Snake Bite - Kiss Of Death #124
Granted it's rare to get bit by a rattlesnake but when it does happen it's a real problem. If you're to older, very young, weak immunity it's likely you will die from a bite of a rattlesnake. These kinds of people and parents of, should have an anti snake bite kit with them if they want to get some exercise on trails, lakes, and mountains but rattle snakes like all creatures of nature shouldn't be messed with, if you see one go the other way ASAP.
I remember as a kid playing with snakes thinking how cool it was but if I had known the dangers involved I wouldn't have tried to pick one up with my hands (Yes I did that and I was lucky). Most people don't know the difference from a rattler and a garden snake like me when I was younger and just thought it was just a snake, not really harmful but a simple garden snake...yep
I walk around the lake all the time and took this shot when I saw the sign, it struck me kind of odd because I didn't think about the dangers of poisonous snakes until then. Now I'm thinking about how I would handle the problem if I should be bit by one. I have a cell phone on me 90% if I couldn't call out I would try and snap a shot of my bite. I would roll up my pants to show where I got bit in case I couldn't speak for my self. That's at least a few things I would do now that I wouldn't of thought to do before.
| Paula Halfacre, 39, female September 20, 2015 Green mojave rattlesnake Halfacre was with several friends near her camp in the Azusa Canyon Mountains, Azusa, California. She returned to her campsite alone to retrieve a tool when she was bitten by a rattlesnake. She attempted to hike back down to her friends, but collapsed on the path. She managed to get close enough that someone heard her faint call for help. A friend of Halfacre's picked her up and carried her down to where her other friends could help her. Unable to speak, Halfacre was not able to let anyone know she had been bitten. An ambulance was called and as paramedics were loading her into the ambulance, she was finally able to get out the words "snake bite". Halfacre was taken to nearby Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora, California, where she died a short time later. Source |
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Reading stuff like that makes you think twice before just stomping around like I was blindly taking pictures. I step in some areas that I know for sure snakes like to rest and get sun mostly rocks and places of warmth. That being said I will always stomp around for that great shot but I'm getting a snake bite kit lol, live dangerously but be smart.
I learned! Crazy story. It actually had assistant that gave me the bag with the Boomslang in it But i didn't know it was a snake that could inflict a lethal dose of venom.
Iv'e always learn that younger snakes are more dangerous because they don't know when to stop releasing poison, no I don't know how true that is but it does scare me a little bit more.
Oh man - that's a sad story. Good advice about having a snake bite kit on hand. I grew up in Kwazulu (South Africa) - we have the black mamba and green mamba there, the former being a very aggressive type. In later years in Cape Town I encountered more than a welcome share of Cape Cobras - sometimes a nest o fthem would be hidden in someone's garden. Scary stuff.
Gesh, talk about "Time to get your shitting pants on" Step in a nest of Cobras would be a very bad day!
In cape town we'd say, 'those things don't play'. Especially the babies like someone else said here already. Plus you'd have the protective parents to contend with. We have large yards there and in new neighborhoods there's usually a lot of undeveloped field. They give you some warning by standing upright but God help you if you stumbled on them accidentally
I already know I'm going to sleep tonight and dream about snakes. lol oh boy