From time to time the Australian print media offers something out of the ordinary, something wacky, something so breath-takingly bizarre it makes you choke on the hot cup of tea you're nursing. Usually these morsels of crazy are confined to papers from the NT or far North Queensland. So far nothing has rivalled revenge croc, which was a tale of untimely death, anguish, and, ultimately, reprisals:
However, upon reading my favourite paper from my motherland (nothing like a bit of political commentary to cure the homesickness), I found a little gem, and I didn't even have to go to the more obscure newspapers to find it!
The gist of this story was that some guy ate a slug for a dare and became rather ill as a result. The quote of the day came shining on through:
One might have thought that the "real warning" not to eat a slug would be the fact that it is a slug. Maybe that's just me though.
B. J. Barnes
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