Posted on 07/22/2015 12:32:32 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A teenager has survived after falling 100ft off a cliff then being bitten by a venomous snake at the bottom.
Brock Leach, 14, tumbled over a cliff edge and bounced off outcroppings and rocks during his descent - before landing on a ledge.
But as he tried to clamber to safety before the tide came in Brock suddenly felt a sharp pain in the hand he'd been using to help pull himself along.
He was horrified to discover he had been bitten by an adder - the only native venomous snake in the UK.
The fall was witnessed by his brother Josh, 16, who rushed to his aid and tried to get him to higher ground.
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Mrs Leach, who also has two other sons, Oliver, 19, and Samuel, 18, heard the rescue helicopter from their home while she was speaking to her husband Dean, 43, online from Vietnam, where he is working as an ocean exploration scientist.
But she had no idea her sons were involved until Josh arrived home a short while later accompanied by a coastguard.
The incident took place at the clifftop at Trebarwith Strand on Sunday when it is believed Brock slipped on some lichen.
Josh said he saw him fall and, despite being frightened and shocked himself, went to his brother's rescue, scrambling down the steep incline to reach Brock's side.
He said: "He was still conscious and talking, I got him out of the way to a higher ledge because the sea was coming in. I said to stay there, but he wanted to go with me."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The sixteen year-old is a life saver.
Was it a Blackadder?
Wow. Well he’s got his bad luck for the year out of the way. Tough kid.
One of those days where you wish you had stayed in bed.
Does everything have to be about race?!
;)
Talk about bad luck, fall off a cliff, survive and the get bitten by the one and only venomous snake in the UK. What are the odds?
They need better writers and editors.
;>)
What fun is there in that!
: )
He broke his pelvis. Ouch.
All I can see in my mind’s eye is Homer Simpson bouncing down every outcrop on the way down...
He was lucky that he got prompt care from Britain’s socialized medicine system. He could have been treated by some foreign trained doctor who misdiagnosed the snakebite and then waited 6 months for anti-venom.
Freepers can be brutal sometimes, :)
Thanks!
If it was a White Adder they would have identified it as such.
He survived all of it? Tough kid!
What an African America thats really good at math got to do with it?
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