Posted on 04/01/2017 2:44:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
More people die from bee stings than to venomous snakes in North America.
Never messed with one, avoid snakes like liberals. Have read that Coral snakes are very passive, and young kids often pick them up because they are so pretty. Do not get bit, either.
Quoted from my late uncle Frank it’s like “two hot pokers o far ‘s jammed into ma ankle”.
My wife got bitten by one several years ago on the heel. It was an adult snake so the bite was mostly dry. Young ones tend to inject everything they have. It looked like a bad mesquite thorns wounds with minimal swelling.
She spent about 18 hrs in the ICU and the bill was $40K with little actual treatment. Of course there was several doctors that came by and said “ I’ve never seen a snake bite before.
I wish I could get paid that sort of money to take someone’s pulse and gawk at their predicament.
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