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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Kinda wild how people that know their mushrooms could just go into the woods and get a highly effective poison. I'm surprised mushroom murders aren't more common

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I feel like the difficulty in poisoning someone is not obtaining the poison in the first place but the delivery and getting away with it

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Hmm this person knew the victim, had a motive, and was really into mycology, and the autopsy had signs of poisoning from a rare mushroom…

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good deniability though.
Be publicly into micology and commonly collect mushrooms to cook when you have guests over.
Only issue would be to somehow plausably not poison yourself to death. Maybe taking little enough you survive.

And take care you aren't quite known as fully competent, spread the air of knowledge without any solid proof or association.
I'll look like you were a sham and amateur overestimating themselves.

Or just accidentally run them over with a car.

[–] Mistakes@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I guess manslaughter does have a smaller sentence than murder 1

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Shitty job.
She lied, behaved irrationally, couldn't get her story straight ahead of time, scenario too implausible.

You gotta admit fault, hate yourself for killing everyone. Buying poisonous mushrooms is implausible, admit you got them yourself right away, admit accidentally killing them. Swear to never touch mushrooms again.

And find a better excuse for not poisoning yourself, noone individually prepares mushroom sauce per person.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I typically don't broadcast my hobbies and my friends wouldn't speak with the police as a general police

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I mean, anyone reading this thread right now has enough information to know that this thing is deadly, so you don’t need to be into mycology to find a way to weaponize it since it can easily be mistaken as edible.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could always shoot a ricin dart from an umbrella gun. 🤷‍♂️

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Just 3d print it, I guess.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Here I made you some mushroom pasta!

[–] Red_October@piefed.world 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I mean, you can also just walk into a hardware store. Or the cleaning isle of your grocery store.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Where is the style in that? Where is the panache?

Everybody is going to remember the mushroom murderer, nobody is going to remember some bleach boy.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, but with a mushroom there is a natural explanation or may not be as obvious as "someone fed this guy bleach".

People will eat a mushroom pizza if you give it to them

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but usually unless the person is getting into mushroom picking the cops tend to suspect it's the person in their life that goes mushroom picking

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

You could just not tell them.

[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 months ago

I'm probably in the minority on this particular post. But this would NOT kill me.

Ew mushrooms. I'd pick them all off and have a pile of poison on my plate's edge.

Assuming nothing leached out.

I don't fully understand my hatred, but mushrooms do not belong in food. My only exception so far, and I'll try most things once, is wood ear mushrooms, which give me seaweed vibes and are just sort of chewy/crunchy.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 2 months ago

Yet another reason I won't eat mushrooms. Thanks for the added explanation I can give!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Well I'm already in a murderous mood, it's probably best I talk to as fewer people as possible.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

There are some that only cause death up to two weeks after ingestion. So just make some soup ig

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

You would need to know how to id a destroying Angel and then somehow put in someones food without them immediately identified as suspicious. Also it causes specific symptoms too, and likely would ask questions of a strange mushroom

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe they are and we just don't know it because they're so effective

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago