1 Name: Xion !8/MtyDeTiY : 2011-09-11 14:12 ID:FVt2M6Bf (Image: 640x480 jpg, 240 kb) [Del]
A couple are at death’s door after having decided to dine on fugu they caught and prepared themselves, liver and all.
The 68-year-old Nagasaki prefecture man caught a fugu in a local bay himself, and upon returning home made it into sashimi, liver and all.
Together with his 65-year-old wife, the couple tucked into the meal; an hour later, his wife’s mouth and extremities had gone numb, and soon after the same happened to him.
Both were conveyed to hospital, and the poison took full effect, resulting in complete paralysis and an inability to breathe. Both were left unconscious in critical condition. o_0
The Poison in Which is Pufferfish has active neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin which paralyses victims causing asphyxiation. There is no known antidote, and treatment largely consists of putting victims on life support until the poison wears off.
Fugu cuisine has a notorious reputation even in Japan, where it still maintains niche popularity in spite of regular fatalities.
Restaurants are tightly regulated and chefs must be highly trained, but even so the serving of the liver, the most poisonous organ in the fish but also one of the most celebrated, is banned in restaurants. < Yeah its not too smart to eat the liver..... “Why would you deliberately eat the part which the fish concentrates most of its poison in?”
To become Hagoromo Gitsune. if you don't get it watch Nurarihyon ^_^
However, private individuals are free to prepare and dine on toxic poisons as much as they please, and many still do – in spite of the fact captive farmed non-poisonous fugu are now available.
In Nagasaki prefecture alone, from 2001 to 2008 there were 22 fugu poisoning incidents, 6 of which have been fatal, although this incident is the first since 2009. Prefectural authorities warn that “we would prefer people absolutely avoid attempting to prepare fugu simply at home.”
2 Name: Xion !8/MtyDeTiY : 2011-09-11 14:13 ID:FVt2M6Bf (Image: 476x551 png, 63 kb) [Del]
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3 Name: Xion !8/MtyDeTiY : 2011-09-11 14:14 ID:FVt2M6Bf [Del]
Looks tasty though rite? ^_^
4 Name: Kyoko : 2011-09-11 14:31 ID:e50oryiZ [Del]
That's why you should have a professional do it. I hope they're okay.
5 Name: Renyoj !mcynYIJzvA : 2011-09-11 18:53 ID:1ZVl8BQ9 [Del]
wow... shit id do it. i drank an assload of habusake when i was in the navy, cant be much worst!
6 Name: Kaori !!tCuPexyb : 2011-09-11 18:54 ID:PSEA7yPQ [Del]
OH ITS A PUFFER FISH? oh durrrrrr. =,=" i was readin this whole thing thinking "wut kinda fish is dat?" but then.....well anyways. those oldies bettur be okay, we need oldies to make the werld go 'round. :D
7 Name: l3v1te : 2011-09-11 20:44 ID:pcK0aUmT [Del]
its like that episode of duck dodger, hahahah stupid duck. hope they make a full recovery
8 Name: cfletcher : 2011-09-14 21:42 ID:gurrDe0Z [Del]
to me thats common sence even pro chiefs make mistake y risk it urself
