Funnel Web Bite Interview

Geoff is just like you. He thought he was safe…until he wasn’t.
Watch his spine-crawling recount of his potentially fatal encounter with one of our most deadly arachnids right in his own backyard.

[@shingnosis]

Well, it was a great story until the "survival lady" came in and ruined it. lol.

[@DavidJung03]

Yeah, WTF happened afterwards???

[@selven08]

Yeah WTF, "Funnel snake kit"

[@x1zane]

@hahaha hahaha agreed

[@australianpatriot]

@hahaha hahaha its an excuse for her to tell her sob story

[@Cyaotic]

What is she laughing about

[@FazeLyndon]

I wanted him to carry on the story

[@frozeneternity93]

No! Time for promo stuff!

[@LordGryllwotth]

@@frozeneternity93 they have learned from the best.

[@SethDraconis]

Lmao that tone deaf transition.

[@Heopful]

i had a fuckin heart attack holy shit

[@michaelramirez1444]

Hello sheik

[@goodsolonius7305]

Splitting headache, chest tightness, excruciating pain, double vision Nurse: "It may have been a dry bite"

[@erikcruzchavez766]

Esperaron demasiado para dar el tratamiento, sin contar el tiempo que paso desde la mordida hasta que llegó al lugar

[@ptr9747]

very incompetent nurse. Sydney Funnels NEVER perform dry bites. The dude is lucky because he handled it correctly and , above all, it was likely a female which has a less lethal/potent venom than a male. In fact, contrary to the vast majority of other spiders, the life threatening venom belongs to the male.

[@Whateverworksism]

@@erikcruzchavez766 Administrating anti-venom is not free and can cause serious side-effects. Doing proper medical assessment before administrating is common practice.. But of course youtube is full of professional doctors..

[@EpicHotCheese]

That survival lady came in at the worst time possible with the worst tone and worst transition I’ve ever seen. It’s so bad you couldn’t do it even if you try... 🤣

[@thesadattic1065]

Her entrance was more sudden and painful than a funnel web spider bite.

[@australianpatriot]

@@thesadattic1065 also what was so funny

[@Anieckieee]

What lady? I don't see anyone and definitely not someone talking?

[@onox4740]

wtf is with the comments saying there's a lady at the end of this video!? what fken lady, I don't see a lady!

[@TasmanianTigerGrrr]

@@onox4740 Theres only music there now , just like myspace.

[@JoeOnaBoat]

the ending of the video was more scary than the spider story. was that lady just waiting outside the camera, waiting to pounce with all her kits? im suspicious of her intentions

[@jwilli726]

nobody is suspicious of yours tho, you seem totally trustworthy

[@Officialmotive805]

In the US, they would have some dramatic reenactment of the man going to the hospital.

[@brummiestu]

Wearing a thong

[@Liamitis123]

And CGI of the bite and the venom flowing thru his veins. Then they cut to commercial, come back and show the exact same footage a second time before getting to the same part where the woman stepped in this video...but cut to commercial come back and replay all the same footage a 3rd time, before the brief happy ending.

[@Officialmotive805]

@@Liamitis123 Nailed it.

[@CodyWallace78]

In Australia, they make fun of Americans. In America, we don't even bother with Australia because #1 you guys can't even afford to make a movie with CGI and that's actually the cheap way to do it, #2 just one of our major cities probably equals the population of your entire continent, #3 your military is a joke, #4 you guys have guns because you gave them up for the illusion of safety on a continent where absolutely everything is trying to kill you, #5 most if not all of the big name celebrities that have come out of Australia all ended up living in America. I mean you guys really don't have much to talk about, and that's why you have to make fun of America, because there's nothing else to do. Funny thing is, most if not all of you would hop a plane and fly here if the opportunity arose, and don't say you wouldn't either. The population of Australia is only about 19 million, and only about half of those are women, so about 9.5 million women in Australia, and of those women, only a fraction of them are actually attractive. So you're looking at what, less than 1 million women on your entire continent might be considered hot, if that? Yeah, there's a number of reasons Chris Hemsworth and Mel Gibson left Australia.

[@PilloTheStar]

@@CodyWallace78 Who put a spider in your Cheerios?

[@KaoruSugimura]

"funnel web snake bite kit" Wait, what?

[@lukmanhakim6461]

impressive, huh ?

[@ulaB]

Yep, if I ever make it to Australia, I'm not going to leave my hotel room.

[@johnhaward7702]

*gets bitten in the room while having "do not disturb" sign outside the door, so no one enters to help* hahaha

[@fiercegamer5691]

Avoid Sydney mate you’ll be right

[@Boyl151]

They would still be in your shoes

[@jedm686]

Haha I’ve been to Sydney heaps of times because I have family there (I live in Perth) and I’ve only seen two of the fuckers. They’re pussies as well as soon as I looked at it the thing fucked of

[@SuperPrestogamer]

I hate to tell you…They are common in households as well…Inside shows, And boxes, Even can be in cupboards…Double check where your reaching for stuff…Cause they are good at hiding

[@Zealot20]

lol funnel webs never give a dry bite, they are all in when they bite

[@carlg.6628]

😲

[@mikedebbie2889]

So do I stayed tuned for part 2... where the guy actually finishes the story?

[@saland705]

He died in hospital...

[@Micaela1527]

@@saland705 😂 No he didn't

[@KingJulienMoto]

@@Micaela1527 He did though. It’s his ghost in the video, talking about this experience.

[@jamescho5990]

I wanted to hear the full story!!!!

[@mathewstubbs2117]

For everyone else - DO NOT attempt to catch a spider or snake after your bitten. Get a pressure bandage on that sh*t and go to the hospital. They can test the bite there

[@generalbutterscotch4887]

In the funnel web's case, it's actually in your best interest to bring the specimen with you due to how many of them are needed just to produce a single dose of antivenom. Let alone the fact that it's one of the few spiders on earth that actually _needs_ an antivenom in the first place.

[@r.k862]

@@generalbutterscotch4887 i doubt they will use that spider to produce anti venom. The first thing to do is to use ice on that area and even on the whole body part, a lot of ice and also to bandage that body part immediately

[@The_Room_Of_Arachnids]

It is impossible to “Test” the bite...

[@Scrappy-Youtube]

@@r.k862 if you are in sydney, then any sydney funnel webs get sent straight to the reptile park for venom milking

[@Scrappy-Youtube]

@@The_Room_Of_Arachnids pretty sure they just try and get some of the venom out from the bite site and test it somehow

[@hebneh]

I was bitten by a brown violin spider, which is a relative of the feared brown recluse in North America. There were no symptoms for a full day, till my leg got very sore. It took days for the pain - which only was evident when I first started walking in the morning after waking up - to gradually go away. Brown recluse bites are notorious for necrotizing and enlarging and not healing for weeks or months, which is the spider's digestive chemicals, and there's no way to stop that. I was very worried about that possibility, but fortunately it never happened. Regardless, I remain uneasy about spider bites! So why am I watching THIS horror story?

[@JusZard]

So happy your okay !!

[@katefromaust5627]

I've never heard a first hand account of a FW bite. Very informative. So glad you're OK!

[@strongestnattyever-videos2247]

Thank you... yes I recovered, and am lucky!

[@fatkidwithfudge]

Really though? Y'all cut it way too early.

[@andrewisotope8146]

When he'd had the anti venom he became Blade lol

[@RageCage1701]

I'm having an anxiety attack just listening to this.

[@lisamcdonald1014]

Same

[@jonathankieranwriter]

Great story of an Aussie family that obviously knew the protocol for those bites and did all the right things, admirably. But how does the story END?

[@andocobo]

He lived

[@thegorn9904]

Thanks for this first hand account, Geoff. I've lived all my life in Sydney without ever coming across a funnel web, then yesterday my dog bailed one up in the kitchen near the back door, so I'm on a bit of a fact-finding mission. Sounds like you handled it all beautifully, Great to see you survived the ordeal. Fortunately none of us were bitten. I have what I now realise to be a male funnel web in a container with some moist soil to keep him happy (and no, they certainly can't jump, so he was relatively easy to catch with the container and piece of stiff paper method). He was so busy rearing up ready to attack that he stayed pretty stationery. They are the most aggressive spider I have ever seen. Despite being so concerned for my two dogs, I have now realised that I was in way more danger from the funnel web than my pets. They are primarily dangerous to primates. He was just inside the back sliding door to the porch, where all our shoes are sitting. I can hear my mother's voice echoing to always shake out your shoes or gardening gloves before putting them on, but there have certainly been times, especially over the last few, rain-soaked weeks, where I have walked out the back door and just quickly slipped on my shoes without checking! So I could relate to your casual, "just quickly slip on the thongs" account :) I'm taking Fred, who still seems to be doing well in his container with breathing holes poked in the top and damp soil to keep him hydrated, up to the Reptile Park today, in the hopes he can be part of the anti-venom program.

[@g.h.7661]

Love how you named this thing. Hope things worked out with getting Fred to mitigate the harm caused by his species!

[@Gooie69]

Just burn your house down and move to Tasmania.

[@Tha3rdworldghost]

Update?

[@DayMan..]

Funny I name my orb wevers all Fred.

[@jtggrant87]

@@Tha3rdworldghosthe died unfortunately.

[@jamespayter6948]

FFS traveling to Sydney on Tuesday. Flame thrower at the ready

[@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

Those bastards can be in the leaf catcher in the pool as well as under water and survive underwater for hours

[@AutoRiff]

The best way to deal with a funnel web spider bite is to...never fucking go to Australia in the first place.

[@MrNeilcster]

Very informative, sorry that happened to you.

[@Llama052]

What an awful Segway into the advertising by cutting the dude off and being obnoxious

[@dabraapman5257]

pretty sure funnel webs don't have dry bites at all

[@Amithrius]

Never do yard work in thongs

[@brandonbrady4066]

What is a thong? Is it like a flip flop? Sorry, I am from the US, when he said thong, i thought he had gotten bit somewhere very different..

[@johnmagus6341]

Yep. Aussie for flip flop.

[@JebediahSpringfield]

don't tell me what to do, its too hot here

[@keelyleilani1326]

@@brandonbrady4066 I live in the U.S. and we always used the word thongs and flip flops interchangeably unless referring to the g-string.

[@ChrisM-bn5vr]

@@keelyleilani1326 I'm an Aussie who lives in the US and never once in my life met an American who uses the word thongs to refer to flip flops, most have no idea that Aussies call them thongs.

[@jonassteinberg3779]

This guy is fearless lol. I would have been trrrriiiiipppppiiiin

[@lachlanbell8773]

Fucking oath

[@theshape3988]

Ouch! That would be a horrible pain

[@TheFiown]

I honestly couldn't live in a country where spiders or snakes or grizzlies could kill me, not that it's safer in certain US states at the moment. I remember washing my hands in a stream in southern India and suddenly noticed a huge Cobra opposite me just looking and thought no way!

[@ned2315]

Where is this lady everyone talking about?

[@Boyl151]

Leo there’s a survival kit thing at the end

[@WK12112]

“...I said the kit didn’t work. Then the people that make the Snake Bite kits put a gun to my head and said -“ “OKAYYY THANKS FOR THE FUN STORY TIME TO GO NOW!”

[@malloryknox6946]

The woman at the end startled me, much like a funnelweb spider

[@onox4740]

what woman!?

[@ferdidintinosante4740]

I looked up were they live and I live there -_-

[@jamconnell1377]

id rather do a round with mike tyson than meet a funnel web spider

[@joeibrahim7553]

A seamless transition

[@JusZard]

You left your thongs on ? What in the world ? Jk great story stay safe so happy your okay !!

[@jonasklingberg822]

Interesting video, but why would you want to put background music as loud as the speaker's voice?

[@TasmanianTigerGrrr]

Quicksilver guy: Normally i wear a pair of gumboots but on this occasion i decided to wear a pair of funnel webs instead.

[@roxyamber3537]

I’m so happy I live in the uk but I really want to move to Australia but I can spot a spider probably a mile away ahahaha

[@infineon20]

@Issac C Plenty of false widow spiders though

[@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

The bastards can bite through leather boots, the guy could've been bitten in a different spot

[@TopKekMadLad]

Bruh.. i got bit by a false widow.. this dude got worse 100%

[@gerrett108]

When the "honeydo" list, almost gets you killed....

[@stilltlrforlife]

Lady: What did the spider look like? Me: A Fucking dolphin...WTF? Like we got time for this shit.

[@r.k862]

They need to ask so they know which anti venom they might use. It is important

[@Whateverworksism]

@@r.k862 Exactly, these comments lol..

[@alwaysright3718]

Who listens to their wife?

[@missdoglover1644]

We’re going to take the pressure bandage off now so all the venom rushes through your system at once. Makes sense.

[@recessiv3]

The anitvenom is ridiculously hard to get, they simply can't afford to waste it. He's at hospital, there's almost no way he would have died.

[@MrDarkmenace1]

Well thats obviously the way to deal with it then according to a doctor trained in this situation. Would you have done something different?

[@squiremuldoon5462]

Why do people even live in australia?

[@schneevongestern9898]

Sorry, Australia. But you are a country that would be a terrible nightmare for me to live in. Everything there is incredibly venomous and creepy. Spiders, snakes, jellyfish, ants. And not the "slightly irritating or painful" way of venomous. It is the "if you don't get the antivenom fast enough you will die a painful death" kind of venomous a little bit too often. Pure horror. I just could not live there. Or basically any other tropical region.

[@g.h.7661]

These are so frightening. It’s insane bc here in British Columbia, Canada we have black widows who are not in the slightest bit aggressive, will only bite as a last resort, the vast majority of the time will not cause significant permanent injury (besides pain and feeling sick) & certainly won’t kill most people, yet people never shut up about how dangerous they are. This is nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to a FW spider’s bite

[@munter10]

Guys got a nice property, lesson learned.. never listen to your wife’s requests.

[@barnyg6804]

Talking of dry bites bloody Eastern Brown dry bit me on my left calf muscle nurse at the hospital said I was a lucky boy that was in 1986 didn't really feel much just a bump on my leg it was me mate walking behind me that saw him strike at me.

[@tessafox1329]

Damn I want the whole story glad you survived.

[@m.scottreeder]

I wanted to hear this survivor’s account of the spider bite, and the medical complications that affect the victim. Instead, I had to mentally block out that hip hop noise in the background. That’s when I gave up, and moved on to another video.

[@Clearbluesky101]

People should move to Canada

[@josefmazzeo6628]

I'd rather deal with FWs rather than the vipers up to there. By vipers I mean the two legged ones with forked tongues in your government.

[@specialorder9379]

Excellent story in relaying symptoms and after effects of a funnel web bite. Then survival lady shows up all awkwardly holding too many medical kits and can’t remember her lines. *facepalm*

[@lisamcdonald1014]

🤦‍♂️

[@Boltbacker83]

WTF did you abruptly cut off the ending of the story. Amateur hour.

[@TheWheelofLife100]

I heard this guy became spider man for real and they cloned him to make more spider mans, but then the clones died from suspicious circumstances.

[@u3962521]

Shivers, spider attached to foot can't shake it off

[@khaldrogo7532]

The ending was super awkward XD

[@PerpetratorPulse]

Shame such a beautiful country but i wont live there because of those creatures😢

[@sulaimaanjeeraz9539]

this guy is from no doubt Australia

[@misanthropicisolation4013]

*This guy is no doubt from Australia. Fixed it for you

[@wildbld]

Yeah, his accent is a slight clue! @Sasha Harney

[@maicolll]

Well, the spider that bit him is almost exclusively from Sydney.

[@dlazyace9116]

He knew exactly what to do when bitten. So-does all Aussies know this procedure when bitten by funnel web spider?

[@BebeBonet]

@@dlazyace9116 Yes. Have to. We have the most deadly spiders and snakes in the world. Drop bears are far more deadly though.

[@IssacG.]

Im no expert, but I’d say thats a human not a spider

[@simonpaterson9648]

Wonder if it was a male or female? makes a huge difference, as Males are 6 times as deadly as the female.

[@BillybobJoelikestrains]

the story was getting good and then i got jump scared

[@dankstabs]

so they wait till you are about to die. thats like bro waitong till 1 second to res

[@KrystelSpicerMindArkLateralThi]

You must have been so nervous. Gee. Real life story hey.

[@Amblinman]

What an abrupt ending. I wanna know. Did he survive????🤣🤣🤣

[@SurvivalTV]

Can confirm Geoff survived 🤗

[@vxrdrummer]

I do my gardening in just a thong as well!

[@stephenjester9577]

Wow your very brave im very sorry that this happend to u

[@mikerope5785]

Did he call wellies "Gumbards"?

[@evan4534]

doing dad moves all over the place

[@heisenberg1898]

I wanted to hear the rest of the story.

[@fredkelly4365]

Where is that? Long Reef?

[@fraerot]

Without photos is boring...

[@TONY_FEZ]

is there a part 2 to this story?

[@f1at111]

Ouch, but there's worse.

[@82Catfish]

lol NICE editing -_-

[@truthseekerKJV]

Oy.... I though I would be a real dumb ass today and walk around with no foot protection where Funnelwebs roam, and Oy Vey, to my stupid surprise, I saw a Sydney Funnelweb on my foot. I felt real intelligent at this point.

[@jonahcass2793]

Here from a reddit comment

[@jamdamonium]

Also joining this roll call

[@JoeOnaBoat]

hello its me joe from joe on a boat

[@pauldolan9077]

Um yeah a dry bite with a Funnel wed um don't think so hahaha 😅

[@OzzF16]

Yea the doctor apparently doesn't have a clue, funnel webs are highly aggressive and never dry bite at all

[@lewiswilson1913]

0:17

[@lannon4prez]

Listen Australia.. you have first aid kits for funnel web spider bites. This is not normal behavior.

[@khajiit4444]

A bite from a Funnel-Web spider must always be considered like a venomous bite, the anti-venom research center is clear on that.

[@spikehofmann]

With the Australian penchant for nicknames, these are often called 'webbos'

[@debbiemcclure2874]

Ummm how u not gona let the man finish the story??😲😲 That's jus wrong😲🙄😲🙄

[@fredjones4820]

I had no idea that a funnel web could give a dry bite. Every pet one I had would have venom dripping from their fangs. I know a guy who had a dry inland taipan bite and the clueless police interviewed him before allowing him into the ambulance.

[@Pjcolts]

looks like an awesome patio

[@josefmazzeo6628]

Glad he survived but this ending is almost as anti-climactic as the last episode of the Sopranos.

[@sloughcorpse]

Straight away

[@contingency9]

Is that it???

[@christiangasior4244]

That’s it?

[@bflmpsvz870]

you are supposed to tie your leg upwards from the bite to restrict the blood flow so the venom does not circulate further to your body. Tying up your foot does not do much for you.

[@cybitner6159]

I used to mow and do yard work in my bare feet, I dont think I'd survive in Australia 🤣

[@joeyboogenz]

I think I'm gonna pass on an Australia vacation. Between the salties, Great Whites, Brown snakes ,,Huntsmans , redbacks . I think I'll take my chances in the sunshine state !!!!

[@alias5335]

Nie rouzime😢

[@baldieman64]

And?

[@Confad22]

Dont they wander at night? I dunno I lived in Killara, never saw one during the day

[@martinmoore5335]

Always wats with the stupid background shit sound an music !!!!!!!

[@mirchotsonev4079]

Soundtrack please

[@Tsuna24153]

Sick found a mosquito on me I think I might get malaria

[@ferdidintinosante4740]

I love going bush walking

[@JamesStonley]

And this is why I could never live in OZ