Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[SouthAussie]

Paywalled

DBM - Bigditch said that this link didn't work for them either.

 

[Raina_the_observer]

Let me elaborate the above, what I meant was a FATAL snake bite. An adult may be able to survive a snake bite, but Gus is a small child, a bite could have been lethal.

In a child of that age, a brown snake bite would almost CERTAINLY be fatal. Unless immediate attention, which given the remoteness, would not happen.

 

[Bigditch]

I think The Nightly is not paywalled here. (Not sure where you live.)

Can you read this? It is the exact same MSM article, republished.

(Hopefully this link is allowed, I will report my post so that the mods can look.)

Why Police Took the Rare Step of Naming a ‘Suspect’ Before Charges in Gus Lamont’s Disappearance — A Move That Deepened the Mystery and Sparked Nationwide Debate About What Investigators Already Know - Top News Update

After months of silence, SAPOL declared Gus’ disappearance a major crime and narrowed its suspect to someone known to him. Experts explain the strategy, the

litaupdate.com

Thank you, but, no. The 2nd link was worse it took me to some random spam crap.

 

[SouthAussie]

In a child of that age, a brown snake bite would almost CERTAINLY be fatal. Unless immediate attention, which given the remoteness, would not happen.

I read that death can occur within 30 minutes.

Though I do think that Gus would have been taught what to do if he saw a snake (or redback spider). By 3 or 4 years old a child would have been taught what to do about potential outback dangers. And taught not just once, but likely many times, reinforced - that kind of teaching would be usual. imo


In contrast, an untreated eastern brown snake bite can kill in under half an hour.
"It's arguably the quickest killing venom in the world. No other snake in the world has killed people so quickly, so regularly," Dr Fry said.

You've just been bitten by a snake — what do you do?

You have just been bitten by a small snake. You are pretty certain it is just a harmless python, but it disappeared before you could get a proper look. Do you administer first aid and go to the hospital or keep gardening?

www.abc.net.au

(Eastern brown snakes are also known as common brown snakes. They are found in South Australia. Link )

 

[SouthAussie]

Thank you, but, no. The 2nd link was worse it took me to some random spam crap.

I think I will delete my post with that link then. The link worked fine for me, but I don't want to introduce spam for others here.

 

[drsleuth]

I think I will delete my post with that link then. The link worked fine for me, but I don't want to introduce spam here.

Works for me too ( the original link )

 

[Bigditch]

I think I will delete my post with that link then. The link worked fine for me, but I don't want to introduce spam for others here.

Don't worry about it, likely a problem at my end. It happens.

 

[BreakingNews]

IIRC, a few missing people have ultimately been found in septic tanks.

Right now trying to dig up and dig through the various reports and confirm details, one point I haven't been able to establish yet is if the searchers actually used K9 units/sniffer dogs in those early searches. It's not mentioned in any of the SAPOL releases I've looked at so far, but also some of the earlier ones seem to have been taken down. Also possible that they're just part of the various search, rescue, and LE units that are mentioned by name, but the only dogs I've seen so far are the family's, running around in pictures of JM.

That said, if they were there, agree, IMO it's odd enough that they weren't able to trace him to suggest some possibilities.

In the case of missing William Tyrrell, the dogs could not follow him off the property. He may have been taken off the property in a vehicle. Makes me think Gus might have been taken off the property in a vehicle.

BTW. With Gus's fair skin, I doubt he would have spent much time outdoors. Moo.

 

[BreakingNews]

I read that death can occur within 30 minutes.

Though I do think that Gus would have been taught what to do if he saw a snake (or redback spider). By 3 or 4 years old a child would have been taught what to do about potential outback dangers. And taught not just once, but likely many times, reinforced - that kind of teaching would be usual. imo


In contrast, an untreated eastern brown snake bite can kill in under half an hour.
"It's arguably the quickest killing venom in the world. No other snake in the world has killed people so quickly, so regularly," Dr Fry said.

You've just been bitten by a snake — what do you do?

You have just been bitten by a small snake. You are pretty certain it is just a harmless python, but it disappeared before you could get a proper look. Do you administer first aid and go to the hospital or keep gardening?

www.abc.net.au

(Eastern brown snakes are also known as common brown snakes. They are found in South Australia. Link )

Absolutely kids are taught about snake safety at a very young age. I lived on 'Snake Hwy' as Mum used to call it. Snakes of all types in our Valley. You follow your parents advice from toddler age upwards.

 

[drsleuth]

I read that death can occur within 30 minutes.

Though I do think that Gus would have been taught what to do if he saw a snake (or redback spider). By 3 or 4 years old a child would have been taught what to do about potential outback dangers. And taught not just once, but likely many times - that kind of teaching would be usual. imo


In contrast, an untreated eastern brown snake bite can kill in under half an hour.
"It's arguably the quickest killing venom in the world. No other snake in the world has killed people so quickly, so regularly," Dr Fry said.

You've just been bitten by a snake — what do you do?

You have just been bitten by a small snake. You are pretty certain it is just a harmless python, but it disappeared before you could get a proper look. Do you administer first aid and go to the hospital or keep gardening?

www.abc.net.au

(Eastern brown snakes are also known as common brown snakes. They are found in South Australia. Link )

In my experience, the majority of people bitten by snakes are not actually envenomated & infact are what are called "dry bites " ( still treated as an emergency until proven otherwise )

Death from snake envenomation in Australia is quite rare, I think around 2-3 deaths / year
IMO