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2022-02-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Famed Indian snake catcher fights for his life in hospital after being bitten on the leg by a 10ft king cobra during rescue-gone-wrong in India

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Remember, they strike 1/3 of their length.

Unless they're Cottonmouths.
Then they just hurl their entire body.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-02 00:09|| 2022-02-02 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Skid, I ran over a cottonmouth last year with the wheel of my brush mower - they really can hurl their whole body... fortunately away from me... it was quite amazing.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-02-02 00:48|| 2022-02-02 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. Same with snakes. But at least (most) bears don't have poisonous fangs.

Posted by SteveS 2022-02-02 09:35|| 2022-02-02 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thing Owlbears aren't poisonous. They're the worst.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-02 11:02|| 2022-02-02 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 If I ever got bit by a venomous snake India would be great place for it! Locally we had the guy who has a venom extraction lab get bit by a king cobra during feeding time. Wife takes him to the hospital with the antivenin. Checks back with the doc and gets told he still on the ventilator. The problem was the antivenin was for Australian tiger snake so the Doc didn't give it. The thing being that this can be MORE effective than king cobra antivenin for treating bites. Of course the person who knew this was unconscious , and you still might have to explain this to a doc who hopefully was awake for the three slides about it in his ER class. At least in India you have docs who have experience treating cobra bites. Hearing he is breathing on his own means he is pretty much out of the woods. Now it is just how much tissue damage there is at the bite site.
My closest call was stepping a 3' water moccasin, fortunately for me the snake had read Gibbons et al paper on such things.

Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2022-02-02 13:25|| 2022-02-02 13:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Glenmore, .410 Snake Slayer for your cargo shorts.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-02 14:24|| 2022-02-02 14:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Got one, Skid. That old moccasin was out of sight and range in a flash. Just about airborne as he flung his loops around.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-02-02 15:12|| 2022-02-02 15:12|| Front Page Top

#8 I've met up with quite a few cottonmouths. Never stepped on one but I have startled them. They will go off where they think they are safe and turn around and watch you. And they can and will bite under water. My uncle was bit on the foot while wading in waste deep swamp in south Alabama.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-02-02 15:27|| 2022-02-02 15:27|| Front Page Top

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