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Sting in the tail of world's best job

Ben Southall
Ben Southall: stung. Photograph: Getty Images

The winner of the best job in the world has found that the dream posting to a tropical island paradise had a sting in the tail. Ben Southall, 34, was stung by a deadly Irukandji jellyfish just days before his six-month tenure came to an end. Southall's sting was not life-threatening, but he had ignored advice to wear a body suit as protection, the Daily Telegraph reports. "I have avoid being boxed by a kangaroo, nibbled by a shark and bitten by a spider or a snake, then in my final few day son Hamilton Island I fell foul of a minuscle little creature known as an Irukandji," Southall said on his blog.

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