Remember that Best Job in the World Contest? The winner would become caretaker of a private island in Australia for six months and collect a salary of $103,000 (AUS). The whole thing was perpetrated by the Australian Tourism Board, who hadn’t hit a publicity homerun like this contest since Crocodile Dundee. Well that great publicity was nearly turned on its head when the lucky winner of the contest suffered a nearly fatal jellyfish sting. He survived, though the tourism board might prefer that he hadn’t considering his blogging about encounters with Australia’s deadly animal population.

via Wend

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