Posted on 04/03/2006 5:14:36 PM PDT by wagglebee
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A red-faced Australian nudist who tried to set fire to what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider's nest ended up with badly burned buttocks, emergency officials said Monday.
The 56-year-old man was at a nudist colony near Bowral, about 60 miles southwest of Sydney, Sunday when he spotted what he believed to be a funnel web spider hole.
Ambulance workers, including a helicopter crew, were called to the scene after the man poured petrol down the hole and then lit a match in an attempt to kill the offending arachnid.
"The exploding gasoline fumes left the man with burns to 18 percent of his body, on the upper leg and buttocks," the NRMA Careflight helicopter rescue service said in a statement.
It said the man's lack of clothing probably contributed to the extent of his burns.
"The fate of the bunkered spider was unknown, although other guests at the resort thought it was probably a harmless trapdoor spider and not a deadly funnel web," the statement said.
NRMA Careflight said it was called to a property in the same area in January when another man kicked a spider that was crawling up the wall of a friend's cabin. The man broke his leg in two places, it said.
I don't want to know, I don't want to know....
I don't want to know, I don't want to know.....
LMAO!
And possibly some other important parts of his anatomy!
I don't want to know, I don't want to know....
When we moved to the country years ago we had to burn our trash in a barrel because there was no trash pickup. I always got a small can of kerosene at the gas station but this one time they gave me a gasoline and kerosene mixture. I poured it on the trash and struck a match, I was blown flat on my back. The fire singed off my eyebrows and the front of my hair and burned a spot on my forehead. Fortunately I had my clothes on or I hate to think what might have happened. Try to imagine the hissey fit this little 5'3" woman threw at the filling station the next day.That has been 30 years ago and I'll bet they still remember. LOL!
It said the man's lack of clothing intelligence probably contributed to the extent of his burns.
I'm pretty sure alchohol was involved.......
I had an uncle ( married into the family not bloodline ) who's father took up nudism in his old age. Passed out in the hot tub at the facility. Medical personell had to respond. As my grandma said as she shuddered, "Can you imagine coming too with all that hanging over you ?" LOL.......
I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know...
(cue the Johnny Cash music ...)
"I ended up with a burning Ring of Fire"
RING OF FIRE lyrics:
Love is a burning thing
and it makes a firery ring
bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire...
I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down,down,down
and the flames went higher.
And it burns,burns,burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire.
Future Darwin Award Winner
I don't want to look, I don't want to look...
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