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View Poll Results: How did your closest call or bite happen?
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Cage or container too small for the snake
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11 |
15.94% |
Wrong tool for the job
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10 |
14.49% |
Took a careless shortcut
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24 |
34.78% |
Distracted, was doing more than one thing
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23 |
33.33% |
Bad mental/emotional condition
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8 |
11.59% |
Drugs or alcohol (any kind of medicine)
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12 |
17.39% |
Showing off for an audience
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14 |
20.29% |
Freehandling
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12 |
17.39% |
Freak accident, not preventable
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14 |
20.29% |
11-13-2007, 05:33 PM
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#31
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Complacency is the biggest enemy. I get like that every so often.
Took a careless shortcut and was granted a 7 day ICU stay.
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11-22-2007, 10:11 PM
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#32
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How about inexperience at catching/handling? Being 16 at the time field hunting in S Cal, I came across a C.v. helleri laying at rest. Awe stuck at my find I pinned it's head down with my hook, reached down with my right hand and picked it up behind the head. Little did I know the strenght and flexability of these snakes as it turned it's head and opened it's mouth getting it's fangs with in reach of my thumb. Droped it , jumped back and started shaking at my too close of a bad incounter. Inexperience can be a fatal move, one of the things that scares me when I see newbies asking about owning hots!
Scott
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11-23-2007, 02:25 PM
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#33
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i agree totally.
although im not very old and have not been keeping hots as long as a lot of people on here, i get naseous sometimes when i think of some of the things that i used to do when i was younger and more stupid.
i should have been bit numerous times.
its been pure luck that i havent.
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11-23-2007, 02:28 PM
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#34
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i always thought that 99% of the time youll never get bit unless you do something stupid...or step on one in the field.
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01-21-2008, 09:08 AM
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#35
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I think that alcohol and / or other drugs being involved in many bites too..
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05-08-2008, 07:07 PM
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#36
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Quote:
Originally Posted by snakegetters
My guess is that a lot of snake bites are probably proceeded by words to the effect of, "Hey, y'all watch this" or "I bet I could do that." Most common victim profile in North America is a young male in his early 20's, intoxicated.
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Ha! The three most dangerous words in aviation: "Check this out!"
(No hots for me right now) BUT, the only times I have been bitten I was doing something I already knew I shouldn't and trying to save time by bending the rules.
I'm keeping emeralds now (the ones with the really big teeth) and my hook is my best friend.
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05-09-2008, 12:54 AM
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#37
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Complacency (laziness) and allowing yourself to get distracted are reasons I would think folks would get bit.
I came close one time to taking a hit. It was a spazztic neonate southern copperhead of all things. Needless to say when I finally got his head pinned, we had a talk.
Almost forgot to add...my crotalus atrox the other week thought he was a spitting cobra. Good thing I was already wearing safety glasses. I had 2 drops of venom. 1 on my cheek and one on my chin.
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