Welcome to Australia, if the house prices don’t kill you, then the animals will:

To give our foreign readers some idea of how insanely dangerous that was, out of the several thousand deadly species of fauna in Australia, ranging from the standard red kangaroo to Nick Kyrgios, the Eastern Brown Snake is the second-most venomous species of snake in the known world, only beaten by the Inland Taipan, with the Brown Snake causing more deaths from snakebite than other species, with its venom is known to cause, among many things:

Nausea, vomiting, hypotension, coagulopathy, hemorrhaging, cardiovascular collapse, and cardiac arrest.

But hey, it’s Queensland, even the crocodiles can kill you, just ask Bob Katter.

Luckily, a million and one news outlets picked it up and gave the story life, such as the BBC:

“I really love animals, especially exotic ones,” Thiem said afterwards.

“But they said it was a really poisonous snake and it was close to the ball kids, so it was a really dangerous situation.

“It’s something that has never happened to me and is something I’ll definitely never forget.”

Dominic Thiem

Winning a US Open, the second-most memorable event of Dominic Thiem’s career.