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Originally Posted by bencelest
Pauly:
That is a myth if I heard one. I still have to know someone died because of a falling coconut fruit. Coconuts can stay on the tree until the husk dried up. The only time that I know that a coconut fell off the tree was when the rats chew on the stem or the giant crabs from Hawaii chew on the coconuts (this I heard from a Hawaiian friend of mine who as a kid hunt this giant crabs and they were very delicious so I heard). And he knows where to hunt them.
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A friend of mine almost died from a falling coconut. She was in the hospital for awhile in serious condition. They can be rather heavy and not much different as if large stones were falling from trees. Here, almost all coconuts in public areas (and in and around hotels and resorts) are routinely pruned of flowers to stop large fruit from ever forming. All coconuts have to fall off the tree sometime, and even when they look brown and dry they are full of water and oil inside the seed still.
On another note, there are no coconut crabs here in Hawai'i, thats a south pacific thing. So perhaps your friend grew up somewhere else or was telling you the myth!