Stormtrooper armour is hopeless against lightsabers - but it is good protection against the venomous snakes of north Queensland.

Scott Loxley, who is walking around Australia dressed as an "elite soldier of the Galactic Empire" from sci-fi franchise Star Wars to raise money for charity, says the iconic armour protected him from a king brown snake bite this week.

The 47-year-old set out from Melbourne on the 15,000km journey in 2013 in an attempt to raise $100,000 for the Monash Children's Hospital.

He reached Queensland last month, following the long journey across Victoria and South Australia, up the Western Australian coast and through the Top End.

Mr Loxley had just left Yalboroo, north of Mackay, on Wednesday when he came across what he thought was another dead snake on the road.

But that snake turned out to be a king brown, he said, and it was alive and well.

Mr Loxley, a former Army soldier, used his official Facebook page on Wednesday to share the story of his encounter with the "vicious" snake.

"He's lunged at me and bit me but the good news is the armour, he bit me in the shin, the armour actually protected me and stopped the bite," Mr Loxley said.


Thankfully, the force of the bite was not enough to penetrate the armour.

"I could feel the teeth on the plastic scraping but the armour actually stopped something," he said.

"So all those people who rag on the old stormtroopers, 'you know, the armour doesn't do this, it doesn't do that' … it stopped the snake bite and probably saved my life today."

According to Australian Museum, king browns, or mulga snake, bite savagely and may hang on and chew as they inject their vemon, which is highly toxic and can be expressed in enormous quantities.

Mr Loxley said it was the first time a snake had bitten him on his journey, although he usually catches taipans and western browns to eat.

To date, Mr Loxley has raised close to $40,000 for the hospital.

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Aqua?

We hear of the dented helmet, but not the scraped greave.

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That is crazy.

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"Enormous quantities" ? What the fuck? How about 1.7999x10**12 furlongs per fortnight, that's an enormous quantity.

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Here's wishing Mr. Loxley success, wearing whatever apparel suits his fancy.

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No GG, that's an enormous distance.

4.37644x10**27 kg, now that's an enormous quantity.

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I think I'd prefer a car (with air conditioning) between towns.

I do hope he completes the journey successfully and collects more than he planned on. A good cause like that deserves good results.

OK, technically, it's an enormous rate.

It's still as meaningless a measurement of the lethality of king brown snake venom as is "...enormous quantities".

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Hey GG, I just saw this in my paper, "Hydrographers, for those who were wondering, are more skilled than ordinary surveyors , because they don’t have the advantage of being able to drive pegs into the ground to hold it still while they measure it.’’


On the other matter, "can be expressed in enormous quantities." actually refers the ability to bring forth, as a mother expresses milk for her child. As alien as this may seem to a reptile, it's the way of the mammalian world.

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