Friday Question: What Animal Would You Use To Murder Me?

[GirlySports]

Rule: the animal cannot be dead

That's the first line of the original post.

[Minnie]

Death by platypus.

[dissentowner]

I'll go with death by Blue Ringed Octopus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus

The blue-ringed octopus is 12 to 20 cm (5 to 8 in), but its venom is powerful enough to kill humans. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available.
The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, hyaluronidase, tyramine, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of blue-ringed octopus venom was originally known as 'maculotoxin', but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin,[4] a neurotoxin also found in pufferfish that is 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide.[5] Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is produced by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus.[6] Their venom can result in nausea, respiratory arrest, heart failure, severe and sometimes total paralysis, and blindness, and can lead to death within minutes if not treated. Death is usually from suffocation due to lack of oxygen to the brain.

[sclitheroe]

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

[Minnie]

Actually, I'll amend. I'll just lock you in a room with my mother for 3 days. The woman will talk you to death. And if by chance she doesn't talk you to death, you will kill yourself just so that you don't have to listen to her for another minute.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by octothorp

I think one of the more venomous cone snails would be a good weapon for the requirements of this scenario. The fact that it's in a shell makes it relatively easy to handle as a weapon without getting stung, compared to most poisonous animals (although some care is still required). All it would take is to get close enough to you without you getting particularly suspicious, and then quickly hold the shell opening against any part of you and give it a little shake (it doesn't need bare flesh, its stinger can easily penetrate clothing). The toxins take a little time to act (maybe an hour or so), but there's no antivirus.

This is the best one, I declare it the winner.

[FlameOn]

Crushed by dog!

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Trouser Snake

You mean Calvin? 1:20

[troutman]

16 chickens (and a tambourine).