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Tecumseh Resident Remains Critical After Four Snake Bites (a bad day alert)
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| 7/15/2005
Posted on 07/16/2005 4:14:52 AM PDT by Cowman
Tecumseh Resident Remains Critical After Four Snake Bites
OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) _ A Tecumseh man remains hospitalized in critical condition after being bitten four times by two different snakes.
James Cave's wife Gloria says Cave was working at a garage near his home Sunday when he felt a pain in his foot and reached down and was bitten in the hand and foot by a pygmy rattlesnake.
Gloria Cave says Cave then fell backward over a barrel and onto a copperhead that bit him in the foot and groin.
Cave's son and a neighbor drove him to a nearby hospital where he received antivenin and then was flown to an Oklahoma City hospital where he remains.
Neil Garrison with the Martin Park Nature Center in Oklahoma City says it's unusual for someone to run into two poisonous snakes at once. And he says snakes usually don't strike unless provoked, stepped on or humans just get too close.
Garrison says one tip is to never put your hands or feet into areas where you can't see.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: ow; snakebite
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Garrison says one tip is to never put your hands or feet into areas where you can't see. Ya Think!?
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:14:52 AM PDT
by
Cowman
To: Cowman
They probably slithered into the garage for warmth. That being said, its unusual for snakes of two different species to nest in such close proximity in the same building!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:17:06 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
its unusual for snakes of two different species to nest in such close proximity in the same building! I thought that too. Unless this was some kind of snake crossroads motel or something
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:19:44 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(Just when you hit the bottom of the stupid hole you notice the guy next to you is digging)
To: goldstategop
My husband was a real "snake enthusiast" when younger (he had three pet snakes when we got married, LOL.)
He was also bitten by snakes, in the wild, pygmy rattler included.
He said he can't imagine this scenario either unless the guy had captured the snakes.
I guess anything's possible, just not probable.
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:29:14 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: Cowman
Ouch! This is even worse than my friends daughter who was bite on the ankle by a copperhead when she accidentally stepped on it while raking their front yard. She didn't realize what had happen and when she jumped she stepped on it again and the snake bite her on the other ankle. It was pretty bad and she was sick and in pain for a very long time from the bites ~ but this poor guy sounds like he got it worse.
It hard to imagine encounter two different kinds of venomous snakes in one small area...and it's even harder to imagine that that area would be in your own garage!
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:34:24 AM PDT
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: dawn53
"He said he can't imagine this scenario either unless the guy had captured the snakes.
Tecumseh, OK.--You could feed your family off the copperheads and rattlers there.
Have some lakefront property I'm will to sell there LOL!
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:35:20 AM PDT
by
Ff--150
(Being Enriched in Everything, to All Bountifulness)
To: Cowman
"Cave was working at a garage near his home..." Also known as the Snake Bite Inn
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:36:40 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Cowman
Sounds like working at a university for three years all compressed into a few seconds.
Get well soon guy!
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posted on
07/16/2005 4:45:08 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Stop being a victim, resist social engineering.)
To: Cowman
That's it! I'll never have sex again.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:01:38 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
To: Cowman
The first thing I would do when I got home was burn down the garage.
To: silverleaf
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:16:38 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: Ff--150
On one of those
TV News Magazines..recently, they highlighted a town in Oklahoma who made the most of their natural resources.
For instance, in a little town here in Florida we have an annual festival to acknowledge, and enjoy the fruits of our river....clams, froglegs, etc.
In this Oklahoma town, their only resource is rattlesnakes.
They make an annual festival from this....from playing with them to eating them.
And folks bring in rattlesnakes from miles around.
To each his own, I guess.'
To: Cowman
Rattlesnake bites are FAR worse than copperhead bites. We just got the new vaccination for our dogs that protects against rattlesnake bites. (In case anyone out there doesnt know this is available...)
To: Cowman
A rattler and copperhead in the same area? Unusual in my experience. James definitely had a bad day.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:34:35 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: goldstategop
...its unusual for snakes of two different species to nest in such close proximity in the same building!
In the Congress and Senate, you see it, everyday.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:37:04 AM PDT
by
punster
To: dawn53
I had a friend who lived on a ranch in Oklahoma long ago. They had a large snake pit in which they collected rattlers for the annual Rattle Snake Roundup every year.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:37:40 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Cowman
"...it's unusual for someone to run into two poisonous snakes at once"
Oh I don't know about that, I've seen Fat Teddy Kennedy and Hiliarly FatAnkles in the same room at the same time.
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posted on
07/16/2005 5:44:32 AM PDT
by
Mad Mammoth
(Psssst!! Joe Wilson = Valerie Plame's Pimp Daddy. Pass it on.)
To: Mad Mammoth
To: R. Scott
A rattler and copperhead in the same area? Unusual in my experience.
perhaps the victim had a "friend" who left him a "surprise" in the garage..??
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:37:49 AM PDT
by
ConsentofGoverned
(A sucker is born every minute..what are the voters?)
To: glock rocks
I sure hope this doesn't cause you to have those nightmares again...
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:44:45 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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