A 41-year-old homeless man in Mobile, Alabama was treated with antivenom after he was bitten by a decapitated cottonmouth.
The man first refused medical treatment, but after he started showing symptoms of venom poisoning, he was taken to USA Medical Center, treated, and released. Link -via Arbroath
A friend of the man described the incident.
“I saw it swimming down along the creek and everything. And, I ran down and hit it with the machete and killed it and brought it up. He picked the head up and stuck himself right in the finger with it,” the man’s friend said.
The friend said the man purposefully stuck his finger in the snake’s mouth.
“He put his finger in there and all of a sudden the nerves, I guess, and it bit down on his finger.”
The man first refused medical treatment, but after he started showing symptoms of venom poisoning, he was taken to USA Medical Center, treated, and released. Link -via Arbroath
That was nice of him to kill a snake swimming in its natural habitat
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Dumb-ass award for Captain Dimbulb
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I have seen dead snakes still biting. It is a reflex action and can happen for minutes after they have died. I have heard of dogs being bit by dead snakes and I always heard stories of people being bit by dead ones but this is the first time I have seen an actual news story about it.
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Derp. Darwinism at it's finest.
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Can we stop with the sensationalist titles? A dead snake did not bite a man, the man injured himself with a dead snake.
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lol- I live in the south and that is not the dumbest thing I've ever heard of someone doing. that was pretty dumb, though. haha
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