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Florida teen recovering after Water moccasin bite to his face
Fox Tampa bay ^ | 4/21/15 | Staff

Posted on 04/22/2015 8:30:24 AM PDT by fungoking

Edited on 04/22/2015 8:36:10 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A Florida teenager is recovering after being bitten in the face by a water moccasin.

The bite happened last Saturday, according to investigators with Florida Fish and Wildlife, two days after Austin Hatfield, 18, captured it in his girlfriend's yard in Wimauma.


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TOPICS: Humor; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: snake; teen
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Harf behavior alert!

Interesting before and after pictures.

1 posted on 04/22/2015 8:30:24 AM PDT by fungoking
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To: fungoking
"He took it out, put it on his chest and it was acting funny, and it jumped up and got him," he said.

Future Darwin Award Winner.

2 posted on 04/22/2015 8:32:38 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: fungoking

Looks like another candidate for the 2015 Darwin awards. “Hey everbody, watch while I put a deadly water moccasin on my chest. Here, hold my beer first.”


3 posted on 04/22/2015 8:33:28 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: fungoking

Cottonmouths are notoriously aggressive little monsters. Can’t believe they got the thing in a pillow case.


4 posted on 04/22/2015 8:33:47 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: fungoking

“He took it out, put it on his chest and it was acting funny, and it jumped up and got him,” he said.

What an idiot! What made him think that this was a good idea? Too bad it didn’t bite him on the testicles and prevent him from ever reproducing.


5 posted on 04/22/2015 8:34:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: fungoking

Lots of people like that in Wimauma..


6 posted on 04/22/2015 8:34:32 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: fungoking
Good heavens!!! Do you not know your venomous snakes? And water moccasins are notoriously aggressive too. Darwin alert!
7 posted on 04/22/2015 8:35:06 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: circlecity

Sorry, but to be a candidate for the Darwin awards you have to kill yourself is some spectacularly stupid way.


8 posted on 04/22/2015 8:35:25 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: fungoking

Another tragic Gene Pool Cleaning Failure.


9 posted on 04/22/2015 8:35:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: fungoking

They forgot to mention who was holding his beer at the time....


10 posted on 04/22/2015 8:36:50 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I think his friend, last name of McCoy, put him up to it.


11 posted on 04/22/2015 8:37:41 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I was attacked by one a couple of years ago and there is no way anyone should try and pick these kind of snakes up as they do not back off.


12 posted on 04/22/2015 8:39:04 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

No, not Darwin material yet.... but definitely Idiocracy material.


13 posted on 04/22/2015 8:40:25 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: kjam22

Consider just how stupid a person has to be to do something like that.


14 posted on 04/22/2015 8:42:48 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: fungoking

um... can somebody tell me how a snake jumps?


15 posted on 04/22/2015 8:43:50 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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16 posted on 04/22/2015 8:44:05 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: The_Victor
They euthanized it??? I'd have 12 gauge shotgunned it.
17 posted on 04/22/2015 8:44:40 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: manc

These friggin’ snakes are the reason CCI invented shot capsules for handguns.


18 posted on 04/22/2015 8:44:42 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: fungoking

Hold Mah Beer” alert!


19 posted on 04/22/2015 8:45:43 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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The grown ups and parents would always tell us that they would leave our swimming area in creeks and rivers and lakes, and bayous if we beat the water with sticks and our hands, parents lied a lot back then.

When you are on the rope swing and you see them right underneath you after half an hour of dropping into the water, and playing around, you realize that nothing chases them away.

I wonder what our helmet wearing suburban helicopter parents tell their kids today, about running off the water moccasins and snapping turtles to swim in the bayous and rivers?


20 posted on 04/22/2015 8:46:51 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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