Watch what you sit on !!!!!!

[Bonny]

Wombat, We had spiders the size of fifty cent pieces roaming around the outhouse. They were called Wolfies & they didn't eat us but they ate other spiders.

[wombat2u2004]

Wombat, We had spiders the size of fifty cent pieces roaming around the outhouse. They were called Wolfies & they didn't eat us but they ate other spiders.

We had redbacks, and they are quite poisoness.
I've heard of guys getting bit by one on the butt or elswhere when sitting on the throne. Not nice

[wombat2u2004]

Redbacks Leaving Country Seat

THE SUNDAY AGE
Sunday December 11, 1994


THAT scourge of the outback dunny the redback spider may have been forced out, although it remains a hazard to the unwary.

A study of spider bites in central Australia found that 32 people had severe redback bites in and around Alice Springs in 1991-92.

The serious bite rate was 0.36 per 1000 people, the highest yet reported. The study also found more women and fewer men were being bitten by redbacks.

But it seems no one suffered the painful indignity that sometimes goes with seeking relief in an outhouse. The study showed that the legendary redbacks of the outdoor dunny seat seem to be in the decline.

And of all the people treated for redback spider bites at Alice Springs Hospital during the two-year period, not one was bitten on the genitals.

``No genital bites were recorded, probably because outdoor toilets are no longer common," four experts wrote in the latest `Medical Journal of Australia'.

The team found that two-thirds of the patients were women, and 26 needed antivenom.

No deaths from redbacks bites have been reported since antivenom was introduced in 1956.

[wombat2u2004]

Australia is famous for its outback dunnies (outside toilets). These were traditionally famous for being ideal cool dark places for a Redback to build her nest. A famous song by Ralph Ernest ‘Slim’ Newton was written after being bitten on the nether regions after a late night visit to the dunny.

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
I jumped high up into the air,
And when I hit the ground,
That crafty red-back spider
Wasn’t nowhere to be found.

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

Rushed in to the missus,
Told her just where I’d been bit,
She grabbed the cut-throat razor blade,
And I nearly took a fit.
I said “Just forget what’s on your mind,
And call a doctor please,
‘Cause I’ve got a feeling that your cure
Is worse than the disease.”

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

I can’t lay down, I can’t sit up,
And I don’t know what to do,
And all the nurses think it’s funny,
But that’s not my point of view.
I tell you it’s embarrassing,
(And that’s to say the least)
That I’m too sick to eat a bite,
While that spider had a feast!

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.

And when I get back home again,
I tell you what I’ll do,
I’ll make that red-back suffer
For the pain I’m going through.
I’ve had so many needles
That I’m looking like a sieve,
And I promise you that spider
Hasn’t very long to live!

There was a red-back on the toilet seat
When I was there last night,
I didn’t see him in the dark,
But boy! I felt his bite!
And now I’m ere in hospital,
A sad and sorry plight,
And I curse the red-back spider
On the toilet seat last night.