[arista]

[A man who was left paralysed
after eating a slug as a dare at
a birthday party has died at the age of 28.
Sam Ballard, from Sydney, Australia,
was 19 in 2010 when he ate the
creature which was infected with rat lungworm.
Mr Ballard, who was a keen rugby player,
fell into a coma for 420 days after
contracting a strand of meningitis
called eosinophilic meningoencephalitis.]


I can see a dare at 19 years old would be funny.
but this was Tragic as the deadly "rat lungworm"
was inside the slug.

https://news.sky.com/story/australia...ed-28-11545373