Rescue 911: Bloke vs. Nasty Australian Snake

[@DarkVoidIII]

This was in my home town! I am forever grateful to the doctors and nurses in the Mareeba District Hospital, as I had visited there on a few occasions for wound treatment!

[@PrincessEli82]

I’m sure Brian told his grandchildren about this. He was pretty brave to do what he did to help.

[@PrincessEli82]

Brian and Bernie Jo deserve most of the credit. They may get their own “It’s A Wonderful Life” someday and see what life would be like if they didn’t exist.

[@PrincessEli82]

I'm sure Clive, whose almost 90, will always hold a place in his heart for his rescuers. The snake was thinking "Oh, what's this?" Then "I think I'll bite this old man's leg."

[@Bluegirl285]

I love it when, after Clive mentioned his mates telling him to have the snake bite him on the head next time to put more hair there, you hear some of the production team laughing.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Clive’s story needs to be made into a movie for theatre screens by Francis Ford Coppola.

[@generichuman2044]

It's almost exactly 30 years since this happened. I wonder how everyone from this story is doing. I hope that young nurse went on to have a brilliant career

[@VW_Fan]

"I am glad we had professional help" "I had no experience.."

[@ILoveOldTWC]

It had to have sucked for her to get puked on.

[@justinbruce324]

But holy F*** that is a huge bite!!! A taipan snake can do that much damage???

[@DedraAmbroseandSnow]

Yes they can.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Definitely.

[@FischerFan]

Very easily. Just imagine having a dual hypodermic needle slammed onto you up to a dozen times. It's just kapow kapow kapow! THAT'S a coastal taipan attack! Oh, and as for dry bites; no such thing with these snakes. They envemonate! Same deal with the black mamba.

[@nopcshere6097]

Taipans are badasses. The scariest part about them is they sneak into houses and aren't afraid to bite, and bite multiple times like a black mamba or Indian cobra.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

They should be blasted with a shotgun to smithereens.

[@TheHeadlessHorseman]

12:27 one of the rare occasions you hear the cameraman/crew laugh or react to something

[@ILoveOldTWC]

This is a coastal taipan. I've read that the inland ones are even worse than the one here! It not only has a neurotoxin but a hemotoxin also. Hemotoxin isn't typically found in elepides but the taipan is an exception. Hemotoxin are typically found in pit vipers like the ones here in the United States, rattlers, cottonmouths and copperheads.

[@rebeccaswift7588]

For years I wanted to go to Australia so I did as much research as I could. Once I learned of all the deadly animals, bigs, spiders and reptiles it burst my dream of ever going..

[@Rickyyspano]

just stay in the urban areas and you’ll be fine. i’ve lived in australia my whole life and the animal thing is a huge exaggeration

[@birbistic-5431]

I’ve lived here my whole life, it’s an exaggeration. Never seen a dangerous animal. Every country has dangerous animals

[@jaym-bu3cr]

If I was there id watch everywhere I walk because I hear that snakes can be seen in​ the suburbs as well

[@mindstorms247]

Really? I would drive a golf cart lifted there worries are over.

[@theducksanctuary951]

My absolute worst fears. I love all animals and reptiles I don’t wanna see harm come to them though, snakes 🐍 are just something different.. nope! Glad he survived... Lord have Mercy...

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

theducksantuary951, When was the last time that you read the book of Genesis?

[@2Sweeet]

Rescue 911 didn't censor shit. LOL Gotta' miss those days.

[@Jerzeenana2024]

Hi

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Where's Steve Irwin when you really need him?

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Busy elsewhere no doubt.

[@Hezelcarl1]

True this happened in Australia however this is also an American show which is named after a US rescue number

[@DedraAmbroseandSnow]

This IS OUR RESCUE 911 SHOW DUMBASS

[@rebeccaswift7588]

So why does that matter..aussies use triple 0 or triple 9 for emergency rescue ..

[@pizzagal7]

Wow, this is crazy! 1. Why is there an Australian episode of an American show? 2. I just happen to live on Brady Rd, just outside of Mareeba. 3. I know the casualty area of the Mareeba District Hospital, and it has not changed at all! Oh, and Clive Brady passed away two years ago at the age of 89.

[@PrincessEli82]

Sandra Chapman Oh how sad 😔. It’s been 28 years since he was bitten by the snake. Brian and Bernie Jo deserve most of the credit. If they weren’t there, Clive wouldn’t have made it. Did you know actor Hugh Jackman is from Australia himself? But he was born in Sydney.

[@Jerzeenana2024]

2:57 The snake said hi to the camera lol!😂❤️

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Good grief! That joke’s as old as Mark Fuhrman.

[@angelagreen3642]

I hope he found the Lord before he passed at the good age of 89.

[@cosimocasdia6534]

Good job save that old man

[@ILoveOldTWC]

I'm glad I live in the United States of America where we are safe from these kinds of deadly venomous snakes. Granted, we have rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and copperheads, even coral snakes, which is an elapid like the taipans, but even when they bite, it's a single bite and not multiple and we have the antivenin for them.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

I've googled and looked it up on wikipedia inland taipans vs. coastal taipans as well as the location in Australia that William Shatner said this occurred in, and my conclusion is that this was more than likely a coastal one. The coastal taipan is far more aggressive than the inland. Mareeba is on the northeast coast of Queensland.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

That’s north of Brisbane alright. Anyway, surely the retail stores in Brisbane would want to sell everything from cowboy boots 👢 to expensive luxurious sets of matched luggage 🧳 from leather goods manufacturers like Gucci, especially if the leather goods are made from the hides of taipans and other such venomous species.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

If Mr. Clive Brady was 63 then, he's 91 now, since 1991 was 28 years ago, if he's still with us. If he's no longer with us, I know it was NOT because of that cruel and vicious coastal taipan snake biting him 3 times. I counted, of course it could've been more then 3, since this was a reenactment.

[@jenniferwills9752]

4:00 "i need help, mate! Ive been bitten by a snake! Im coming over! " "No no! Stay where you are, mate, and we'll come across to you!"

[@Mmolesy]

To all you 'mericans. Grog is Australian slang for beer. Lol

[@justinbruce324]

Taipan's are one of the most deadliest snakes ever...

[@torimig2151]

Cobras to and rattle snake s

[@DedraAmbroseandSnow]

In America the most deadly snake we have is a correl snake. They are black, yellow, and red. There's a king snake is the same colors. How to tell the differences between them is red touching yellow kill a fellow. Red touching black friend of Jack. The red touch black is a king snake and will kill and eat a red touching yellow. Don't think for 1 moment that these small snakes can't bite you. They damn sure can. I've seen videos where a corral snake has struck and bitten dogs as well as people. I've lost 2 dogs to a corral snake bite.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Which is why they’re only good for becoming leather goods from cowboy boots 👢 to expensive luxurious sets of matched luggage 🧳 from companies like Gucci.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Gucci could easily corner the leather goods market with cobraskin wallets in no time flat.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

DeborahAmbroseandSnow, As a fellow American, I think that maybe it’s just about time that someone issued a bounty on the coral snakes in the USA 🇺🇸, because their venom is so deadly that they’re related to the cobras of both Africa and Asia. The bounty would be made payable through leather goods manufacturers like Gucci who’ll then turn the hides into everything from cowboy boots 👢 to expensive luxurious sets of matched luggage 🧳, and even if a few of the king snakes wind up in the tanneries where the leather is processed, it’s their fault, and not ours. Besides, I think that maybe Gucci could easily corner the market on rattler skin wallets?!

[@ILoveOldTWC]

The solution is don't go swimming where you know these horrendous snakes are.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

At not until after a proper sized bounty has been posted on their hides by leather goods manufacturers like Gucci in order to make everything from cowboy boots 👢 to expensive luxurious sets of matched luggage 🧳 for the consumers leather goods market.

[@stedmans4christ]

All of the nurses and 911 people say they think its probably nothing at first

[@allies7184]

This is strange! Australia's rescue number is 000, not 911. This episode should be called "Rescue 000". I'd definitely watch an Australian rescue team show.

[@franlefroy6073]

+Maia Webb no it is good because it is easier to remember

[@martinencinal3073]

+Fran Lefroy and easier to accidentally butt dial.

[@whistlingninja11]

Most segments of this show take place in the USA or Canada, where the number is 911. So for simplicity's sake (I think), they just leave the name as Rescue 911 even when a segment takes place in another country.

[@transgenderisevilyoureallg7979]

Allie S... we do have our own rescue show its called Emergency 000 or the other one is 000 Hero's!!

[@jamescarroll6217]

Allie S actually the emergency number for Australia and the UK is 999 not 000

[@bloozal8788]

I love the slang

[@Gothic_Princess_17]

Qhat a nasty snake he was mean

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

They’re all mean. From the taipan which bit the old gentleman to the man-eating anacondas. Better than the leather goods manufacturers like Gucci turn them into everything from cowboy boots 👢 to expensive luxurious sets of matched luggage 🧳.

[@officialchase02]

What type of snake what is this I know it was a taipan but what kind of taipan was it

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Was this a coastal taipan or inland taipan?

[@GoldRangerFanGirl35]

It was an inland taipan

[@ILoveOldTWC]

@@GoldRangerFanGirl35 Actually, I looked up the location, and it's near the coast, so it was probably a coastal taipan.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Good question.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

They all should have a bounty on their hides from leather goods manufacturers like Gucci.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Possibly.

[@isaelsifuentes9449]

Never underestimate the power of God

[@melissasteward6211]

Supposed To Swim In Pools & Water Park See You Don't Know What's Out There In That Nasty Water

[@kevinpalmer9756]

In Australia, it's Rescue 000 (triple zero),. not 911. ;)

[@Interstate107]

How could a snake go backwards

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Got kicked just after the third bite.

[@kevinpalmer9756]

Clive died in 2017 at the age of 89.

[@TJS1981]

www.adelaidenow.com.au/tributes/notice/funeral-notices/clive-brady/4943923/

[@Julie86Mac]

Snakes aren't poisonous, they are venomous!

[@andybub45]

Was that a black mamba?

[@justinbruce1437]

Taipan Snake it's not even black what r you high on

[@ILoveOldTWC]

It's in the same family. Elapids, which includes the black mamba, cobras, taipans, coral snakes (the only species that live in the United States). Their venom is a neurotoxin, whereas the pit vipers like copperheads, cottonmouths and rattlesnakes venom is a hemotoxin. The former attack the nervous system, the latter attacks the blood.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

andybub25, I think that you have your African species mixed up with your Australian species.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Taipans should be among those that the leather goods manufacturers like Gucci make into everything from cowboy boots 👢 to expensive luxurious sets of matched luggage 🧳.

[@TheHeadlessHorseman]

8:12 what the crap?

[@isaelsifuentes9449]

God sent those doctors to save you

[@jonmacdonald5345]

Isael Sifuentes He also sent that snake to bite him!!

[@DedraAmbroseandSnow]

@@jonmacdonald5345 bull shit moron.

[@brianmears3388]

These creatures are evil!

[@Julie86Mac]

i hope he found God before he died!

[@1950dallas]

Walking With Dinosaurs Rescue 000

[@svetlanikolova7673]

anti venim should be in the ambulance !!!!!

[@DedraAmbroseandSnow]

The anti vinom has to stay cold. There's no way to do that in an ambulance.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Possibly.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Only if packed in dry ice.

[@sexychelseacharms1861]

RICE

[@naowright9308]

God didn't want snakes to bite people. God put people in paradise, but they messed it all up listening to and following a snake's directions. Now snakes are cursed to go on their bellies and eat dust all their lives. There is also enmity between humans and snakes because of it. You can read the whole story in the book of Genesis.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Genesis 3. That snake was really Satan. He was more subtle than any other beast of the field. Eve's fault. She gave the fruit to Adam and he ate.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

I’ve read the book of Genesis many times in my life.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

But Satan was in possession of the serpent, and therefore it proves that the snakes are the true pets of the Devil, not common domestic cats as the Puritans assumed.