Strange news about a snake bite.

[65-2x2]

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

That poor man, that giant snake has him by the hand. There is not an apparent mark on the snake, I have seen really big Rattlers, and even bigger Rattler skins, but that photo looks questionable.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Here in Lower Michigan the only real dangerous snakes we have are those at the state capital.

We have those here in NY too!!!

Rick

 

[Tom S.]

This thread is about snakes and snake bites. It is NOT about immigration, national health care, politics or anything else.

 

[CajunBass]

I grew up in rural Virginia during the 50's and snakes were pretty common, yet I don't remember ever hearing of anyone being bitten. We only had one type of snake, the dreaded Copperbackrattlemoccasin, usually referred to as a (blank) snake. I suppose some of them might have actually been dangerous, but my mother taught me to leave the snakes (and skink lizards, she was scared of the lizards) alone, and I was more scared of her than I was the snakes and lizards.

 

[Rimfire Fanatic]

I got bit by a rattlesnake once. Didn;t know it was a rattler until he struck. He had just one little kernel of rattle left on him.

He bit my hand, but I was wearing gloves, and the fangs left two little red dots on the webbing of my hand. He barely poked through my glove (bicycle gloves).

He didn't inject me as I would have got very sick and possibly would have died. This happened at a public park that was in a forested area. Gotta watch out for snakes on mountain bike trails, ust like cougars and bears.

 

[glenwolde]

A friend was in Louisiana and was struck in the ankle by a copperhead. What was odd was that he only had one puncture wound from one fang. I puzzled this out in my brain till I came up with a logical cause. I finally figured it out. This happened in the deep south where half to adult men and a third of the adult females don't have a full set of front teeth. So, it would figure that their snakes don't either. My friend in essence got bit by a redneck snake.

That's how you know the toothbrush was invented in Tennessee. Anywhere else they would have called it a teethbrush.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Never been bitten, but I've had a few close calls.

Once at our gun club I was setting up steel silhouette targets to knock them down again, when my son yelled, "Look out!" I hadn't seen it, but just as I moved my foot a diamondback struck at it. Fortunately he missed. It was a hot day, and I guess the snake was enjoying the shade under the target rail that we set the silhouettes on. Somebody was watching over me that day. I not only didn't see the snake, but I was wearing tennis shoes that day instead of my usual leather boots.