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Man treads on ant nest, falls 100mOctober 21, 2003A MAN who got out of his car to answer a call of nature ended up injured and stranded when he stepped on an ants' nest and fell down a 100 metre slope. The hapless motorist's ordeal began when he stopped beside the road in the Lamington National Park, on the Gold Coast hinterland, around midnight last night, police said. He first stood on a nest of meat ants, which swarmed out and began biting him. As the man scrambled away from the nest he lost his footing and tumbled 100 metres...