Beheaded rattlesnake still bites!

[Scott & Lai 12]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20212558?GT1=10252

Updated: 6:36 a.m. PT Aug 10, 2007

PROSSER, Wash. - Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous.

That’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.

“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.”

His wife insisted they go to the hospital, and by the time they arrived at Prosser Memorial Hospital 10 minutes later, Anderson’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 Anderson’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 he’ll likely try to kill it again, but said he’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.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I don't know...sounds like he just fumbled with the head and accidentally pricked himself.

[almaty 19]

i know a few ladies that happen to

[one...two...tree 2,762]

i know a few ladies that happen to

LOL

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

i know a few ladies that happen to

LOL

hehehe

Daniel

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[JODO 2]

i know a few ladies that happen to

LOL

hehehe

Daniel

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[Emancipation 2]

Am I the only sick person here who has taken legs of spiders and watched them wriggle around a bit after they've been severed? *sigh.. of course I was a child when i did it, but still it... principle is the same.. sometimes it takes a while for things to die.

“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.”

And what was he doing when it picked it up?? Gee look what I just killed..

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

he shoulda wacked the head a couple of times.

Daniel

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[almaty 19]

he shoulda wacked the head a couple of times.

Daniel

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well, my zuni gf Fay always did, but i came back for more

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

he shoulda wacked the head a couple of times.

Daniel

:energetic:

well, my zuni gf Fay always did, but i came back for more

more ways to skin the cat.

Daniel

:energetic:

[almaty 19]

he shoulda wacked the head a couple of times.

Daniel

:energetic:

well, my zuni gf Fay always did, but i came back for more

more ways to skin the cat.

Daniel

:energetic:

i always thought it was called skinning something else...

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

he shoulda wacked the head a couple of times.

Daniel

:energetic:

well, my zuni gf Fay always did, but i came back for more

more ways to skin the cat.

Daniel

:energetic:

i always thought it was called skinning something else...

you may be right bro. need to look up the refence sheets.

Daniel

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[Cantankerous 0]

Without explaining why, which would be many long stories, I can say that I have killed enough different poisonous snakes to agree and know for sure that they can bite you after their head has been cut off.

If you must kill a snake, and you cut off it’s head, and are stupid enough to pick up the head with your bare hands, you probably deserve to be bit…

[Aymerlu 3]

This reminds me of when I was growing up. We raised chickens and when he would chop off their heads, I don't care where I would be....the damn things would come after me!

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

This reminds me of when I was growing up. We raised chickens and when he would chop off their heads, I don't care where I would be....the damn things would come after me!

yeppers. happened once when we was preparing dinner. dayum thing ran t hrough the kitchen!

Daniel

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