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October 7, 2025 11 mins

It's all over the headlines! An Australian man was bitten twice by a shark and then drove himself to the hospital. We need to hear more of your stories like this! Have you driven yourself to the hospital or maybe it was a Country Tough Aussie uncle email us: christian@christianoconnell.com.au

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
This headline says it all. This will be going around
the world.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Man bitten twice by shark drives himself to the hospital
with serious leg injury. Only in Australia. You people are
built differently. There's no way in England that's something. Well,
not too many sharks around them as well. The water's
too cold, but that is you know. We used to
do a feature we do an occasional feature I love
called Country Tough. One of the things I've learned here

(00:52):
is there's the city people and then there's.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
The folk that live out an hour or two.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You only got to go an hour outside of any
of the cities in Australia and country people are built differently.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
They're just tougher.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
We've had stories before of people driving themselves to hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
David told us about his old.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Man, my mother's uncle, Tom was picking a post hole
with his tractor and he slipped in and the cuddy's
leg off drove his tractor back home. Got in the
car and drove himself hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Now he may have exaggerate a bit about cutting his
leg off because obviously femeral archeries bleedout that, but still
a leg has been severed, and you know driving is
a two legged sports. So this guy has been bitten
by a shark twice drives himself to hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's an incredible story.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Man his fifties bitten twice on the lay By Show
whilst surfing at d Estre's Bay, Kangaroo Island, in the
area known locally as the Sewer.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Good place, that's the place to go, isn't he get
in there?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Does?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
This happened around lunchtime need Estree's Bay, at a popular
surf spot known as the.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Sewer on Kangaroo Island.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
The reason why I drove himself to the hospital is
is sixty k away.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
What's a long sto. Actually he needs used to get
himself there.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
He's had surgery and it's non live threat, so he's okay.
But I guess he just had to choice whether if
you've got to wait anyway, Yes, yeah you might as well.
Now rio you've got some detail about what actually happened.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Incredible, So a bronze whaler was actually chasing a seal
around the bay, and then the seal, very sneaky seal
used the surfer as a decoy. So he saw the
surfer and went, it looks a bit like me, sort
of ducks behind him, and then the sharks started chomping
at the guard.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I was just googling when Rion told me this during
that song. I just googled, start to type out seal
facts and the one comes down auto complete. I got
as far as seals and it went have complicated love.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Lives, Oh messy drama.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, the man has multiple partners. Swim on to land
and lie there with that sort of beautiful sort of
than the male seal has, you know, and wait for
the ladies to arrive and then he can have He
doesn't even eat. I think he's got a lot of
sort of food in him, right, Barry White, aren't they

(03:20):
you know?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
He just sort of they mate.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I remember this from a David aptinbro David Aptmberbrokra, and
it was just like he all.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
I remember David Aptra saying as well.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
As seals have complicated love lives with multiple partners. Whenever
you used to watch that you Mum and dad always
look at each other as steamy. Now, all right, So
I wonder if there are other people listen to this
who have stories. It might be you, It might be
mum or dad, or a crazy auntie or uncle of
someone driving themselves to hospital. We are all here today

(03:54):
for those stories of people.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Australians.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
When I say people, let me be crystal clear here
Australia only people in the world that would do this
because you build differently driving yourself.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
To hospital Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I think this is something totally unique to you, Australian DNA.
Just incredible stories that I've heard. Sometimes you're driving yourself
to hospital. Kylie, good morning, Welcome to the show. Hello, Hello, Hi.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Hi there. My dad drove himself to hospital. He sliced
his leg open on our farm from the ankle to
the knee and it was the accelerated foot.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
So what was he have you? How did he use
the accelerator?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
He?

Speaker 5 (04:44):
I think he just got into the mode that he
was going to die if he didn't drive himself, and
he just he just it was regularly it's about a
fifteen twenty minute drive and he reckons that he did
in about ten and you can actually.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Take his foot off the accelerator. He lost feeling in
it with all the blood leaknows did you see ankle
to knees.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Jane, you had emergencies surgery and about I think there
was like fifty or sixty stitches internal external.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Actually is lucky to be alive.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, the car look like a war zone like it
was blood it was. Yeah, he's he's got nine lives.
He's had a million other things happened to him as well.
He's just incredible, he's so brave and yeah, it was.
He just dragged himself to the door of the hospital,
which they he knocked on the door and they asked
him if if he was bleeding.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
That was a minute. Also in this country, you have
to knock on the hospital door.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
What do you Yeah, country country doors, the country hospital
doors are often locked. And yeah, that's what they asked
him if he was bleeding. Yes, just a little, just
a little, I think he said.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I guessing that if it's a no, they don't bother
to let you in. It's it's so it's bleeders only overnight.
Go and die on the on the front porch.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Come back when you're bleeding.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
What a man your dad is an incredible stories is
he saved his own life?

Speaker 5 (06:08):
He did? He did, he's yeah, he's done veryus other
things as well. Been hit by a car, He's knocked
himself out by cutting a tree down. Yeah, he's he's
got nine lives. He's incredible.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I started counting those and just to check how many
he's got.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Man, he stopped exepting the guard already.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
We've just in the last two minutes we've ticked off
three of them. Kylie, thank you so much for sharing
a story about your dad.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
My pleasure and enjoyed this. Sorry, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I remember when I was in Tasmania a couple of
years ago, in the middle of nowhere when I want
this mountain biking trip and I was like, what the
hell is that there? He goes, Oh, well, that's the
that's the hospital and it's a shack.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I said it shut. She goes, yeah, yeah, there's a problem.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
You called a number and he just check how serious
it is and then he drive from where he lives.
He was out in the middle of the some farm
and will open it up depending on I guess you
have to yeah, it's not a twenty four to seven situation. Yeah, Alex,
you must have a story about someone in the family
doing someone Like.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
I've got countless stories, and this one involves my uncle,
uncle Brian. If you're listening, Hello. So he was out
mustering sheep on his horse. He came off the horse,
he hid his the front of his he's junk basically
on the front of the saddle. On his way down,
shatters his pelvis. He's pelvis was in pieces, and he

(07:27):
has dragged himself to his truck like a kilometer away
he's I think he said, he tied like a jump
around himself to try and keep it all together, as
in the pelvis, not the junk, but drive himself to
hospital and like it.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Was awful, it was so so bad. Didn't pass out
from the pain. I know someone shouts at the helvis
pelvis and passed out from the payers agonizing.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yeah, anyway, he went to hospital, and like I went
and saw him about a week or two later, and he.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Thought it would be a good idea to show me
down there. So he just takes his sheet. You're not
going to believe. You're not going to believe it, and
like it was like the uncle Helvis, and I was like,
I don't want to say it, but I was like,
oh my god, it's so bad. Oh god, it was
terrible stitched up and you know, black and blue and awful.

(08:22):
So yeah, thanks uncle brother uncles.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
We're your phone in one day about weird uncles, all right,
So I look for your stories for driving yourself to hospital.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
MJ. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Gooday, Christian, thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Very much for calling the show, MJ. What's your story
for us? Then?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, I didn't actually drive myself to hospital. I drove
myself home. I was I was working on a farm
out in gifts Land, and I was up on the
truck and I didn't realize that I backed into the
de fence the electric things. Anyway, I brushed past the
stainless tank and it gave me a jolt, fell off
the truck and I ripped my ear off. Anyway, I was,

(09:01):
I was nearly wet, my ear was stu up up
on the truck and grabbed my ear.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
And and wrapped.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Wrapped a rag around my head. And I'll go home.
I've just married a nurse. She'll patch me up.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
What are they anyway?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Like like you know bit. Two and a half hours
later I arrived home, and what do you.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Mean to what happened in the in the two and
half hours? What were you doing?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I was driving a long.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Where's the year on the passenger seat?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
No, no, I sort of put it round about in
the right spot and wrapped around my head. Anyway. I
took one look at it and gave me a good
telling off.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And the next thing, isn't you good here? Because this
one snackered. It's just a hole into my head. So
what happens? You going to have plastic surgery? They managed
to reattach it.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, I had placed a surgery and he he did a.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Pretty good it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's it's a little a little bit higher than the
other one.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
But he couldn't lie.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Even when they fit our glasses, they level them up
after a line, because your forehead this shonky surgeon.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
One. Now I go to the barber's and I've got
sick burns, and the Barbara always sort of looks at
it and.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Go when it is in my chair, your head, this
damn floors won't Oh my word, m J, what a story.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, MJ, thank you so much for sharing your story.
Have a good and please keep these stories coming. They
are insane, absolutely insane. It's also drawing on with the
farming straight it's the most dangerous place to farm in
the world. How do you even get any assurance? And well,

(11:09):
it's not in Australia, is it. We have a whole separate.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Speaking of reattaching, my grandfather cut half his finger off.
This is back in the nineteen forties and he actually
taped it back together and sort of like it kind
of stayed there, but it was like all wonky, like
just speaking of that guy reattaching his finger was such
a weird finger because he and then it's somehow sort
of attached and healed, but wonky.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, it was. It was it's hard to describe.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Maybe tomorrow we do wonky body parts. Yes, yes, wonky Thursday.
Have you got any more stories? I really can't.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
I can't get enough of them. They're incredible stories because there's.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
No mild story, none that involves driving yourself to the hospital.
There's no mid I stub my toe and then drove
myself to the hospital.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
We're not going to hear that. The Christian O'Connell Show
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