Star Wars stormtrooper suit saves man from deadly snakebite

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An Australian man who is walking around the country for charity in a Stormtrooper costume has been saved from a potentially deadly snake bite by his armour.

Scott Loxley, who has raised $40,000 for the Monash Children’s Hospital so far, was on day 277 of his 15,000km journey across Australia, when he came across a King Brown snake as he was leaving Yalboroo in Queensland.

Initially thinking the snake was dead, Mr Loxley went to walk past it when it began to move.

“Turns out it wasn’t dead”, he said in a video on his Facebook page.

“It was a big old King Brown.”

“And he’s lunged at me and bit me in the shin”.

“The armour actually protected me and stopped the bite,” Mr Loxley said, laughing in his video.

“I could feel the teeth on the plastic, scraping, but the armour actually stopped something.”

Mr Loxley was quick to defend the Stormtroopers from George Lucas’ popular Star Wars series, where they are infamous for being defeated very easily.

“So all those people that rag on the old Stormtroopers, you know, ‘the armour doesn’t do this it, doesn’t do that’, it stopped a snake bite and probably saved my life today.”

The Australian Geographic site lists the Mulga Snake, commonly known as the King Brown, as the sixth most dangerous snake in Australia, saying it has the “largest-recorded venom output of any in the world - delivering 150mg in one bite”.
Mr Loxley hopes to raise $100,000 for the hospital by the end of his journey. (Facebook)

Mr Loxley has been travelling through Queensland since last month, after making the long journey through Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and across northern Australia.

He hopes to raise $100,000 for the Monash Children’s Hospital by the end of his journey.

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