Seriously, what is wrong with people? Tourist Smashes, Kills, Eats Octopus Only To Find Out

[Firebrand Gary]

A tourist killed and ate an octopus he found while on vacation with his family in Greece, only to discover the rare six-limbed "hexapus" was the second ever found.

Labros Hydras, a 49-year-old mechanical engineer from Washington, D.C., was snorkeling in Greece when he saw a six-legged octopus at Papa Nero beach on the Pelion peninsula, according to the United Kingdom's South West News Service.

He pulled the creature from the water and smashed it against a rock to kill it. When he took it to a local tavern to be cooked, the chef refused. Hydras then fried it up on his own, eating it with a slice of tomato and lemon, before he researched and discovered the octopus was actually an extremely rare, six-limbed hexapus.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/tourist-smashes-kills-octopus_n_3660231.html

[Pelican]

1. Never had octopus?

Like calamari except I think a bit springier...

[dipsydoodle]

10. Chewy

I like calamari.

[Bay Boy]

2. Wait a minute? The bastard...

...brought the octopus to a a tavern and asked the chef to cook it? That's beyond acceptable behavior.
Maybe I'll try that the next I see a road kill squirrel.

[Brickbat]

5. Common in some places.

[elehhhhna]

9. it's greece, it's seafood, it's normal

[Aristus]

3. Fuckbrain...

"Hey! Looky here whut Ah kilt! Kilt it m'self! Ain't Ah tough?"

Leave the fishing to people who know what they're catching, dipshit...

[JimDandy]

18. Yes. I would have been worried that the six legs

meant a mutation from something bad in the environment and would never have eaten it. I'd have hauled it in to show to someone though.

[villager]

4. Everything is objectified, and utilitarian, to homo "sapiens"

In particular, those homo "sapiens" who've been allowed to have power over all the others.

[1-Old-Man]

7. I've got the best dog in the world, but he dam sure would have eaten it too if he could.

it ain't just us. Oh, and I understand that we have a choice, but the dog gets all the dog food he wants too but he'd still eat the hextapus if it had the misfortune of getting in front of him.

[villager]

11. I'm not sure any dog I've had would've dashed the Octopus' brains against a rock....

...though one, short-lived friendly fella we had seemed to have a penchant for killing possums.

I suspect though that a world where dogs where the top species would have many more places and species "left alone," than the current one run by humans.

[1-Old-Man]

16. True that, plus my dog doesn't have a regular income and a college education

nor does he can he order anything he wants off a menu just about any time he cares to do so. But the point is taken, we are sometimes brainless oafs, as uncaring of life as mosquitoes.

[Bay Boy]

6. Was there any reason for the tourist to...

...know that this rare octopus was in the area? Do people commonly harvest octopi in this area?
Did the chef (a chef at a tavern, really?) know it was rare? Was that why he refused?

[The Straight Story]

8. Maybe we need to invent google scuba masks that can identify the 1 or 2 species in the ocean

Hell, I wouldn't know a rare crawdad if it pinched me, they all tend to look alike

[petronius]

13. I would pay top dollar for a scuba mask like that, especially if it could

measure on the fly, list the relevant regulations, and provide a recipe...

[1-Old-Man]

17. Google will have one invented and on the shelves in days.

an idea is born. What do you get when you mix google glasses with a scuba mask? Bingo! And you called it first, particularly with the offer to pay top dollar.

[Apophis]

12. Must've been an American.

[nolabear]

14. It's tragic about the rarity but he didn't know. People kill and eat seafood all the time.

I happen not to ever eat octopus because they are smart and interesting and I like them a lot. But this man didn't do anything that isn't done every day. Greece works differently and his behavior isn't crazy. I'm very sorry about the loss of the very interesting creature but let's not vilify the man for fishing.

[bunnies]

15. People eat seafood. Shocking, I know.

And Im guessing you dont live near the ocean? People pull things out of the ocean all the time and eat them. Obviously the guy didnt know the creature was rare.

He caught it. He killed it. He ate it. Thats how it works.