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Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Teen disabled on a dare after swallowing slug leans on family, friends

Sam Ballard, who has been profoundly disabled since swallowing a garden slug at a party as a dare at 19, has an amazing support group of family and friends in Australia.

Sam became a quadriplegic and has to be tube-fed after contracting rat lungworm from the backyard slug in 2010.

On Sunday evening, his friends Jimmy Galvin and Michael Sheasby appeared on Sunday Project alongside Sam's mom, Katie, to discuss how the 28-year-old’s life changed after that night.

“We were sitting over here, having a bit of a red wine appreciation night, trying to act as grown-ups, and a slug came crawling across here.

“The conversation came up, 'Should I eat it?' Off Sam went. Bang. That’s how it happened,” Galvin said.

More
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/04/02/teen-left-severely-disabled-after-swallowing-slug-looks-to-family-friends-for-support.html

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are a lot of things in life that make me wonder if homo sapiens really are the most intelligent species. Eating slugs, Tide pods, snorting condoms.
Darwin would be very disappointed.

Anonymous said...

More proof that we need to take voting, gun ownership, drinking, away from kids under 21.

Anonymous said...

Extremely sad

Zorro said...

Sounds like today's Hillary voting college kiddies

Anonymous said...

And now he's the slug, only a real slug gets there faster.

Anonymous said...

You are what you eat...

Anonymous said...

Sad....no stupid...got exactly what this clown deserves....lesson learned here....stupid choices may just leave you in waste.

Anonymous said...

Extremely stupid methinks.

Anonymous said...

Another reason not to drink from the garden hose.

Anonymous said...

kind of like eating Tide Pods

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry, did "I" do something wrong here???

Whew for a moment I thought I was being blamed since I stayed in my lane. Glad it was the parents of the slug swallowing, pod eating, condom snorting kids who were WRONG!

Anonymous said...

He ate a slug, and became a vegetable!


I'll be here all week folks, try the veal.