.

Seems like a rare occurrence, but but then I think of my summertime neighbor whose first husband died alone going into their basement when he slipped and fell.

Or, OTOH, I just won’t shower if alone in the house.

Or, to be really safe, just never shower again.

Laugh! Silly things I think about. 

YMMV

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