(1999, Darwin, Australia)
A bloke named Gordon from Darwin, Australia lost his arm, the use of his
legs, and was revived three times on the operating table after an encounter
with a king brown snake, the 21st most deadly venomous snake in the world.
Gordon has said, "I still can't believe my arm's been chopped off just for
one snake."
Perhaps nine snakes who each bit him once would be more easily believed than
the one snake who bit him nine times. Gordon, who has admitted he was drunk
at the time, had been driving with a friend from Mandorah to Darwin when
they saw the snake. He picked it up with his left hand "because I was
holding a beer in my right one." The snake bit the web of his hand, but
Gordon managed to withstand the pain and put it in a plastic bag. He threw
the bag in the back of the car.
Once again quoting Gordon, "For some stupid reason, I stuck my hand back in
the bag, and it must have smelled blood, and it bit me another eight times."
His friend drove him to a nearby hotel, where he was taken by ambulance to
the hospital. His friend tried to keep him conscious by, as Gordon said,
"whacking me in the head and pouring beer on me."
Despite his friend's quick action, doctors have said that it will take a
long time and a lot of rehabilitation before Gordon regains full muscle
control. When he does, we fondly anticipate another Darwin Award attempt.
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
