Topic: Keep this in mind the next time you go golfing...

[SkyFlyer]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/golftee.htm

Claim:   A golfer in the habit of carrying his tee in his mouth while playing holes grows sicker and sicker over the course of a few days and then drops dead. A post-mortem reveals that the golfer had ingested a lethal dose of the pesticide sprayed on the golf course.

Status:   True.

Origins:   Although a few of the details have been changed, this legend is based on real-life incident.

In 1982, Navy Lieutenant George M. Prior, 30, played 36 holes of golf at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. Even before the last hole Prior was complaining of a headache; by nightfall he was feverish and nauseated and had developed a rash. Four days later Prior was in Bethesda Naval Hospital with a 104.5 degree fever, his body covered with blisters. He died ten days later after a toxic substance had burned the skin from 80% of his body and caused his major organs to fail. The toxic substance was determined to be Daconil, an FDA-approved fungicide that had been sprayed on the Army-Navy golf course twice a week. Prior apparently had a hypersensitivity to the chemical used in the fungicide, causing a severe allergic reaction. His widow filed a $20 million lawsuit against the manufacturer, Diamond Shamrock Chemical Company; the lawsuit was eventually settled out of court.

[Ravok]

  Good lord what a horrible way to die.
 I thought they are supposed to put up signs, Notifying people that they had sprayed?

[SkyFlyer]

as bad or worse than getting your head cut off by a pocket knife...


But i mean it is commen sense.... If not for the pesticide then for the parasites that are in the ground... I mean... how stupid can you be? I don't go around sticking things into the ground and then eating the dirt off of it... really...

[Ravok]

  come to think about it one of the first things babys are taught is to NOT put strange things into your mouth.

[interloper]

momma always said that game will kill you     

[TotensBurntCorpse]

Arent Tees used to put your balls on when u drive?

If so then his car was certainly equipt, but why would he then put these tees in his mouth ?

[Sirgod]

I just read that the other Day on Snopes while Looking through there Stories. amazing coincedence.

Stephen

[SkyFlyer]

lol yup

[Just plain old Punisher]

That game takes up way to much space.

[SkyFlyer]

as does kroma... but whos complaining about him? GIVE ME MY GOLF!