Posted on 08/28/2015 2:26:49 PM PDT by PROCON
A Lake Elsinore man could lose his hand after being bitten by a rattlesnake he was holding and taking pictures with, he and his mother said Thursday.
Alex Gomez found the 4-foot-long snake in a field behind his home on Monday and decided to pick it up.
The 36-year-old could be seen holding the snake and even wrapping it around his neck in photographs provided to KTLA by his mother.
At some point after the photos were taken, the rattlesnake attacked Gomez, biting him in the hand.
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People have always been stupid, but it wasn’t possible to publish every stupid incident in the country before. These days stupid sells—look at our politicians.
I remember back in the early '60s when all of us kids heard that a local boy had captured a rattlesnake and gotten bitten by it. We all thought he was an idiot, and when I finally ran into him many years later, he admitted that it was a very stupid thing that he did.
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