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Walking Sticks - Dangerous or not?
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"marcesent" wrote: "Gary Brady" wrote in message nk.net... marcesent wrote: They're not dangerous at all. As a kid, I grew up hearing these things called "spit devils". Supposedly, they would spit some type of poison into your eye that would be very painful for a long time. I believe that it was my grandmother that burdened me with this tale. For a good part of my life, I recoiled whenever I saw a "spit devil" just because I believed that as a kid. Sometimes old wives tales die hard. Done some more searching - apparently some species do spray(?) some sort of fluid that can burn the eyes (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...ubMed&list_uid s=11150287&dopt=Abstract). Perhaps you just have to get them really, really mad first. Julie Ever had a horned lizard spit blood at you from it's eyes? It's rare, but I did have it happen a couple of times when I was a kid. They play dead too after they do it. It's freaky, and it stains your shirt. G -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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