Woman Poses with Octopus on Face, Ends Up in Hospital

Mother Nature has a simple rule for humans: “Live and let live!

However, we always assume that we are way smarter than all the other living beings, and hence, pay a heavy price for our arrogance!

Recently a lady from the state of Washington decided to put an octopus on her face hoping to win a prize for a funny picture. Instead, it earned her a lot of pain and a trip to the emergency room. Jamie Bisceglia told Fox News that she was participating in a fishing derby in the South Sound near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge last Friday when a group of men in the competition snagged an octopus. She recalled asking the men for the juvenile Pacific octopus saying, “I’d like to eat it for dinner.

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Moreover, she asked them to take a photo of her with the sea creatures intending to enter the snap in the derby's photography contest. Bisceglia put the octopus on her face and posed. At first, it grabbed her with its suckers, and then it did something she didn't expect. It bit her on the face. “And then all of a sudden its beak entered my chin and my eyes popped open wide and they could all see that I was getting attacked, and the photos are taken at the moment it was attacking me,” she said. When she finally pulled the octopus off, she said, the pain was intense, and the bleeding lasted for a half-hour. Bisceglia said the octopus was a smaller juvenile version of a giant Pacific octopus that has a powerful beak used to break and eat crabs, clams, and mussels. It's their bite contains a poisonous venom to immobilize their prey. Bisceglia says that venom left her in incredible pain. But as the owner of South Sound Salmon Sisters, she kept fishing for two more days before she finally went to the emergency room. Days later, she said, she's still hurting, and her face and throat remain swollen. She also had a rash on her chin to show for her bid to grab a memorable photo. Bisceglia said doctors told her the swelling could linger for months. "I have to take tons of medicine, three different heavy doses of antibiotics and I’m taking milk thistle, which is supposed to help with the venom," she said. She said the painful experience taught her a valuable lesson about handling a live octopus. Let's hope that people learn from this incident and stop playing games with Nature!

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