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AZ man played with a rattlesnake, got bit in the face
12News (KPNX) A TEGNA Company ^ | September 16, 2017 | Nico Santos

Posted on 09/17/2017 9:42:56 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper

Victor Pratt has been in the hospital since Sept. 1 after a rattle snake bit him in the face. Two weeks later, and the wound is still difficult to look at. "It makes your brain smash," Pratt said, trying to describe what the pain felt like. He was able to keep his cool enough to pry the snake's jaw off him and get to a hospital in Coolidge, where the incident happened.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: stupidity; wierd
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To: Towed_Jumper

I remember years ago, either on John Gunther’s HIGH ROAD or Lowell Thomas’ HIGH ADVENTURE show, about women in some temple in India who dance and hypnotize cobras, then kiss them on the head.

Also saw on THAT’S INCREDIBLE years ago some guy in the USA hypnotize and kiss a rattlesnake.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


21 posted on 09/17/2017 11:19:35 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Towed_Jumper

There ain’t no cure for stupid.


22 posted on 09/17/2017 11:42:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Towed_Jumper

The doctors are like: “Oh crap, Victor AGAIN...”


23 posted on 09/17/2017 11:47:30 AM PDT by SIDENET (My next tagline will be so awesome.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

and yet, despite all of the great things that occur in Arizona every day, Arizonans keep reelecting John McCain and God lets him live past his spoil date.


24 posted on 09/17/2017 11:50:40 AM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"John Gunther’s HIGH ROAD or Lowell Thomas’s HIGH ADVENTURE show … women in some temple in India who dance and hypnotize cobras, then kiss them on the head."

From Wikipedia's list of unusual deaths, here's a 2016 version of what you described:

2016: Irma Bule, 29, an Indonesian Dangdut singer known for performing with live snakes, died in the middle of a concert after being bitten by a king cobra and refusing treatment

25 posted on 09/17/2017 11:57:57 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: tet68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSP_ZDV3htk

Wendy Bagwell “Here Comes the Rattlesnakes”.


26 posted on 09/17/2017 12:21:56 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Reily

Trifecta...


27 posted on 09/17/2017 12:32:26 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Snickering Hound

“...tastes like chicken...”


28 posted on 09/17/2017 12:34:09 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Towed_Jumper

Coolidge AZ= “Deliverance” without the river.

Seriously.


29 posted on 09/17/2017 12:41:15 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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30 posted on 09/17/2017 1:37:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (If all you have is a Hammer and Sickle, everything looks like a fascist.)
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To: Snickering Hound

He is somewhere between being in prison and not having a job that pays taxes.


31 posted on 09/17/2017 1:39:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (If all you have is a Hammer and Sickle, everything looks like a fascist.)
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To: rlmorel

Saved!


32 posted on 09/17/2017 1:41:40 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Towed_Jumper

On the bright side, after a few more bites he’ll be immune and his blood can be used for antivenin.


33 posted on 09/17/2017 3:42:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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