I live here in OZ, NSW Central Coast to be vaguely exact.....
We have the sorts of spiders here that will kill you in 15 minutes..... Female Sydney Funnel Web if you care .... but not a SINGLE PERSON HAS DIED SINCE 1980.
A local to me, Eric Worrell, started 'milking' spiders at his tourist trap reptile park, and it is used as an antivenom.
I mean, getting bit hurts like hell, and will make you want to die, but spiders . . they aren't the danger you yanks all think they are . . .
These fuckers though... the Irukandji jellyfish. 50-100 people a year are hospitalised, and a fair number of those die of BRAIN HAEMMORAGES.
"...describes the sting as "100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula's"."
Here's an idea, when a local or a sign says 'dont swim in that water, i dont care if it's pretty, i dont care if you saw it on TV, dont fucking swim', then . . . maybe dont fucking swim?
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