Headline of the Week

The Herald proclaims:

Agony after spider bites trouser snake

Who isn’t going to read that story?

A tourist suffered heart inflammation after being bitten on the penis apparently by a katipo spider, following a skinny-dip in Northland.

The 22-year-old Canadian left his clothes in the sand dunes while he went for a nude swim and slept on his return, according to a report on the case in today’s online NZ Medical Journal. “He woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite.

As it was in Northland, I wouldn’t assume it was necessarily a spider 🙂