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Revising the Brown Snake Story

2009 Reader Submission
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More information has come about on your older story in Australia, where a man collected a brown snake and later had his arm amputated.

http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1999-18.html

From this new news article, the man claims he was trying to kill himself, as a result of having a hard time getting custody of his children. Still very dumb, I agree, but an interesting twist. Surely there's a better way to achieve his goal?

Here it is; http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25048259-17001,00.html

Submitted on 02/12/2009

Submitted by: Alan Hilvert-Bruce
Reference: Northern Territory News; February 13, 2009 07:30am

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Since the original submission is listed as unconfirmed I guess this will provide some additional detail for Darwin. Thanks for the update, Alan.

James said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Gadzooks, what an interesting story! Darwin definitely ought to see this! Thanks, Alan!

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