Posted on 01/20/2025 1:26:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
Can anyone tell me if there is a difference between a social media star and an influencer, and, if so, what is the difference?
The Gainesville resident was searching for snakes …The snakes don’t want to be searched for. Leave them alone.
Who picks up the tab for this stupidity?
In the FL panhandle years back my dad killed an Eastern Diamondback, it was 72” without the head. We had tons of water moccasins around, but the rattle snakes were good at hiding, saw a few crossing the road but not out in the woods or fields.
My guess:
Star = has a lot of attention
Influencer = has a lot of attention AND disciples for something they offer or promote like fashion of lifestyle.
Also if not near a hospital, I hear milk thistle is a good remedy for snake bites!
anti-venom is really expensive. Why wasn’t he wearing snake proof waders?
I hate when that happens.
This is how FAFO originated
I know how big those Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes can get.
When I was in the USN back in the Seventies at Cecil Field in Northern Florida, they found one near the runway on the base, and they had a picture of it in the paper.
The guy was standing on the bed of a pickup truck, holding the snake by its neck straight out, and it was so big it was touching the ground and coiled up a bit where it touched it. The thick part of the body looked bigger than the fat end of a Louisville Slugger!
I had absolutely no idea those things could get that big!
We did a lot of stupid crap growing up in the 60’ and 70’s, but we never searched out Rattle Snakes for fun.
A slight difference. A social media star is someone who's videos you watch for education and amusement. An influencer is someone who is trying to sell you something.
His wife started a go fund me campaign, the article says.
Doctors gave him 88 vials of antivenom...
Why A Single Vial Of Antivenom Can Cost $14,000
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-single-vial-antivenom-can-cost-14000-180956564/
He must have done something less than intelligent. Best thing is to leave rattlers alone. They have a job to do.
If you have snakes around, you don’t have to worry about rodents.
That and I’m surprised he didn’t hear the snake was close by before he was bitten.
I grew up in that area of Florida, he’s lucky a helicopter got to him and rushed him back to Shands ICU, that’s 50-60 miles each way
I’ve run up on a rattlesnake in the wild and there is nothing scarier than hearing those rattles go off, you know they are really close by and are warning you to get back or you will be bitten.
He was near the Suwannee River, in a swamp.
You’d think he would wear snake boots.
It reminded me of this:
That said, they do have their weaknesses:
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