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Ouch, lol. Love how everybody is taking pics rather than helping him.
Mrs Tillydog did similar while we were on holiday. It was both extremely funny and not so, all at the same time.
Having removed a cactus from my bed whilst drunk (someone's idea of a joke) I can tell you, they are particularly unpleasant if the barbs are left in for any length of time (a couple of days in my case due to circumstances). So the cyclist has my sympathies.
I'm not really laughing much. No experience of cactus but hawthorne and sea urchin have both blighted fun times.
At least I wasn't on the bike with the urchins so I didn't suffer being in pain with multiple punctures in the tyres as well as me.
EDIT:
I've seen a kitesurfer dragged across a bed of those really huge Red Sea urchins. The noise of the spines snapping as we cut his wetsuit off was chilling.
I also saw a French lass windsurfing in a bikini massively face plant into a dead coral head at low tide and pretty much every part of her front that wasn't covered by her harness had a spine in it. 🙁
A cactus attacked me on Gran Canaria last year when I fell off my mountain bike.
Evil bastard things, should be shot.
Brambles are bad enough! Poor sod
Should have worn a spine protector.
I've had sea urchin spines in my heel, it took a chiropodist three sessions of shaving away the skin to get them all out.
An army cadet died of septicaemia after falling into a gorse bush and getting so many infections that his body couldn't cope. I'd have thought cactus man would need some strong antibiotics.
martinhutch
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Should have worn a spine protector.
very good.....
An army cadet died of septicaemia after falling into a gorse bush and getting so many infections that his body couldn’t cope. I’d have thought cactus man would need some strong antibiotics.
Cattle and sheep don't (as far as I know) scratch themselves on cactus as much as they do on gorse.
I think he's still due a Savlon shower though, just for extra stinginess...
Should have worn a spine protector
*applause*
A cactus attacked me on Gran Canaria last year when I fell off my mountain bike
A cack tie with the OP story.
A cactus attacked me on Gran Canaria last year when I fell off my mountain bike
Ended up with a prickly pair?
Ended up with a prickly pair?
Fnarr, fnarr
There's also this
What is the logic of the elbow / wrist guards there?
Reminded me of my sis when we were kids, fell off her bike in the front street and ran home yowling, but the passage down the side of the house was dark and had the recently thrown out Xmas tree lying in it, the scream was blood curdling