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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Vulcan on May 14, 2010, 05:32:01 AM
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3697571/Katipo-bites-skinny-dipping-tourist
A venomous katipo spider bite on his noodle was the high price a tourist paid for a skinny-dip at a Northland beach.
The 22-year-old Canadian left his clothes in the sand dunes while he went for his nude swim and slept on his return, according to a report on the case in today's online NZ Medical Journal.
"He woke to find his noodle swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalised muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting," wrote Dr Nigel Harrison and colleagues who treated him at Dargaville and Whangarei hospitals.
By the time the man reached Dargaville Hospital, his noodle was severely swollen, his blood pressure was up and his heart beat racing.
Chest pain and other symptoms developed the next morning and it was presumed he had been bitten by a katipo. He was treated with anti-venom medicine and rapidly improved.
(http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/education/insects_spiders/images/katipo.jpg)
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Boy, go to NZ, lose wee-wee,lol. Second story in a short time of people and their "private' problems (remember "Skyfox" incident). Poor stupids,lol
<S> Oz
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yeah... nice story :lol but have you heard of the atlas spider? not even poisonous to humans but....OWWWWWWW. the thing can reach up to 1 foot in body length alone
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By the time the man reached Dargaville Hospital, his noodle was severely swollen, his blood pressure was up and his heart beat racing.
It sounds like he had a good time! :devil
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This response to the article gave me a chuckle:
The Ballad of the Katipo
As I went out one morning all along the sandy dune
it did take my fancy to remove my hose and shoon
There being no other soul in sight I took off my trews as well
and plunged my naked limbs into the Northland briney swell
After a fine frolic among the white billow
I back and lay down with a dune as me pillow
a dune as me pillow and fresh air for a sheet
away up in Northland that's not indiscreet
Alas I did wake with an ache and a half
and a bright red suggestive bite mark on me shaft
'that looks like Max factor' I mused all aloud
and looked round for a lass with such lipstick endowed
Then I started not feeling so terribly grand
and tossed up me breakfast all over the sand
made me way, as folks do when they're feeling quite ill
to the fine big infirmary in Dargaville
When I reached the hospital me heart it did race
me blood pressure up and me knob grown apace
for there in the waiting room who should I spy
but a ruby lipped lassie a winking her eye
Now the doctors who treated me all of them swore
that they'd seen my condition a few times before
they concluded a spider had bitten me salamander
and that's what had made me all anxious and sick
Well there's some say that science explains everything
from the growth of your nails to the width of your ring
All I can say certain to finish this song
next time I'm in Northland me togs are staying on.
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That's great dragon, you're talented. wtg
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LOL Dragon,
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Who needs viagara...
Oh you know somebody was going to go there eventually... :bolt:
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Who needs viagara...
Oh you know somebody was going to go there eventually... :bolt:
viva...
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Who needs viagara...
Oh you know somebody was going to go there eventually... :bolt:
hang on love, I'll just get out my spider.
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Can we keep the swelling and take away the pain?
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''hurry honey, suck out the venom!"
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''hurry honey, suck out the venom!"
"The doctor says you are going to die!"
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This response to the article gave me a chuckle:
The Ballad of the Katipo
As I went out one morning all along the sandy dune
it did take my fancy to remove my hose and shoon
There being no other soul in sight I took off my trews as well
and plunged my naked limbs into the Northland briney swell
After a fine frolic among the white billow
I back and lay down with a dune as me pillow
a dune as me pillow and fresh air for a sheet
away up in Northland that's not indiscreet
Alas I did wake with an ache and a half
and a bright red suggestive bite mark on me shaft
'that looks like Max factor' I mused all aloud
and looked round for a lass with such lipstick endowed
Then I started not feeling so terribly grand
and tossed up me breakfast all over the sand
made me way, as folks do when they're feeling quite ill
to the fine big infirmary in Dargaville
When I reached the hospital me heart it did race
me blood pressure up and me knob grown apace
for there in the waiting room who should I spy
but a ruby lipped lassie a winking her eye
Now the doctors who treated me all of them swore
that they'd seen my condition a few times before
they concluded a spider had bitten me salamander
and that's what had made me all anxious and sick
Well there's some say that science explains everything
from the growth of your nails to the width of your ring
All I can say certain to finish this song
next time I'm in Northland me togs are staying on.
:rofl