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The deadliest animal to humans overall is the mosquito.

The Champawat tiger killed 436 humans. This makes it the deadliest individual animal.

The polar bear is the only known animal will that purposely hunt humans as a food source. Most animals kill humans because they are guarding their territory, protecting themselves, their young, or their herd, or they mistook humans for another prey species.
 
Sharkbait said:
In Germany, it is a crime to detonate nuclear bombs. Punishment ranges from fines up to five years in prison.
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The exact same penalty that applies to 'holocaust denial' in Germany as well.
I know which I'd prefer my neighbors to be doing.

The Curmudgeon said:
The polar bear is the only known animal will that purposely hunt humans as a food source.
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Alligators and crocodiles will happily hunt people, bro.
 
Sylvester Stallone's mom was the worlds most famous rumpologist. Rumpology is in the same sphere of palm reading or old phrenology, but instead of hands or heads they look at someones ass. Momma Stallone could do this via photographs or even over the internet, for a fee of course. There are a few others including a German(iirc) man that requires in-person visits and fondling of the butt. He claims to be blind so it is necessary.

Rumpology is allegedly an obscure practice with a long history but it's more likely that momma Stallone just made it up one day and this niche quackery took off from there.
 
SITHRAK! said:
Alligators and crocodiles will happily hunt people, bro.
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Gutpuke said:
Not alligators as far as I know but crocodiles sure as fuck do. Just look at our old boy Gustave.
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Yes and no. Most crocodilians attack humans because they're encroaching on their territory. However, the saltwater crocodile and the Nile crocodile are the crocodilian species with the highest human death tolls. Between the two of them, the saltwater crocodile is more likely to hunt humans as prey.

So you're right and I stand corrected. The polar bear and the saltwater crocodile are the only animals known to hunt humans as prey.
 
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From The Uncanny Valley said:
The first "game" they ever made was based on betting on horse racing and has no surviving copies
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Someone found a copy of it that has most of the parts except for the video tapes required for it.


Their second game was actually a lightgun game where you had to shoot the clothes off of a woman.
It was loosely remade for the NES as WildGunman but without the stripping

Someone found some of the footage for it last year

 
 
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The Curmudgeon said:
The polar bear is the only known animal will that purposely hunt humans as a food source. Most animals kill humans because they are guarding their territory, protecting themselves, their young, or their herd, or they mistook humans for another prey species.
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Most lions and tigers don't mess around with humans other than for the usual reasons like defense of themselves or territory or feeling their offspring threatened, but there are some big cats who do develop a taste for human. Contrary to the meme about them being sick or weak, a lot of these man-eaters are huge and very intelligent for their species.

Like these amazingly badass lions. They've had SIX movies made about them.

Their problem wasn't that they were incapable of hunting or killing, but that their teeth were rotten so soft human flesh was what they could still eat. While reputed to have killed over a hundred people, it is currently the belief they probably only got something like 35.

Or this gargantuan fucking 500 pound lion that killed six people.

Also when you send out a team to take out one of these cats, they're smart enough to figure out they're being hunted and will hunt the humans back.

Incidentally one reason to clear battlefields of human remains after a battle is that these big cats don't generally consider people in their edible list but if they get a taste they might.
 
AnOminous said:
Incidentally one reason to clear battlefields of human remains after a battle is that these big cats don't generally consider people in their edible list but if they get a taste they might.
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Another great example of this occurring is said to have happened with wolves in France during the 100 Years War, at least according to legend.

To cut a long story short, because the wolves were so used to feasting on the overabundance of dead humans because of the war, and plague going on, and because all the constant commotion kept scattering their original prey, they completely lost their fear of humans to the point where they would just attack random villages, and eventually go on to invade Paris itself and kill forty people during a particularly bad winter.
 
A Grey Cat said:
The original draft of the movie version of holes by Richard Kelly. Would have taken place in a post apocalyptic Texas and the boys kg camp green lake where gonna be digging up the bodies of the people who died in a nuclear holocaust.


Thankfully this draft was rejected in favor of a script writen by holes author Louis sachar
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E. T. was originally envisioned as a slasher flick.
 
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