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Omg, this guy needs an honorary "Almost Darwin" Aw
Posted: November 19, 2002, 9:50 pm
by Akaran_D
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/11/19/r ... index.html
YACOLT, Washington (AP) -- A man who was showing off for friends by kissing his new rattlesnake was bitten on the lip and nearly died.
Matt George, 21, was hospitalized in critical condition after the Sunday incident. By Tuesday, his condition had been upgraded to serious.
George had caught the rattlesnake on a recent trip to Arizona. Holding the 2-foot snake behind the head, he kissed it in front of his friends.
"I said, `OK, man, you're being stupid, put it away,"' recalled Jim Roban. "He said, `It's OK, I do it all the time."'
After the second kiss, the snake bit him under his mustache. He dropped the snake on the kitchen floor, and Roban killed it with his cowboy boot.
As they waited for an ambulance to arrive at George's home, his face began to swell.
"He said, `I'm going to die,"' Roban said. "I said, `No, you're not going to die, just calm down and relax."'
Sheriff's Deputy Steven Johnson said he watched in the ambulance as George became limp and his eyes rolled back in his head. George was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Portland, Oregon.
Posted: November 19, 2002, 9:57 pm
by Diae Soulmender
LOL! I live about 8 miles from there :)
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:07 pm
by Sionistic
LOL, but for a darwin award he needs to die, so lets all pray.....
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:10 pm
by kyoukan
lol that's hilar
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:30 pm
by Truant
Ya I thought it was pretty fu
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:41 pm
by Karae
lo
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:45 pm
by Ajran
wt
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:49 pm
by Xouqoa
is hilar like ludakri?
Posted: November 19, 2002, 10:52 pm
by Ajran
quick edit out the ? before anyone se
Posted: November 19, 2002, 11:10 pm
by Pyrhus
Shit Diae, I'm glad they left our real names out of that story. Close call bro, glad you pulled through
Posted: November 20, 2002, 1:55 am
by Trek
They do have honorable mentions....
Posted: November 20, 2002, 11:15 am
by Animalor
the snake bit him under his mustache
The fact alone that he's kissing snakes has to be some sort of repressed metaphorical meaning. The fact that a 21 year old guy has a mustache probably means that he's practicing for a lucrative career in gay porn.
Posted: November 20, 2002, 11:30 am
by Fallanthas
There was another snake bite case like this down south about three years back that got an honorable Darwin.
After the goober got bitten, his brain-child roomate told him that eletrical current would neutralize the poison before it could spread.
Off they went to the brain-child's Monte Carlo, up with the hood, hook up the jumper cables and touch them to both sides of you lip while I gun the engine.
When a cop stopped to ask why the hood was up on a car with a racing engine in the parking lot of their apartment complex, he found the guy who was bitten lying in front of the car unconcious. He asked brain-child how long his friend had been lying on the ground. Brain-child answered "I don't know, I couldn't see him because the hood was up".
Apparently the idiot lived through the shock treatment, but lost part of his upper lip to contact burns.
Funny shit, and living proof that some folks just shouldn't be allowed to wander around without a babysitter.