Have you gained any fears from reading stories? If so, what were they? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I read a book that took place in Haida Gwaii, an island off of the coast is British Columbia, Canada. At one point in the story a the dad of the protagonist, who is a fisherman,

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gets eaten by a sea lion.

This has been a fear whenever I'm on the water or otherwise near sea lions ever since.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There was beach in Southern California that got take over by sea lions. The community got all worked up with one side wanting to evict the sea lions somehow and the other wanting to protect or leave them alone.

One guy on the leave-them-alone side thought he could prove they aren’t a nuisance by going to the beach to camp out with them. He got the shit kicked out him so bad by the sea lions he was hospitalized.

Don’t fuck with sea lions. They are huge and aggressive. There’s a reason they’re called sea lions. Sea also: leopard seals.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 day ago

That's interesting, I'm going to Haida Gwaii this summer!

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

What's the book called?

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