An ABC panel was left speechless following the supply of an exceptionally weird story by comic Kirsty Webeck, who revealed the time she had a rat stowaway in her pants.
Within the newest episode of Wil Anderson and Jan Fran’s Query Every thing, Webeck detailed the unbelievable second her early morning stroll transitioned immediately from calm to carnage.
“It was the morning time in Melbourne and I heard this high-pitched squeal and out the nook of my eye, I noticed this rat legging it in the direction of me,” Webeck defined.
“It went straight up my shoe, straight up my leg and into my shorts, like within the crotch. Like, it thought I used to be delivering a hammock to it. It was proper in there.”
Webeck revealed she didn’t deal with the sudden invasion properly.
“I used to be screaming, hopping from foot to foot, working in circles, and I shook it out of my brief … out the one leg,” she mentioned.
As soon as free, the animal dashed away instantly. Forsaking a flustered however curious Webeck.
“It ran across the nook however I used to be like, ‘I’ve gotta see what that is now’, so I’ve peeked round.
“It wasn’t really a rat, it was a child possum,” she revealed, prompting an audible “aww” from the viewers.
Host Anderson was beside himself on the shift in tone from “horror to heartwarmed”, which Webeck mentioned swiftly turned to “irritated”.
“As a result of I used to be like, if it’s not a rat and it’s a child possum, I’ve bought to take care of it. You don’t should take care of a rat, however you must take care of [a possum],” she joked.
The rollercoaster continued when she was on the cellphone to the wildlife helpline, which requested her, “is it ginger?”, which she joked felt like an inappropriate factor to ask given the animal had been in her pants.
“Seems they weren’t asking me so they may tease it, they had been asking me so they may diagnose it with thrush,” Webeck defined, revealing that she in the end confirmed their suspicions.
The prognosis nevertheless, left her questioning if she ought to get checked herself.
“I used to be like, if it’s bought thrush and it’s been in my shorts, does that imply …”
When she ultimately bought the animal to the vet, she mentioned staff wished to ensure she washed her palms after touching it.
“I used to be like, ‘my palms are the least of my worries, I carried for half a block in my pouch’,” she mentioned, sending the group right into a match of laughter.
The hosts nor the panellists had phrases to reply when she revealed that after being handled, the possum was launched not removed from her home and was “thriving”.
Fellow visitor Dilruk Jayasinha mentioned he had “so many questions” about Webeck’s story, together with what she did to lure the possum into her shorts within the first place.
“To be honest, I used to be in a ringtail possum costume,” she mentioned.
