- I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about
to enter the strike zone with the fire ant.
You guys ready?
Your shot good?
- [Camerman] Yup.
- One, two, three.
Holy cow.
Ow, ow!
Holy cow that's a lot of stings already!
Okay, I'm gonna have take my hands out
pretty quickly guys.
- [Cameraman] You can do it man!
- [Coyote] So much worse than the harvester ants.
- [Cameraman] You got it, 30 seconds!
- I can't, I can't, I gotta stop, I gotta stop!
(buzzer)
- [Cameraman] You alright?
Tell me what you're feeling.
- A lot of pain, ah!
They're still on me!
(intense drumbeat)
Nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
oh hey, what's up?
26, 27, 28, 29.
- [Cameraman] Too many to count?
- It's too many to count.
I'm about 30 just on my hand here, I'm guessing
I probably took somewhere in the vicinity of
100 to 150 ant stings can you see that?
- [Cameraman] Yeah your skin is like all tight.
- My skin is tight, swollen, and it itches
and burns right now.
Okay, so if you are ever out in the wild,
let's say you're out there for a picnic,
put your picnic blanket right down
on a mound of fire ants, worse thing that
could possibly happen,
and you don't have a first aid kit with you,
there's a little simple remedy that you can use.
It's kind of gross, but it's also kind of interesting.
You can actually pee on fire ant stings,
to neutralize the sting.
- [Cameraman] Wait what?
- Yeah, you can actually pee.
The ammonia in the pee will actually the neutralize
the stings and neutralize some of the swelling.
- [Cameraman] Okay, hold on, wait, we can't...
I mean how are we gonna have shots of this?
- Well, I'm not gonna just pee on my hands for you guys
right here, I actually brought with me,
an entire bottle of Coyote pee.
- [Cameraman] No you did not.
- Yes I did.
- [Cameraman] That is colored water guys.
- That is not colored water, you wanna smell it?
- [Cameraman] Mario!
I need you to smell this.
- [Cameraman] He says he's got a bottle of pee
and I don't believe him.
- No I'm not gonna make Mario smell it,
I'll smell it though.
Yup that's my pee, 100%.
- [Cameraman] See now I really don't believe you.
- Just smell it, you guys can smell it at home.
- [Cameraman] Ugh!
- Yeah, gross right?
I know, totally gross.
It is a bottle of Coyote pee, but believe it or not,
the ammonia that is in your pee will actually help
to reduce the swelling and neutralize the venom.
So what I'm gonna do right now,
as gross as it seems,
is I'm going to dump my own urine
all over my arms and on my hands, to try to reduce
the swelling and the burning from these fire ant stings.
You ready?
- [Cameraman] Not really.
- Here we go...
- [Cameraman] Hold on, I'm gonna back up a couple steps.
- I'm not gonna splash you, come on!
Alright you ready?
- [Cameraman] Yeah, go for it.
- [Coyote] Oh yeah that's pee.
And I left this bottle of pee sitting in the sun all day,
and I know this seems incredibly gross, right,
and it is, it's super gross,
I am literally rubbing pee into my hands,
and into my arms.
But this is going to help keep down the swelling from all
of the stings.
- [Cameraman] Do not pull my leg, that wasn't just a bottle
of colored water?
- Nope, that is pee, that is pee 100%.
That is pee.
That is pee 100%.
And I left this bottle of pee sitting in the sun all day.
Look at that, my hands have actually totally cooled down,
and I think that the urine,
it's brought out the bumps in a little more definition,
but I think that the swelling is actually going down
at this point.
And it's only been a couple of seconds.
I can tell you this much, my arms are not
burning at the moment.
They still itch, but I definitely feel like the urine
is doing the trick.
That's pretty cool.
- [Cameraman] That's pretty gross.
- It is, I agree, that was completely gross.
Probably one of the grossest things you guys have
ever seen me do, but hopefully this serves as
a great example of what to do if you
ever find yourself in this worst case scenario.
I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave!
Stay wild!
We'll see you next week.
Now while the urine did act as a temporary relief
to my anguish, unfortunately it did not completely
stop the effects of the ant venom.
In total we counted over 300 stings,
and within 12 hours of the fire ant swarm,
my hands have swollen to nearly double in size,
and were covered in unsightly white postulates.
Moral of the story,
do whatever you can to avoid fire ants.
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