Posted: 5/15/2010 11:50:24 PM EDT
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592893,00.html
Man, 22, Suffers Poisonous Spider Bite to the Genitals Friday, May 14, 2010 A tourist is lucky to be alive after a deadly spider bit him on the penis. The Canadian backpacker was attacked after 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 agonizing 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. "It was a rather nasty, ill-placed bite,” Harrison said. “The man woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalized 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 the 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. The pea-sized spiders are related to the American Black Widow. Bites to humans are rare, but two fatalities were recorded in the 1800s. |
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Quoted: I started laughing when I read that line. 1800s wtf?http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592893,00.html Man, 22, Suffers Poisonous Spider Bite to the Genitals Friday, May 14, 2010 A tourist is lucky to be alive after a deadly spider bit him on the penis. The Canadian backpacker was attacked after 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 agonizing 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. "It was a rather nasty, ill-placed bite,” Harrison said. “The man woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalized 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 the 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. The pea-sized spiders are related to the American Black Widow. Bites to humans are rare, but two fatalities were recorded in the 1800s. |
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Wow...
I shit you not, earlier today I was outside re-wiring the TNI box on the side of my house and seen a black widow. Shortly afterwards, while taking a piss, I thought to my self "I wonder if anyone has ever been bitten on the cash and prizes by a venomous spider..." Oh...it's venomous, not poisonous. |
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Quoted: Within minutes, the spider's venom was causing him to have agonizing chest pains, a racing heart, high blood pressure and severe swelling to his penis. I can see it now..the newest craze in penis enlargement infomercials. "contains katipo venom, apply directly to penis." |