Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we take your stories about being country tough. There's
Speaker 2: country tough, and then there's only in Australia. Only in
Speaker 2: Australia can there be a new story like this? This
Speaker 2: route out in a very nonchalent cashal way at five
Speaker 2: thirty am, which is what I came into the office
Speaker 2: to see Karl Stefanovitch barely getting his pulse straight up
Speaker 2: for this story like it was an and finally, only
Speaker 2: in Australia.
Speaker 1: A gold coast man is counting his lucky stars this
Speaker 1: morning after prying himself out of crocodile's jaws in Far
Speaker 1: North Queensland.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is such a scene and it's not
Speaker 3: that big a deal. Actually, we haven't got any footage.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: He's probably exaggerating it, to be honest, as anyone got
Speaker 2: my coffee.
Speaker 4: Marcus says he was out in the clear blue waters,
Speaker 4: but all of a sudden he felt like he was
Speaker 4: being attacked by a shark. That's what he thought, but
Speaker 4: then it instead turned out to be a.
Speaker 3: Croc bloody idiot. Come on mate, now a common mistake.
Speaker 3: Push up there, that old classic what a fool.
Speaker 4: He says, I was attacked from behind by a saltwater
Speaker 4: crocodile which got its jaws around my head, It continues,
Speaker 4: he was able to leave it its jaws open just
Speaker 4: far enough to get his head out.
Speaker 2: It's amazing that one guy could just have to guts
Speaker 2: or just to wear with all to do that without thinking.
Speaker 3: This is it.
Speaker 2: This is how it ends inside of crocodile's jaws.
Speaker 4: He then says. The croc tried to have another goal
Speaker 4: with him, Carl, but he managed to push it away,
Speaker 4: although it did bite his hands as it swam away.
Speaker 2: I think she sort of said Carl's name again just
Speaker 2: to try and wake him up, because at the beginning
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 3: He's got old slow crocodile eyes himself.
Speaker 1: A gold coast man is conning as Lucky Stars this
Speaker 1: morning after prying himself out of crocodile's jaws in far
Speaker 1: North Queensland.
Speaker 3: Come on, sleep God, that is when you're just reading
Speaker 3: the telepop.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're looking for your stories when you
Speaker 2: had to save yourself nine four one one four three Amanda,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Amanda. Okay, so what's your story
Speaker 2: for us when you had to save yourself.
Speaker 5: Well, a wasn't myself. Was my brother in law back
Speaker 5: in the eightiens. He was out in the pines cut
Speaker 5: and wooden and stuff and with the chainsawn and he's,
Speaker 5: you know, go good gun. And in ale of all
Speaker 5: of this, the chainsaw decides to kick back. Someone comes off,
Speaker 5: flicks up, hits him in the jaw, so on the
Speaker 5: front of the chin, down underneath the jaw, and down
Speaker 5: into the chest above the callboat. And he's realized, oh,
Speaker 5: that's done a bits, and he stopped and he's free
Speaker 5: his hand up and he goes, oh, what's a bit wet.
Speaker 5: And then he's realized, oh, chang's come off. What's a
Speaker 5: bit more than wet? And take his jump off that
Speaker 5: to theron his throat goes back over the years, look
Speaker 5: in the mirror. He goes, oh, that's a bit of he's.
Speaker 2: Not he's not the same guy who then, you know,
Speaker 2: years later from the eighties, he certainly got his head
Speaker 2: in the crocodile's mouth.
Speaker 3: Relaxed with someone who's severed his neck and collar bone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's pretty coolers with one of these young
Speaker 5: or you know, I've got something stuck in sol he's
Speaker 5: also had a nail through the side of his mouth
Speaker 5: into his into his tongue. And I've left that two
Speaker 5: days to go to the doctor.
Speaker 2: For two days before around the office looking like that.
Speaker 3: You're scaring the clients.
Speaker 5: Who change. He's looking to be he's got the jumper
Speaker 5: stuck against his troping.
Speaker 3: And what I do and it makes a quick torner,
Speaker 3: came around his own neck.
Speaker 5: Jumped in het miles miles back in the town, get
Speaker 5: yourself looked at sign up and he's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I've got a woozy driving and they's nobody wonder you know.
Speaker 5: I get you fixed up this I go hiding as well.
Speaker 5: Can't do that where you go? Now go and big
Speaker 5: out for the point. I'm going to go get the
Speaker 5: chainsaw and load the wood becking.
Speaker 3: With a stitched up neck like st Yes.
Speaker 5: Yep, he went back out. God he Chames loaded body
Speaker 5: cut up in the back of you didn't went home
Speaker 5: and had a.
Speaker 1: Wrist Only in Australia, a gold coast man is county
Speaker 1: his lucky Stars this morning after prying himself out of
Speaker 1: crocodile's jaws in far North Queensland.
Speaker 3: All right, Amanda, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: She called The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: When did you have to rescue yourself? This is quite
Speaker 2: some story from Jason. Good morning, Jason morning boys.
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 2: We're good Jason, So tell us your story when you
Speaker 2: had to save yourself.
Speaker 6: Oh, I got pants stuck in a hydraulic wood split eye.
Speaker 6: So what happened was the timber was quite naughty, was
Speaker 6: redwood or red dumb, and it exploded. And then as
Speaker 6: I tried to keep the timber in the wood splitter,
Speaker 6: the bit of timber moved to about a forty five
Speaker 6: degree angle, and at that stage my hand then got
Speaker 6: pinned between the backing plate and the and the bit
Speaker 6: of wood. So it was early in the morning and
Speaker 6: I was down the paddic by myself. So I had
Speaker 6: to wait for the boss to come back and take
Speaker 6: my smoke o order to avert him to the fact
Speaker 6: that I was stuck in the.
Speaker 3: Machine to what happened next.
Speaker 6: So well, for I'm there, I'd sort of had enough
Speaker 6: time to calm down because I was in the machine
Speaker 6: for about half an hour forty minutes. What and what
Speaker 6: and yeah, I tried. I tried to jump out, like
Speaker 6: I was using all my might to try and spring
Speaker 6: like spring forward and push all the way back as
Speaker 6: hard as I could, and yeah, it wouldn't release.
Speaker 2: So essentially your your fingers are trapped in this wood spacer,
Speaker 2: aren't they correct?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got a glove on, and at that stage there,
Speaker 6: I looked down into the glove and I could see
Speaker 6: something wasn't quite right with my little finger, and I'd
Speaker 6: convinced myself that it had dislocated. But also I knew
Speaker 6: that it may have separated from the hand, and that
Speaker 6: I only had a certain period of time to get
Speaker 6: it sort of reattached to tell.
Speaker 2: Me what you had incredible mastery over your emotions and
Speaker 2: fear to actually not just pass out.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I mean there was a bit of fear initially,
Speaker 6: but the direction that Yeah, the biggest issue I had
Speaker 6: was that when miss Boss did come down to the
Speaker 6: padding to take my smoke o order, he had a
Speaker 6: look and nearly fainted, So I had to keep him
Speaker 6: on queue, and then he panicked and didn't know how
Speaker 6: to get me out. And it was like, it's okay,
Speaker 6: if we undo these hoses here and here, we should
Speaker 6: be able to push the backing plate back and release
Speaker 6: my hand. But then I had to send him away
Speaker 6: because we're down the paddic, and I descend him away
Speaker 6: to my car and give him my car keys, and
Speaker 6: I said to him, drive the car down the paddic,
Speaker 6: and in the boot of the car is all the
Speaker 6: tools that we will need. I was an apprentice at
Speaker 6: the time, so I had all my tools on in
Speaker 6: the car, and yeah, I needed then him to walk away,
Speaker 6: not faint going up the paddic or panic get him
Speaker 6: a car. And then he turned around and come back
Speaker 6: down the paddic and went, but we're not going to
Speaker 6: get your car out. I was like, that's that's not
Speaker 6: an issue.
Speaker 4: If I had to choose between my hand and the car,
Speaker 4: I'll choose the hand.
Speaker 3: Oh it's a Sophie's choice, there isn't it. That's Good's
Speaker 3: amazing composure.
Speaker 6: Well, I suppose I was young and just didn't really
Speaker 6: sort of.
Speaker 3: No, No, that's that's real. That's poised under pressure. That's
Speaker 3: not that that's beyond your years. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: So you're obviously counseling the sort of you know, when
Speaker 2: they have these people, then the air traffic control and they've
Speaker 2: got to talk somebody down. An aeroplane is have a floataball.
Speaker 2: That's you with your arm trapped, calm in, your boss
Speaker 2: down to go and get the car. You've got the tool,
Speaker 2: so you tell the faint headed boss what to do.
Speaker 2: So does he get the right tools and what happens?
Speaker 6: Then, well, yeah, eventually I'm not sure what time it took,
Speaker 6: but it did take some time.
Speaker 3: One can almost say a little bit too much time.
Speaker 2: I've been now yelling at the boss to get his
Speaker 2: finger out of his backside and wave your fingers.
Speaker 3: It was smo Christian.
Speaker 6: He didn't even take me order that.
Speaker 3: Shocking, shocking versus scoundrel.
Speaker 6: But yeah, so now eventually, you know, I had to
Speaker 6: tell him what tools to use, and then you know,
Speaker 6: lefty Lucy, Rody Sarty and that sort of stuff, to
Speaker 6: hit the get the hydraulic fittings off, and then to
Speaker 6: grab a sledgehammer. And then he had a very small
Speaker 6: area of a backing plate to hit, and then to
Speaker 6: hit that backing plate. So at that stage he got
Speaker 6: a little concern and that he was going to hit
Speaker 6: the hand. But I was like, well, I need to
Speaker 6: get my hand out, so let's let's hit right how
Speaker 6: I was pointing where he needed to hit let's hit.
Speaker 3: Here, and did he hit the sweet spot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it took probably half a dozen hits to back
Speaker 6: it off enough to release the hand. And then I
Speaker 6: remember that at that point he wanted to take the
Speaker 6: glove off and have a look to see how bad
Speaker 6: it was, and I was sort of more like, no,
Speaker 6: we probably have to go to hospital now. And then
Speaker 6: he started to panic because he was like he didn't
Speaker 6: know where the nearest hospital was.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a five year old.
Speaker 6: Baby boss just pannied like everything. And then I remember
Speaker 6: on the way way through there, the traffic lights at
Speaker 6: Hallum had just been installed near the club, and it
Speaker 6: turned red and he stopped, and I remember looking at
Speaker 6: him and going, what are we doing? Let's like.
Speaker 3: The points.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and if the police pulled me over, or pull
Speaker 6: us over, that's a blessing. So I think they must
Speaker 6: have rung the ambulance, but the ambulance was going to
Speaker 6: be it takes too long to get to the area
Speaker 6: of the bush we were in, so we elected them
Speaker 6: to drive. And yeah, and the last thing I remember
Speaker 6: is being in hospital and taking the glove off and
Speaker 6: then having I'm not sure how many doctors and nurses
Speaker 6: there were, but there was quite a few.
Speaker 3: Attending your mate, you know.
Speaker 6: Giving him a copy. After all, he did me smoker.
Speaker 6: But yeah, and at that point there I snatched my
Speaker 6: hand back from everybody else that was looking at it,
Speaker 6: and that was the last thing I remember is seeing
Speaker 6: my fingers that were pretty much completely flat, and just
Speaker 6: the shape of the fingernail was like the Sydney Harbor
Speaker 6: Bridge on flat water. It just sort of popped up
Speaker 6: and I fainted at that point and woke up in
Speaker 6: in the hospital bed. And yeah, it started off with
Speaker 6: they wanted to take three fingers, but fortunately I only
Speaker 6: lost the tip of the little fingers.
Speaker 2: Tell you what is down to your thinking, isn't it?
Speaker 2: I reckon you save more fingers. Honestly, it's incredible what
Speaker 2: you did. So you just lost at the end of that,
Speaker 2: you just lost the tip of one finger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tip of the little finger is missing.
Speaker 2: Wow that, Jason, You're going to be this week's cooler
Speaker 2: of the week. It's quite an incredible story of poise
Speaker 2: under pressure. I mean all of you actually just hearing
Speaker 2: it all unfold, and you told it so well as well.
Speaker 2: But you are one thousand dollars cold of the week.
Speaker 2: So we're going to give you one thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: an amazing story. Jason, thanks guys, No, no, no, we
Speaker 2: love it. Literally just everyone in the studio is just
Speaker 2: leaning forward hearing your incredible story. So Jason enjoys spending
Speaker 2: your money, maybe some of it on a smokeo for you.
Speaker 2: I think you don't work for that guy anymore.
Speaker 6: Dear, no, no, no no, I didn't work for him
Speaker 6: after that.
Speaker 2: Jason, thank you so much for colling us this morning
Speaker 2: and sharing that amazing story.
Speaker 3: Good on you, mate, and enjoy spending you one thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: No worry, Thank you.
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