Wow dangerous to the end.
Beheaded rattlesnake sends man to hospital
Rural Washington man thinks heÂ’s killed the reptile and is then bitten by it
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Updated: 9:36 a.m. ET Aug 10, 2007
PROSSER, Wash. - Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous.
ThatÂ’s what 53-year-old Danny Anderson learned as he was feeding his horses Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property, about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.
Anderson and his 27-year-old son, Benjamin, pinned the snake with an irrigation pipe and cut off its head with a shovel. A few more strikes to the head left it sitting under a pickup truck.
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“When I reached down to pick up the head, it raised around and did a backflip almost, and bit my finger,” Anderson said. “I had to shake my hand real hard to get it to let loose.”
Venom was spreading
His wife insisted they go to the hospital, and by the time they arrived at Prosser Memorial Hospital 10 minutes later, AndersonÂ’s tongue was swollen and the venom was spreading. He then was taken by ambulance 30 miles to a Richland hospital to get the full series of six shots he needed.
The snake head ended up in the bed of his pickup, and Anderson landed in the hospital until Wednesday afternoon.
Mike Livingston, a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist, said the area where the AndersonÂ’s live is near prime snake habitat. But he said he had never heard of anyone being bit by a decapitated snake before.
“That’s really surprising but that’s an important thing to tell people,” he said. “It may have been just a reflex on the part of the snake.”
If another rattlesnake comes along, Anderson said heÂ’ll likely try to kill it again, but said heÂ’ll grab a shovel and bury it right there.
“It still gives me the creeps to think that son-of-a-gun could do that,” he said.
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Wow dangerous to the end.
Worst part is at that point it is just a reflex. There is no venom control, it will just pump you full.
We used to have rattlesnake roundups and would skin then BBQ the rattlers.
Even when they were skinned if you poked them the head head end would turn towards you.
Scary stuff
Scary stuffYeah it is scary ya Dork Fish. LOL
Yeah it is scary ya Dork Fish. LOL
No hating in my thread Topless!
moral of the story is... you had a shovel in your hand... use it.
No hating in my thread Topless!You're no fun.
Not very smart.....I learned that when I was about 8 years old.
Me and my brothers started catching them live about then.......mom wasn't too happy when we brought 'em home.....