Strange news about a snake bite.

[LVSteve]

Maybe if he quit wasting his money on playing golf he could afford to get health insurance.

I was tempted to say "nice burn". However, then I remembered how much my health insurance cost when I had no employer's health insurance. I can assure you that a round or two of golf every week (not that I play) would have worked out way cheaper than any health insurance I could get pre-Obamacare.

 

[comnozm&p]

I'm not particularly afraid of snakes but this one gives me shivers!
Diamondback. Texas mid 70's.

Wow, and I thought the one I shot in my back yard a couple years ago was big.
They say a rattler will strike at a bullet. It's either that or I'm a better shot than I thought.
I bagged it and put it in the dumpster. After a couple days in the sun I had to move the dumpster far away. The trash service guy thought I must have put a couple bodies in there....

 

[Bald1]

Good grief. This and the above comment leaves open a debate about the health care system.

Well the funny part is, if he had insurance it would have only cost insurance company $12,000 they never pay full rate.

 

[TLflag]

We had a young Lady hit 3 times by a Rattler, three hits and three scratches. Caught the snake, One fang was missing, In Arizona, bites are common, with alcohol being the main cause.

 

[Greyman50]

Maybe if he quit wasting his money on playing golf he could afford to get health insurance.

Or better yet learn how to shoot and at least carry a 22 if around snakes.

 

[Doriangray6]

Good grief. This and the above comment leaves open a debate about the health care system.

What health care system?

 

[2500]

We had a young Lady hit 3 times by a Rattler, three hits and three scratches. Caught the snake, One fang was missing, In Arizona, bites are common, with alcohol being the main cause.

Always hated drunk snakes.

 

[65-2x2]

I didn't 'like' your post because I 'liked' it.

I will tell you a good story that goes with several days on morphine. I had a nurse that I really wanted to get a sponge bath from until I sobered up and thought, "Man what were you thinking?" She was big, fat and ugly?

I did see how people could become addicted to the stuff, it feels good. The only problem is it will lock your bowels up like Ft. Knox!

 

[old bear]

Nothing like the morning after effect, been there done that.

 

[gila_dog]

Here's one I almost stepped on near the back door of my house. A snake shot round from the old .22 rifle ended the threat.



Here's one I nearly stepped on out in the boondocks. I went may way and he went his.

 

[cherrypointmarine]

Years ago Jerry Mucilek and his wife were at my club to shoot a match . She saw a snake and reached down and got bit , pygmy rattler . She was rushed to the hospital and they kept a surgeon there all night in case they had to take her arm .

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

I'm not particularly afraid of snakes but this one gives me shivers!
Diamondback. Texas mid 70's.

That would make a beautiful holster and belt combo

 

[lihpster]

Luckily, there is only one venomous snake species in Oregon. The Western Rattlesnake, like most rattlesnakes, isn't aggressive to humans. Rarely found in town, most Oregonians have never seen one. Also, like most rattlesnakes, if you respect its personal space, odds of you being bitten are near zero. If you mess with it, well, a snake's gotta do what a snake's gotta do. Leave them alone and they're usually pretty easy to avoid. Fatal encounters usually involve an automobile, much to the snake's detriment.

 

[john17427]

Late year my cousin reached into his pool skimmer and got hit by a copperhead. Many vials of antivenom later along with three days in hospital he was able to keep all of his fingers and hand. It was touch and go for a while I understand.

A few years before that I was opening my dad's barn to get the lawnmower out and right at the threshold inside the door was the biggest cottonmouth I've ever run across. Opening the door suddenly really pissed it off and I appreciate it following true form and snapping into a coil so fast you can't miss hearing it. With my legs well out of the way I reached inside the door for the shovel leaning against the door frame. I'm guessing it was about four and half feet. If you take a foot off that to account for the adrenaline, that's still a big cottonmouth. I've seen a lot of them in my life and this one was the biggest (and maddest) I've crossed paths with.

 

[Phenix]

So the moral of the story is if you're going to get bit by a snake, get bit in Mexico.

In Mexico poisonous snakes are the least of your worries . . .

 

[TX-Dennis]

Unfortunately, in Texas we have 15 species of venomous snakes; rattlesnakes (9 species), coral snakes (2 species, I think), cottonmouths, and copperheads (3 species). None are aggressive to humans, but they will strike if they feel threatened.

 

[rwsmith]

While we certainly have the most expensive health care in the world, our positive results are not near the top. It is about greed.

Everthing is for profit. Even human lives.

 

[rwsmith]

We had a young Lady hit 3 times by a Rattler, three hits and three scratches. Caught the snake, One fang was missing, In Arizona, bites are common, with alcohol being the main cause.

So the snake had been drinking?

 

[rwsmith]

I'm starting to wonder about this story, he might have been bitten by a snake, but did he die of something else? Maybe a heart attack brought on by the snakebite. If he had health problems before the snake encounter, that might have done him in.

 

[lihpster]

Whatever happened, with about 6-7K bites per year and about 5 or 6 deaths per year in the U.S., fatal snakebites are extremely rare.