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[vulcanman]

Man Nearly Dies After Putting Pet Rattlesnake Down Throat

A man in Oregon nearly died after a pet rattlesnake that he put in his mouth while drinking with some friends bit him inside his throat.

http://www.local6.com/news/14139408/detail.html

 

[James Bond]

"Doctors stuck a breathing tube down his throat, injected several rounds of anti-venin and then put him in a medical coma for three days."

Anti-venin? I thought it was anti-venom??

"I still love snakes but I will take a little more care in handling them," Wilkinson said. "It is kind of my own stupid fault."

Kinda? Yeah. I guess you could say that.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

No, it is in fact antivenin.

It's amazing how some venomous snake owners are so careless - if memory serves one of the first domestic flights after 9/11 was a medivac airlift for a guy in Milwaukee who was bitten twice by his pet cobra while drunk.

 

[SludgeFactory]

The majority of rattlesnake bite victims are drunk, yet another idiot to add to the statistics.

 

[vulcanman]

Wonder why he would have a venomous snake around the house.