Tourist Survives Spider Willy Bite

[Black Blade]

Tourist Survives Spider Willy Bite

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By STAFF REPORTER

Published: 14 May 2010

A TOURIST had a lucky escape after a deadly spider bit him ... on the PENIS.

The Canadian backpacker was attacked when he went skinny-dipping in New Zealand.

While he was swimming, a rare katipo spider crawled into the shorts he had left on the beach.

When the man returned, he put them back on and fell asleep — but the trapped spider then nipped him on his manhood.

Within minutes the spider's venom was causing him to have agonising chest pains, a racing heart, high blood pressure and severe swelling to his penis.

Dr Nigel Harrison, who treated the 22-year-old at Dargaville Hospital, revealed the case in a report for the New Zealand Medical Journal.

He said: "It was a rather nasty, ill-placed bite. The man woke to find his penis 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."

The unidentified man's condition "improved rapidly" after treatment with an anti-venom, but he was kept in hospital for 16 days before being allowed to return to Canada.

The katipo, a Maori word meaning "night-stinger", is an endangered species in New Zealand found only in the North Island.

The pea-sized spiders are related to the American Black Widow. Bites to humans are rare but two fatalities were recorded in the 1800s.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2973245/Tourist-survives-spider-willy-bite.html#ixzz0nujLrZBv

[Ironfield]

This species of spider must also be a cousin to the Australian Red Back spider as such he's lucky to survive not to mention keeping his rod and tackle intact.

"The katipo, a Maori word meaning "night-stinger", is an endangered species in New Zealand found only in the North Island." This made me laugh, endangered or not I bet you he killed the Lil bugger hence the doctors knew what anti-venom to supply him with.

Morel of the story if you need to drop your trunks shake them before putting them back on. its no different to the countless number of people who fail to turn their shoes upside down when they go camping. Number of times I've found either a bunch of ants or a scorpion in my boot. . .

-Ironfield

[still afloat]

Sure corny catch phrases and pickup lines are bound to come from this .

Is that a spider bite , or are you just happy to see me ?

I just got bit by a poisonous spider , quick suck the venom out !

[Gknowmx]

Sure corny catch phrases and pickup lines are bound to come from this .

Is that a spider bite , or are you just happy to see me ?

I just got bit by a poisonous spider , quick suck the venom out !





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[Black Blade]

Sure corny catch phrases and pickup lines are bound to come from this .

Is that a spider bite , or are you just happy to see me ?

I just got bit by a poisonous spider , quick suck the venom out !




+1

Oh yeah!!!

[iOWNme]

Let me get this straight, a spider bit his snake?

[Hellsbane]

I wonder, will the swelling ever go down? I mean, if it caused his willy to swell, is it possible this could be a new way to enlarge a willy?

[steveoc]

There is an old song about this, that all aussie kids used to learn :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5yifFxGp2E

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
I jumped high up into the air,
And when I hit the ground,
That crafty red-back spider
Wasn't nowhere to be found.

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

Rushed in to the missus,
Told her just where I'd been bit,
She grabbed the cut-throat razor blade,
And I nearly took a fit.
I said "Just forget what's on your mind,
And call a doctor please,
'Cause I've got a feeling that your cure
Is worse than the disease."

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

I can't lay down, I can't sit up,
And I don't know what to do,
And all the nurses think it's funny,
But that's not my point of view.
I tell you it's embarrassing,
(And that's to say the least)
That I'm too sick to eat a bite,
While that spider had a feast!

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

And when I get back home again,
I tell you what I'll do,
I'll make that red-back suffer
For the pain I'm going through.
I've had so many needles
That I'm looking like a sieve,
And I promise you that spider
Hasn't very long to live!

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn't see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I'm ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

[Neuro]

Hillary I promise a spider bit me and my Willy swelled up, fortunately intern Lewinsky was around to help suck the venom out!