"May the odds always be with me."
Australia, eh? If it ain’t the Whites, it’s the waves and if it ain’t the waves…
Just one day after posting his commiserations re: WSL commentator Ronnie Blakey’s snapped leg, world champion surfer, former ASP head and almost state politician, Wayne “Rabbit’ Bartholomew, has had his own brush with mortality, hospitalised after being bitten by an unidentified snake.
“Hanging out in hospital waiting to see if it was a deadly snake or a non-venomous one or maybe a juvenile snake that did not inject its venom. In Australia, they treat it as a worst-case scenario. May the odds always always be with me.”
The Gold Coast is home to some real sons of bitches including the deadly Eastern Tiger Snake, the Eastern Brown Snake (“fastest acting venom in the world”) and the slightly less poisonous Red Bellied Black Snake.
Spring, summer, real active times for snakes on the GC.
Bugs’ old pals had a field day on Instagram,
From Hawaiian legend Micky Nielsen, “Make sure it’s not COVID! Everything’s COVID now days!”
Journalist and Whale Beach property baron Jon Jenkins, “I had flashbacks to your thong getting caught in the escalator at Sydney airport!”
More as the story, or poison, develops.
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Could have been embarrassing if he had to call the ambos from a nudie beach.
Baby danger-noodles inject ALL their venom. The grown-ups choose how much to inject.
Yep. My wife went viral when she picked up a baby snek. Couldn’t work out what it was, so sent it to Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers to identify. They said; “Err, that’s an Eastern Brown. Can we use this picture as an example of what not to do?” She said, “Yeah, just don’t identify me.” So it went out and the next thing you know, 50000 views on the Tube…
A Rabbit, Dingo
And Snake walk into a bar
Ah, fuck it, I’m done…
A Rabbit, Dingo
and Snake paddle up
Ah fuck it, I’m done…
Elite hasslers of their times.
A Blonde walks into a bar and goes….ouch.