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Severed rattlesnake head bites man who decapitated it

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/severed-rattlesnake-head-bites-man-who-decapitated-it/

According to KIII-TV in South Texas, Jennifer Sutcliffe and her husband were out doing yard work near Corpus Christi when they spotted a four-foot rattlesnake on their property. As any hot-blooded Texan would, her husband promptly grabbed a shovel and beheaded the snake. However, when he then bent down to dispose of the reptile, it retaliated -- or rather, its severed head did.

It turns out snakes can still attack even an hour after they've been beheaded. Since their metabolisms are much slower than those of humans, their internal organs can stay alive for longer. And naturally, they become aggressive in the throes of death, when they perceive the situation as a last-ditch opportunity to survive.
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I can understand the snake's POV.
 
Reminds me of this.........


 
No offence, but damn, that guy is dumb. If you don't know that snake heads are dangerous...you probably should have be trying to deal with the problem yourself in the first place.
 
What a fool.

When you kill a snake for no reason other than you're being afraid of it, that's the karma that "bites" you.
 
KevinKohler said:
No offence, but damn, that guy is dumb. If you don't know that snake heads are dangerous...you probably should have be trying to deal with the problem yourself in the first place.
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Oh IDK that it's that common of knowledge.
 
The best thing is the snake posed no danger to them until they decided to kill it. Leave snakes alone.
 
KevinKohler said:
No offence, but damn, that guy is dumb. If you don't know that snake heads are dangerous...you probably should have be trying to deal with the problem yourself in the first place.
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I thought the same thing. The guy lives in south Texas and he didn't know that snake heads will bite you? Well, he knows it now.
 
Yep...they'll do that...
 
spud_meister said:
The best thing is the snake posed no danger to them until they decided to kill it. Leave snakes alone.
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I generally agree. But if the snake is hanging around my property, AND I have small children or pets, I am probably going to kill the snake if it is venomous. Unless I have a safe way to catch it alive right then and there for relocation.
 
I was bit many years ago. I ran across a snake that I did not recognize, so I picked it up for a closer look. Turned out to be a Massasauga rattlesnake, with no rattles. At the time I believed timbers to be the only poisonous snake in the area.
Long story short, serum sickness sucks...
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I generally agree. But if the snake is hanging around my property, AND I have small children or pets, I am probably going to kill the snake if it is venomous. Unless I have a safe way to catch it alive right then and there for relocation.
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I'd move it. Catch it in big trash can, call animal control so they can release it in proper area.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I generally agree. But if the snake is hanging around my property, AND I have small children or pets, I am probably going to kill the snake if it is venomous. Unless I have a safe way to catch it alive right then and there for relocation.
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Or you could remove suitable habitat around where the kids and pets hang out, discouraging snakes from being there rather than just killing a snake each time it moves into that place. Killing snakes achieves nothing except providing a reprieve for the local rodent population.
 
spud_meister said:
Or you could remove suitable habitat around where the kids and pets hang out, discouraging snakes from being there rather than just killing a snake each time it moves into that place. Killing snakes achieves nothing except providing a reprieve for the local rodent population.
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Proactive measures are almost always best, I agree.
 
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