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AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION 28 December 05 Snake breaks cyclist's fall
A man has fallen off his bike and onto a snake at Viewbank in Melbourne's north-east this morning.
Ambulance paramedic Damien Warrillow says the man was riding along the Yarra River when the accident happened.
"He's fallen off his bike and fallen on top of a snake by the sounds of it and he's been bitten on the lower leg either by a tiger or brown snake," he said.
"He had a couple of friends with him so they've applied first aid ... they've applied the appropriate bandages and tyre and tubes to the lower leg."
The man has been taken to hospital and is in a stable condition.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1538772.htm

NEWS.COM.AU (Australia) 28 December 05 Mates treat snake-bite victim
(AAP) Quick-thinking friends of a Melbourne cyclist bitten by a snake when he came off his bike wrapped their mate's wound in an inner tube from his mountain bike.
The man, aged in his 20s, is recovering in hospital after his two friends treated the wound by wrapping it in the tube, winning praise from ambulance paramedics.
Ambulance spokeswoman Liana Cross said the man was riding today with friends along the Yarra River at Viewbank, in Melbourne's north, when he came off his bike and landed on the snake, believed to be either a venomous brown snake or tiger snake.
"He was very lucky, his friends did an excellent job," Ms Cross said.
"It was textbook stuff, they did everything right."
The snake bit the man on the shin, which his friends wrapped in the bike tube and some clothing.
One friend waited with him while the other rode to an area with mobile phone reception to call an ambulance, Ms Cross said.
He was taken to the Austin Hospital.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17676545-29277,00.html

This guy better watch out for rouge asteroids... What are the chances of this happening...to fall from you bike and ending up on a venomous snake?

The only other like occurance I've heard of is the story told by Dr. Finlay Russell. He tells of treating a dirt biker in the 70's who was thrown from his dirt bike and flew through the air and landed on his belly sliding. His hand ended up going down a hole. Well, sure enough inside the hole was a Western Diamondback.

Al
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
(Henry Ford)

Can an old soldier play this game too? ... my archive favorite for things that make you say 'darn$#!!' ...

PANAFRICAN NEWS AGENCY 22 May 97 Man Fleeing Tax Collectors Bitten Dead By Snake
Dakar, Senegal: A man was bitten to death by a snake in southeastern Uganda when he hid in the bush to avoid arrest by tax collectors, the state-owned newspaper, The New Vision newspaper, reported Thursday.
The newspaper, published in Kampala, identified the man as Annas Mwakaka, 45, of Buwani, in Buswale subcounty, Bugiri subdistrict, Iganga district. He died on the way to the hospital.
It said Mwakaka was walking from his home to the trading centre when he met a boy who told him that tax enforcers were on the way and that evaders were being caught and tied to ropes.
Being a renowned tax evader, who even used to boast before fellow villagers that he has not paid tax for the last 10 years, Mwakaka decided to hide in a nearby shrub to evade arrest.
When he saw the tax enforcers approaching, he squatted and was bitten by a snake bit.
Mwakaka wailed so loudly that the tax enforcers thought they had walked into an ambush. It was when he shouted that he had been bitten that the enforcers went to Mwakaka's rescue.
The agents took Mwakaka to his relatives, who hurriedly ferried him to hospital by bicycle. However, Mwakaka died on the way.
The newspaper quoted a local official as saying that Mwakaka was a heavy drinker and a tax dodger. There are many young men in the area who evade taxes, he said.