Once bitten, twice shy
I remember Mich talking about a sea lion who attacked a kid, but how about this for a story.It's way back from 1993...
A FORMER national shot put and discus champion was bitten on his testicles yesterday by a python hiding in a toilet bowl he was sitting on.
Mr Fok Keng Choy, 43, a supervisor at the Tanglin Golf Course in Napier Road, is recovering at Gleneagles Hospital after receiving stitches to close a surface wound, his wife said last night.
She said that he was relieving himself at the toilet near the course's booking office when he was bitten.
"Snakes are common there because of the bushes, but not in toilets," she said.
He was bleeding and in pain but managed to call for help.
Pest control experts later caught the 2 1/2-m-long python. She was told by doctors that the bite was not poisonous. It is not known what happened to the snake.
Mr Fok was a former national field events coach and was a shot put and discus record holder in the 1970s and 80s.
posted by Al @ 8:20 pm
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