Redback sinks fangs into Oz builder's todger

[steve2470]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/27/oz_spider_attack/

An Aussie builder was the victim of a classic redback spider attack earlier his week when an eight-legged beast sank its fangs into his todger while he sat on a portaloo.

The unnamed 21-year-old "tradie" (tradesman) was enjoying an early-morning squat on the mobile dunny at a site in the south of Sydney when the creature attacked.

Paramedics attended the scene, but the man was able to make his own way to hospital, where he was admitted in a "stable condition".

According to this report, around 2,000 people a year are bitten by redbacks in Oz, but the results are rarely fatal due to the availability of an anti-venom. Nonetheless, it's an experience which will certainly "make you very miserable", according to Professor Julian White of Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Seems like almost all the wildlife in Australia can kill you.

[lapislzi]

3. Also, insects and other animals.

[ronnie624]

5. I've read that Australia

has more varieties of poisonous spiders and snakes than any other continent.

Incidentally, I wonder why it's always so 'funny' when male genitalia are injured.

[Hekate]

15. You'll have to ask men; they originate nearly all the penis humor, such as it is.

[ronnie624]

16. I agree.

I don't see humor in pain and misfortune. I'm one of the oddballs who never laughs when someone stumbles and falls.

[Nay]

6. Lots of Aussie plants will make you miserable, too, from what I hear. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Even those cute koalas aren't that cuddly. They bite.

Australia also has box jellyfish and sea snakes, which are spectacularly venomous; and crocodiles. I don't think I want to go there.

[Lars39]

2. Rec just for the colorful language

Poor guy.

[haikugal]

4. I hope his todger makes a full recovery.

[Ron Obvious]

8. Not a very Artful Todger then...

Meanwhile, all men reading this curled up with sympathy pains...

[steve2470]

9. +1 for joke and sympathy pains nt

[FSogol]

10. You should provide an english translation for us Non-Aussies.

[steve2470]

11. todger = UK slang for penis

Redback = poisonous spider down there

[FSogol]

12. Ouch, I was guessing bottom. n/t

[NuclearDem]

13. This might be the most Australian headline I've read in a while.

[beevul]

14. Yikes.

Redback/widow venom produces...the most excrutiating pain of any venomous biter/stinger.

*shiver*

[meow2u3]

17. Fixed link for you

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/redback-bites-sydney-mans-penis-in-portaloo/news-story/b4c79df788f8a7b3bef83602e50d69d2#load-story-comments

Some of the comments:

Lachlan
Poor bloke, he will be triple checking the outhouse for the rest of his life.

Ross
Right through reading the article I was waiting for the old punch-line " Doctor, can you just take away the pain and leave the swelling ".

John
In this case I think we could have used a better word than 'discharged' from Hospital. Double ouch!