# Peruvian Villagers Sick from Meteor Strike **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611 "2007-09-18T15:10:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/1 "2007-09-18T15:10:47Z")
“Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday…” [QUOTE=AFP Wire] Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a “strange odor,” local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP… Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. [/QUOTE] [Yahoo! News Link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/sc_afp/peruhealthoffbeat) This reminds me of the [thread=414288]UFO that killed some camels[/thread] in Somalia earlier this year. Are aliens trying out biological weapons, now? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/2 "2007-09-18T15:31:01Z")
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat With A Thousand Young! ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/3 "2007-09-18T15:41:25Z")
The zombie apocalypse has begun. Attention all currently non-infected 'dopers: Please report to the location previously agreed upon with all relevant supplies. Remember the rules only allow for ONE child or Pet. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/4 "2007-09-18T16:05:41Z")
“It’s my wife… she sick! She changed!..That not her… That _not_ my wife!” Beware any new exotic plant exports from Peru, people. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/5 "2007-09-18T16:15:53Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat With A Thousand Young! [/QUOTE] Well Peru is very close to Antarctica, isn’t it? Probably the meteor hit some kind of deep cache of the Elder Things. I love the smell of burnt Shoggoth in the morning… ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/6 "2007-09-18T16:17:55Z")
Don’t eat the large swollen vegetables at next year’s vegetable stands. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/7 "2007-09-18T16:22:18Z")
Maybe I’m talking out of my ass here but don’t meteroites have the possibility of being highly radioactive? Is it a good idea to be poking around this thing and getting possible radiation sickness? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/8 "2007-09-18T16:31:16Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] “It’s my wife… she sick! She changed!..That not her… That _not_ my wife!” Beware any new exotic plant exports from Peru, people. [/QUOTE] Are you kidding? That sounds like some _primo_ shit, man! Uh, not that I would know about that or anything … _:: tries to look innocent ::_ ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/9 "2007-09-18T17:03:25Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Maybe I’m talking out of my ass here but don’t meteroites have the possibility of being highly radioactive? Is it a good idea to be poking around this thing and getting possible radiation sickness? [/QUOTE] I started a [thread=436996]GQ thread[/thread] on the how. Assuming this is a real reaction to something in the meteorite, I’m curious to what it is. Or it could be mass hallucination. This thread is for discussing the imminent invasion. I’m not sleeping tonight until this is worked out. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/10 "2007-09-18T17:14:25Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Maybe I’m talking out of my ass here but don’t meteroites have the possibility of being highly radioactive? Is it a good idea to be poking around this thing and getting possible radiation sickness? [/QUOTE] I don’t believe so. I asked one of my geology profs this and got a strong negative, and none of my nickel-iron specimens have shown the slightest trace. Granted, my rad meter doesn’t work so well for alpha… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/11 "2007-09-18T17:18:21Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat With A Thousand Young! [/QUOTE] Paging Conan. Conan the Barbarian, cleanup on aisle three. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/12 "2007-09-18T17:22:52Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Well Peru is very close to Antarctica, isn’t it? [/QUOTE] Nowhere near, I’m afraid. Further than Mexico is from the North Pole. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/13 "2007-09-18T17:26:21Z")
[QUOTE=Epimetheus] Nowhere near, I’m afraid. Further than Mexico is from the North Pole. [/QUOTE] No giant penguins then? Bother. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/14 "2007-09-18T17:28:24Z")
Maybe the aliens were trying to land at the Nazca Lines and went off-course. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/15 "2007-09-18T17:30:12Z")
In a couple years my family is planning on doing a reunion type of thing in Peru (my new Brother-in-Law is from Peru), hopefully all the gas or radiation or whatever is gone by then. Of course he is from Lima, but we were planning on traveling a bit (and south). ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/16 "2007-09-18T18:29:19Z")
Clearly [_Smallville_’s] Clark Kent is going to emerge at any point now… ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/17 "2007-09-18T18:54:53Z")
Headaches and vomiting after a “strange smell?” Needs a complete rewrite. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/18 "2007-09-18T18:57:16Z")
I first thought of _The Andromeda Strain_, but the Cthulhu jokes work for me too. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/19 "2007-09-18T18:58:32Z")
Mass hysteria, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611/20 "2007-09-18T19:34:56Z")
At least they didn’t get a face full of heat ray from the martians. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peruvian-villagers-sick-from-meteor-strike/419611.md?page=2)