View Full Version : This is why you never feed a moray eel, amazing vid!
Garbage
04-01-2007, 1:22 AM
Warning for those who are squeemish!
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/blog.php?blogid=84
ouch...i didnt know moray eels were capable of doing things like that.
First of all, feeding predators out of your hand is just asking for trouble, this guy was lucky the eel only went for his finger. Second, feeding animals in their natural habitat processed sausages I find rather disturbing!
Corbin
04-01-2007, 3:05 AM
Whos next?
captmicha
04-01-2007, 3:13 AM
So that's why they told me not to pet my piranhas at the fish store!
The bad thing is that he probably never learned his lesson and thinks that his toe thumb is "all good".
This reminds me yesterday about an article I was reading about Australian authorities having to section off and guard a whale carcass that floated to the top that a shark was feeding on because last time it happened, people had actually climbed on top of it and were surfing it.
Another time I was watching this show about when dolphins attack. The idiots were jumping in the water and feeding the poor thing and trying to ride it.
In another thing this woman was diving and started petting a whale with her calf and the whale dragged her down into the water about a dozen time but didn't kill her. Did injure her though.
Yeah I went on but this pisses me off. The bad thing is that when this kind of stupid stuff is pulled on land, the animals are shot.
bkw1982
04-01-2007, 5:12 AM
well thts wht u get for feedin it finger like food. but there are other things worst then losing a thumb....ahem :rolleyes:
Rbishop
04-01-2007, 5:22 AM
Dumb.
Aaron89
04-01-2007, 6:36 AM
he was lucky very lukcy
DarkSoul
04-01-2007, 7:04 AM
Not having a thumb seriously would suck.... sure he deserved what happened to him, But I for one, would rather live without my thumb, than to have one of my toes cut out, and grated back on to my hand.
What kind of deal is that? lose a toe to replace a thumb?
Hahaha when my uncle did night diving with the british SAS they warned him that if he swam into an eel to turn his lights off or it would see its refelection in his goggles and try attack it. he aslo told me 1 person didnt listen and needed to have his nose reconstructed from mush and cartlidge.
man, that dude was really stupid.
hrmm maybe if he had gloves his thumb might have had a better chance. my gloves saved me a couple of times when diving.
DarkSoul
04-01-2007, 9:19 AM
hrmm maybe if he had gloves his thumb might have had a better chance. my gloves saved me a couple of times when diving.
What difference does it make when your dangling meaty, tasty, finger sized sausages in front of a fish.... his fingers and those sausages look exactly alike.
Naturally the eel was thinkin' that guy had 10 yummy sausages, and he was holdin out on the eel.
chaibill
04-01-2007, 9:52 AM
that guy is stupid he will most likely do it again
TimmyB42386
04-01-2007, 10:37 AM
haha, the owner of the lfs down the street from me got his hand bit by his 5 foot moray, didn't lose anything but he was bandaged for about a month.
danzig
04-01-2007, 12:31 PM
overconfidence + underestimation= OUCH!
musho3210
04-01-2007, 12:40 PM
luckily it was his finger, not his 'other' sausage looking thing that is on his anatomy, if you know what i mean
Garbage
04-01-2007, 1:04 PM
Biteing aside, that moray is really a great looking fish!!!!!
lwooters
04-01-2007, 2:32 PM
What an idiot... he must've gotten distracted by that gay background music.
Kyohti
04-01-2007, 6:12 PM
Long vid... I'm sitting here thinking: 'fingers feeding finger-shaped food sticks to large predatorial fish ... this can only end badly... this can only end badly...'
*keeps watching*
He's getting fiesty...
*sees it happen*
Why am I not surprised? It's awful... but I'm not surprised.
"Oh lookit... a WILD ANIMAL... let's give it food shaped like BODYPARTS and CUDDLE IT like it was a TEDDY BEAR." *smacks forehead* People can be so dumb.
*sees end of film*
.... Ewww. Well, that was interesting. ^_^;;
mee-mee
04-01-2007, 6:44 PM
and that is why they banned chumming in florida off of sanibel lighthouse beach because of swimmers being attacked by lemon sharks
Nice find garbage. That was an awsome vid. What an amazing fish. That does look so cool to have a fish like that swimming all around you. But then there's the teeth on that thing. Foolish? Yeah. The outcome says it all. But he can say, "I swam with an amazing animal" and, "would you like to see my video?"
He must've known the danger going into this creatures world. If he didn't he's more foolish than I thought or he was willing to take a large gamble.
Q
chaibill
04-01-2007, 8:20 PM
What an idiot... he must've gotten distracted by that gay background music.
yeah like in the military comercials on TV oh except the music isn't gay or maybe it is not aloud to ask or tell
Shagmaster
04-01-2007, 8:47 PM
yeah like in the military comercials on TV oh except the music isn't gay or maybe it is not aloud to ask or tell
LOL!
As for the vid, OUCH!!!:eek:
He deserved it.
Cool post, thanks!
Tourettes
04-01-2007, 9:03 PM
Finger, hotdog. Whats the difference?
Shelby_Tempo_GT
04-02-2007, 11:47 AM
hrmm maybe if he had gloves his thumb might have had a better chance. my gloves saved me a couple of times when diving.
I was thinking that too.
Don't shark divers usually wear chain mail gloves?
Kyohti
04-02-2007, 12:04 PM
I was thinking that too.
Don't shark divers usually wear chain mail gloves?
He wasn't shark-diving... he was eel diving. :P
Still, I agree. Shoulda wore gloves!!!
Shelby_Tempo_GT
04-02-2007, 12:36 PM
He wasn't shark-diving... he was eel diving. :P
Still, I agree. Shoulda wore gloves!!!
teeth are teeth and I'm not putting my hands anywhere near teeth that eat meat unless I have protection (please, no zipper jokes)
Pallen81
04-02-2007, 1:12 PM
what a moron
I work with moray eels at adventure aquarium. we feed them with a long pole. you never stick your hands in the tank. they are some of the stupidist animals at the aquarium. cool to look at, but dumber then dirt.
what a moron!
toddnbecka
04-03-2007, 3:30 AM
A friend who owns an lfs was teasing a small moray in his store one day. He didn't lose any fingers, but it took weeks for the bite to heal. He was relatively lucky...
Garbage
04-21-2007, 3:55 PM
A friend who owns an lfs was teasing a small moray in his store one day. He didn't lose any fingers, but it took weeks for the bite to heal. He was relatively lucky...
Wow a moray in a lfs, pretty cool!
Blueiz
04-21-2007, 4:03 PM
Wow, all I have to say....
SHK_ATK
04-21-2007, 8:25 PM
Wow a moray in a lfs, pretty cool!
we have morays in our LFS too. But they have in written Warning I Bite. Maybe some one should of told this dude that. Personally I would of not had them take my toe that makes it from weird to weirder.
LittlePuff
04-21-2007, 11:34 PM
Looks like he was teasing/taunting the eel with food for awhile before he got bit. The food also resembled a finger, not a bright guy.
J double R
04-22-2007, 12:52 AM
one word:
DUMMY.
here's your sign, bud.
Mr.Mexi
04-30-2007, 12:06 PM
It was cool but i think it was weird to have 4 fingers and a toe one one hand he was very lucky
Shelby_Tempo_GT
05-01-2007, 10:52 AM
Looks like he was teasing/taunting the eel with food for awhile before he got bit. The food also resembled a finger, not a bright guy.
without trying to be crude... it also looked like something else you wouldn't want that eel to take away
mike_nikki
05-01-2007, 12:19 PM
without trying to be crude... it also looked like something else you wouldn't want that eel to take away
Lol yeah, that wouldn't have been as easy to replace...........
It takes all kinds to make the world go round...including dumbasses
The pop of the thumb comming of was a erky sound, but it looked like he had the hotdog at an angle. And the Eel came the other direction and took his thumb.