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Don't pick up the snakes in Australia
If you go to Australia, like for a polymeet, don't pick up the snakes people.
The snake he picked up was a brown snake, found all over Australia, second most poisonous snake in the world, a real tragedy, but quite common for people to die after not knowing they were bit by this snake, it has small fangs and even the baby ones can kill.
The captain of an Australian hockey team died after he was bitten by a snake he picked up from the sports ground and carried into the bushes.
Karl Berry, 26, captain of the Commerce-Pints Hockey Club in Darwin, thought the snake was a harmless baby python.
In fact it was a deadly Western Brown, one of Australia's most venomous reptiles.
Not realising he had been bitten, Mr Berry then set of on a mile-long training run.
It was, reptile experts and medical staff agreed today, the worst thing he could have done. The exercise quickly spread the snake's venom throughout his body.
Part-way through the run, Mr Berry collapsed.
Paramedics arrived as other players comforted him on the hockey field at Marrara Stadium.
He was conscious enough to tell them that he had picked up a snake earlier.
'He said he thought it was a python, which would not have been dangerous,' said St John Ambulance operations manager Craig Garraway.
'He was quite unwell at this stage
'When the paramedics looked at his hand they saw the bite mark on his finger.
'The bite was more consistent with a bite from a poisonous species,' Mr Garraway told the Northern Territory News.
Karl Berry, 26, captain of the Commerce-Pints Hockey Club in Darwin, thought the snake was a harmless baby python.
In fact it was a deadly Western Brown, one of Australia's most venomous reptiles.
Not realising he had been bitten, Mr Berry then set of on a mile-long training run.
It was, reptile experts and medical staff agreed today, the worst thing he could have done. The exercise quickly spread the snake's venom throughout his body.
Part-way through the run, Mr Berry collapsed.
Paramedics arrived as other players comforted him on the hockey field at Marrara Stadium.
He was conscious enough to tell them that he had picked up a snake earlier.
'He said he thought it was a python, which would not have been dangerous,' said St John Ambulance operations manager Craig Garraway.
'He was quite unwell at this stage
'When the paramedics looked at his hand they saw the bite mark on his finger.
'The bite was more consistent with a bite from a poisonous species,' Mr Garraway told the Northern Territory News.
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