A BRIT was bitten “down under” recently by a killer snake while answering a call of nature in the Aussie ‘bush’. The reptile sank its fangs into Jackson Scott’s testicle as he squatted in the dark.
But when he begged best mate, Roddy Andrews to suck the venom out, his pal REFUSED.
Instead, he drove Jackson on a 40-minute life-or-death dash to Hobart, Tasmania, where doctors gave him an antidote to the deadly tiger snake poison.
Jackson, 29, a musician who hails from Glasgow, said: “I went into the garden at four in the morning after a night in the pub to save flushing the toilet, because water is precious in the ‘outback’.
“Just as I finished and was about to tuck everything safely away, it bit me. I had my pants around my knees when I hobbled into Roddy’s bedroom. My heart was racing, and I was hallucinating.
“Needless to say, Rod was not of a mind to suck out the poison.”
Jackson, who’s on a year’s working holiday at the remote farm, added: “The doctors and nurses were very professional; they didn’t take the mickey out of me being bitten on my wedding tackle.” (TheSun)