It's the hitting the ground part of the fall.
Posted on 07/22/2015 12:32:32 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A teenager has survived after falling 100ft off a cliff then being bitten by a venomous snake at the bottom.
Brock Leach, 14, tumbled over a cliff edge and bounced off outcroppings and rocks during his descent - before landing on a ledge.
But as he tried to clamber to safety before the tide came in Brock suddenly felt a sharp pain in the hand he'd been using to help pull himself along.
He was horrified to discover he had been bitten by an adder - the only native venomous snake in the UK.
The fall was witnessed by his brother Josh, 16, who rushed to his aid and tried to get him to higher ground.
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Mrs Leach, who also has two other sons, Oliver, 19, and Samuel, 18, heard the rescue helicopter from their home while she was speaking to her husband Dean, 43, online from Vietnam, where he is working as an ocean exploration scientist.
But she had no idea her sons were involved until Josh arrived home a short while later accompanied by a coastguard.
The incident took place at the clifftop at Trebarwith Strand on Sunday when it is believed Brock slipped on some lichen.
Josh said he saw him fall and, despite being frightened and shocked himself, went to his brother's rescue, scrambling down the steep incline to reach Brock's side.
He said: "He was still conscious and talking, I got him out of the way to a higher ledge because the sea was coming in. I said to stay there, but he wanted to go with me."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
One for the books!
Minority Accountant?
How True Grit is this?
It's the hitting the ground part of the fall.
“Talk about bad luck, fall off a cliff, survive and the get bitten by the one and only venomous snake in the UK. What are the odds?”
And on top of that, he got an atomic wedgie when they pulled him to the top of the cliff by his underwear.
You beat me to it...amazing that his local NIH hospital had anti-venom in stock. Thought you normally went on a waiting list for that in the UK.
More odd goings on in the Kingdom.
Police in stand-off with garden ornament they thought was snake
It’s not the fall that kills you but the sudden stop at the end.
Goes with this guy:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3315358/posts
Lucky kid. Falling off the cliff only to be bitten by a snake. Talk about adding insult to injury. (No wonder it is called an adder!)
One for the “Oh, what a day I’m having” file.
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