Australia: UK man survives bite on testicle by deadly Tasmanian tiger snake
The Sun might be a newspaper on the verge of shutdown, but it can still generate a headline half a world away.
On Thursday, the embattled Murdoch tabloid reported the ordeal of a British tourist "bitten down under" by a deadly Aussie snake while answering call of nature.
Jackson Scott, 29, from Glasgow, had reportedly "squatted" in the dark in rural Tasmania — the island state in Australia's far southeast that is so unnewsworthy it's routinely left off the national map — when a highly venomous tiger snake bit his testicle, The Sun reported.
Compelling stuff, huh. It gets better.
Scott told the paper in the exclusive interview that when he begged best mate, Roddy Andrews, to suck the venom out, his buddy refused.
He did, however, agree to drive Scott 40 minutes back to the capital city, Hobart, so that doctors could administer an antidote.
Still, Scott was, the paper wrote, lucky to be alive after the "painful and embarrassing encounter."
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