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  • danielgage
    wow
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  • dreher
    I am not scared of snakes but I'm leery.   I'm not going to watch that video.  I don't have nightmares.  I don't want nightmares.  No reason to tempt fate.
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  • redneckandy
    My Dad got bit on the hand by a Timber Rattlesnake. Instead of using the shotgun in his truck to dispatch it he grabbed a short piece of metal to pin it down and chop its head off. He got to ride in a Life Flight helicopter for that dumb move.
    His whole arm swelled up to three times the normal size.
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  • allen griggs
    The rattlesnake is more poisonous than the copperhead.  And this was a little copperhead.  Still, this young gal got an ass whipping from a nip from this snake.  Freak accident.
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  • Ditch-Runner
     glad she is doing good and a freak thing to catch on film 
     I  have heard if a poisonous snake gets you a copperhead would be the one you want to bite you . it  is the least likely to kill or cause major injury ..  however I do not want to test that on my self  I will just go with not getting bit is the best 
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  • He Dog
    Saw the article by no link to a video.  If you are gonna get bitten by a venomous snake in the US, a copperhead is the top choice.
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  • chiefr
    He Dog said:
    Saw the article by no link to a video.  If you are gonna get bitten by a venomous snake in the US, a copperhead is the top choice.
    Eastern Garter Snake would be my preference.  B)
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  • mohawk600
    and i like.....didn't....see it and i like didn't feel it......and like.....like.....i just don't know.......like.....what was going on.....like....until we got to the hospital and i like looked at my phone......because, like......you know....like my telephone is everything.....like it records.....like my whole life. 

    Including like.......getting bit by a like.......copperhead.......o my gaaahhhd. can you like believe it?
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  • chiefr
    As a side note, I know more than one person who had been bitten by Southern Copperheads when walking barefoot at night.
    One had no idea what it was until he went back out with a flashlight.  All survived.
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  • allen griggs
    The video still works for me.

    "and i like.....didn't....see it and i like didn't feel it......and like.....like.....i just don't know.......like.....what was going on.....like....until we got to the hospital and i like looked at my phone......because, like......you know....like my telephone is everything.....like it records.....like my whole life. 

    Including like.......getting bit by a like.......copperhead.......o my gaaahhhd. can you like believe it?"

    That is so well put, Mohawk.  These young people experience life only through the Iphone.  If it didn't happen on the Iphone then it didn't happen.     
    ps I hate Iphones.    Look at ads on tv 9 out of 10 ads feature Iphones.  Whether they are selling pizza or Subarus, almost all the ads feature Iphones.  If it didn't happen on the Iphone it didn't happen at all.
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  • allen griggs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqGfr4tiMeE

    He Dog here is the video on youtube.
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  • Mobuck
    I'm not really what I'd call "afraid" of snakes. I'm cautious until I determine the species but have caught a few cottonmouths for "show and tell".  Son lives in an area known for rattlers and copperheads and Grandson is totally and unreasonably disturbed at the sight of ANY snake. This is the wrong attitude since as far as I'm concerned, one is more likely to injure themselves trying to get away from a non-venomous snake than to be bitten by a venomous snake.
    I think the kids have several videos of me handling 4-5' non-venomous snakes but I'm not messing with venomous snakes much anymore(I'm getting old and slow) and have no qualms about just whacking a questionable species with a shovel.
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  • He Dog
    chiefr said:
    He Dog said:
    Saw the article by no link to a video.  If you are gonna get bitten by a venomous snake in the US, a copperhead is the top choice.
    Eastern Garter Snake would be my preference.  B)

    Smart Arse!  Yeah, you are right, though there are other ophistoglyphs even smaller that would be better choices yet.  But among the pit vipers and corals, copperhead is the best choice.  Except maybe the Arizona coral snake.  Their gape is so small I don't think a bite on a human has ever been recorded.  Still, I never just grabbed one in capturing it...  
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  • He Dog
    Thanks Allen, got that one.
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  • SCOUT5
    The video still works for me.

    "and i like.....didn't....see it and i like didn't feel it......and like.....like.....i just don't know.......like.....what was going on.....like....until we got to the hospital and i like looked at my phone......because, like......you know....like my telephone is everything.....like it records.....like my whole life. 

    Including like.......getting bit by a like.......copperhead.......o my gaaahhhd. can you like believe it?"

    That is so well put, Mohawk.  These young people experience life only through the Iphone.  If it didn't happen on the Iphone then it didn't happen.     
    ps I hate Iphones.    Look at ads on tv 9 out of 10 ads feature Iphones.  Whether they are selling pizza or Subarus, almost all the ads feature Iphones.  If it didn't happen on the Iphone it didn't happen at all.
    I don't care for all the smart phone use myself.  But I'm going to withhold opinion on this girl.  She has probably filming her tumbling so she could review it and she what she could improve.  Filming was used for this way before I-phones came along.   Stuck at home practicing what she enjoys, it only makes sense she would want to see if she is doing it correctly.   She knew she was filing when she took her shoes off, so of course take a look.  
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  • roswellnative
    snake emerges from warm nap, sees a white foot that looks like a rabbit. bites.  What I find amazing is it was able to inject and she not even know it.  sharp teeth.  and the babys are more dangerous they say, i sure dont want to find out
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  • allen griggs
    I have heard that the babies have more toxic venom.
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  • allen griggs
    I have heard that the babies have more toxic venom.
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  • savage170
    I was bite by one when I was 12 putting up hay he went thru the baler I was stacking bales on the wagon and didn't see him until it was too late.I spent a couple days in the hospital still have the scars on my left arm. Snake are not one of my favorite animals
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  • He Dog
    I have heard that the babies have more toxic venom.

    I don't know where that myth came from.  Drop for drop the venom of juveniles is about the same as that of adults, given normal variation.  Juveniles have smaller venom sacs so the bite has less venom.  This is true of every species I know of that has been tested.
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  • mohawk600
    He Dog said:
    I have heard that the babies have more toxic venom.

    I don't know where that myth came from.  Drop for drop the venom of juveniles is about the same as that of adults, given normal variation.  Juveniles have smaller venom sacs so the bite has less venom.  This is true of every species I know of that has been tested.
    I think that babies envenomate more because they don't have control over how much they inject.
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  • sxsnuf
    https://youtu.be/xvaEJzoaYZk
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  • Brookwood
    Snakes have been getting BAD press since ADAM!    
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  • He Dog
    mohawk600 said:
    He Dog said:
    I have heard that the babies have more toxic venom.

    I don't know where that myth came from.  Drop for drop the venom of juveniles is about the same as that of adults, given normal variation.  Juveniles have smaller venom sacs so the bite has less venom.  This is true of every species I know of that has been tested.
    I think that babies envenomate more because they don't have control over how much they inject.

    Actually the evidence is that they have complete control from birth.  Generally speaking snakes use more venom to subdue prey than in defensive bites.  The sooner the prey drops, the less chance of losing it.   Defensively all they need to do is make you hurt enough, like the girl in the video, that you lose interest in them.  On good days it works like that.  Some days you wake up on the wrong side of the rock and are just in a really foul mood, so look out boy scout.  I had a good friend at the University of Colorado, that was the designer of the most elegant experiments to elucidate behavior I ever ran into.  In one series of simple experiments he demonstrated the behavioral sequence rattle snakes follow in securing prey.  Among other things, when they bite an animal, they get it's scent so they can trail that particular animal despite it crossing the trails of other animals of its species, to where it is incapacitated.   

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  • allen griggs

    Say "hello" to my little friend.
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  • He Dog
    Hello little friend. B)
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