Meet 19 year old Sam Ballard,

This is a photo of him after he ate a slug as a drunken dare. He used to be a fit and healthy rugby player, now he is a quadriplegic.

The slug contained rat lung worm. It led to him going into a coma for over 400 days, he now has seizures and can’t control his body temperature along with needing to be tube fed. His life -and the life of his family, cruelly and irrevocably changed by a split second decision.

So I’d have to say slug from outside no, in a restaurant…. maybe? If the slug had been cooked perhaps there would have been a different outcome.

Teenager explains why friend ate slug that left him paralysed