One-Eyed Fat Man said:

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The women in Zambia typically use a stick to kill mambas, spitting cobras and puff adders.

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I dont think he has one of those Zambian women available though...

Not in Atlanta. By the way, our house worker, Charity, says if you spit at a spitting cobra first, it won't spit back at you. Others have confirmed this but I haven't seen it myself.

That's one of those things, which might be true...but I wouldnt want to be the one to test.

With my luck, this would be me...

AZAG08 said:

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Shoot it and then go running out to the front of the house franticly looking around for where that loud noise came from and asking neighbors if they heard it too

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I have done this. It works

Fightin TX Aggie said:

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ER doctors have amazing stories.

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I had a guy come in with a rattlesnake in a briefcase once that was still alive and another transferred in from an outside hospital for a coral snake bite. He had brought the coral snake in a bucket to the outside hospital (also still alive) but they just had him take pictures to bring to us in transfer.

The coral snake guy was drunk and picked the snake up in a creekbed because the thought it was pretty. It bit him and he dropped it and then he thought well I better take it with me so he picked it up again and it bit him another time.

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The coral snake guy was drunk and picked the snake up in a creekbed because the thought it was pretty. It bit him and he dropped it and then he thought well I better take it with me so he picked it up again and it bit him another time.

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I mean....in his defense, they are pretty, and you can never have too many poisonous snakes with you in the ER.

Badace52 said:

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Fightin TX Aggie said:

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ER doctors have amazing stories.

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I had a guy come in with a rattlesnake in a briefcase once that was still alive and another transferred in from an outside hospital for a coral snake bite. He had brought the coral snake in a bucket to the outside hospital (also still alive) but they just had him take pictures to bring to us in transfer.

The coral snake guy was drunk and picked the snake up in a creekbed because the thought it was pretty. It bit him and he dropped it and then he thought well I better take it with me so he picked it up again and it bit him another time.

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I had to kill one in the trauma bay one night. Medstar brings in a snake bite and the EMS guys are like, "Ya, we think it was a copperhead. They killed it and we brought it with us."

They dump the snake out of a burlap bag onto
the floor of the trauma bay. It comes out of the bag, hits the ground, wakes up and it starts hissing and trying to strike people in the bay.

One of the cops was there and pulled out her baton and I was like, "This is a bucket list moment for me working in the ER. You mind?". So she gave me her baton and I took care of it in the trauma bay. I didn't have time to consult the OR Snake thread but it ended up being a copperhead.

Wife was working on a Masters at a small local college, in combined math and science. It involved a biology field trip to the Big Bend area to trap rattlesnakes.

This included going out late at night, and walking the highway looking for rattlers, catching them, and putting them live into a bag in the back of the van.

The biology prof thought it was a great idea to kill the van, and leave the headlights on. This lead to a dead battery and an 11 mile hike in the dark, on that same blacktop full of snakes.

Once back to school and the science lab, they put the rattlers (live) in boiling water, preparatory to skinning them. One snake was apparently not sufficiently boiled, and started moving on the table, after being taken out of his spa treatment. This was in the vicinity of a 9-year-old girl, because it was apparently "take your daughter to the biolab full of venomous snakes day".

Wife yelled "it's still alive" while simultaneously swinging the snake stick down hard on the snake, then putting him back in the water.

Biology prof was upset that she ruined a perfectly good snake skin. Wife did not care, to put it mildly.