Posted on 05/10/2005 7:11:28 AM PDT by dead
A FEMALE university security guard who decided to defecate in a bushy area because toilets were too far, got more than she had bargained for when she was bitten by a snake on her buttocks.
The 29-year-old woman who is employed by a private security company contracted to the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo gave out a scream when the snake struck her bottom, alerting her colleagues who rushed to her aid.
A university spokesman said the woman who declines to be named was to blame, charging: "She knows where the toilets are."
According to the Bulawayo Chronicle, the woman chose to relieve herself in the bush because there were no toilets near the main entrance where she was manning the gate.
Recounting her ordeal, she said: "I felt a painful sting and I ran screaming for help towards my colleagues. However, that is all I can remember because when I woke up I found myself in a hospital bed."
Other guards who came to her aid say they saw a snake escaping into the thick bush on an adjacent piece of land to the university and immediately summoned for an ambulence. She was admitted for two nights at the nearby United Bulawayo Hospitals.
Another guard told the Chronicle: “The situation is really pathetic as we are exposed to danger because we are forced to use the bush as a toilet. We have tried to ask the university to build some toilets for us on several occasions, but up to now they have not done anything about it."
Felix Moyo, the university's director of public relations had no sympathy for the guard.
“I heard that there was a female security guard who was bitten by a snake, but I am not sure what she was doing at the time. However, if she was relieving her self in the bushes then that is not the university’s fault as they know where the nearest toilets are if they need to relieve themselves,” he said.
My good wife (an avid outdoors woman) theorizes that part of the curses laid down in the Garden (but left out of the good book for reasons of propriety) was one which ordained that women, for ever more, would have to squat for # 1.
I, on the other hand maintain that, with diligent practice, women would be able to overcome this curse! ;o)
Drew the POO Barrymore! LOL!
Well, I guess VA was a former English colony...you see? Colonialism doesn't work!
I heard that JLO and Marc Anthony's house caught on fire in the middle of the night. Marc woke up and yelled to Jen for her to get out of the house and haul ass! Jen had to make two trips. : )
LOL! Now, that is funny.
"Gradnma Got Run Over By A Reindeer...." :-)
Would that be the opposite of "anal retentive"?
I didn't say they eat night soil. The statement was made that the person doesn't eat anything that was pooped on. Putting night soil on crops for fertilizer is indirectly pooping on them, a practice common in Mexico. Is there some kind of problem? You seem a bit testy over this.
Hey , they do the same thing here in NYC , no kiddin'!! A pile of poop that is closer to a building[or something similar,wall,car,etc] than a dog would excrete, is a dead giveaway , ya gotta know poop here in NYC
Here you can chalk it up to different facilities or lack of culture. : )
Important safety tip!
I see you're already here...
...when she lays around the house, she really lays around the house...
...when she lays around the house, she really lays around the house...
Don't know about Zimbabwe but, having been a security guard in a number of locations, I don't immediately blame the guard.
Unless they consistently treat them like actual human beings in Z.
Dan
How could I not?
This story reminds me of the time we drove 80 mph from Houston to Texas city to fish on the dike. Well, my sister really needed to relieve herself so as soon as the car stopped she hopped right out and squatted down on the VW's very hot tailpipe.
She says the scar is still there.
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