Stalker is forever coming across world news stories involving people out picking mushrooms in the wild.
They are forever getting into scrapes or uncovering the weirdest things. If it ain't dead bodies, it's secreted luxury super cars. This past month through up 2 stories highlighting the weirdness that is the life of the mushroom hunter. In Spain, a couple out hunting 'shrooms in the Pyrenees came across a shoe box. Rather than ignore it, they opened it up to discover a macabre sight – several dead foetuses!
But an even grizzlier (but less grisly) mushroom hunter story caught Stalker’s eye this month from Anchorage, Alaska:
"A Seward man says he holds no hard feelings toward a grizzly sow that attacked his companion. Roger Long, 76, helped fend off a grizzly that attacked Jenne Danzl, 54. He says they got too close to the bears in the animals' own home.
Long and Danzl on Friday were picking mushrooms in a burned-over area 50 yards from Skilak Lake on the Kenai Peninsula. They were about 20 yards apart when Danzl saw fresh bear scat. Long says that a few moments later, he heard Danzl scream.
He looked up and saw two 2-year-old cubs, plus the sow pouncing on his companion. Long says he grabbed a stick and yelled at the bears, which took off.
Back at their camp, they realized Danzl had been bitten on the left side of her rib cage and had other punctures. She was treated at Central Peninsula Hospital and released about five hours later."
A case of "if you go down to the woods today"….mushroom hunter beware!
