Karma is a....

[elevatethis]

http://www.kirotv.com/news/13858249/detail.html

PROSSER, Wash. -- Apparently, even a dead snake can bite. A man said he was bitten by the decapitated head of a rattlesnake on his property near Prosser, Wash. Danny Anderson and his son saw the 5-foot rattler Monday evening while feeding horses.They pinned it with a pipe and cut off its head with a shovel. When Anderson reached down to pick it up, he said, the snake head twisted around and bit his index finger. In the 10 minutes it took to reach Prosser Memorial Hospital, the venom spread through his body and his tongue had already started to swell.He was treated with shots at the hospital. A state Fish and Wildlife Department biologist said it's possible the snake had the heat-sensing ability to make one last attack -- or it may have been a reflex.

I wonder what would have happened if they would have just left it alone...hmmm.....

[juddb]

Man good for him some peoples kids

[West Coast Jungle]

Revenge is a dish best served COLD!

Question 1- Why chop off it's head?

Question 2- Why pick up a freshly cut off head? With your hand, duh

Question 3 - Why don't people respect nature?

Rattlesnakes are much more afraid of you then you are of them :eek: , just avoid them or scare them off, no harm no foul.

Never under estimate the power of stupidity! It is a very powerful force!

[lillyorchid]

Good for that snake!

People who don't know about snakes should just leave them ALL alone. At least that is what I was taught growing up and spending my summers on a horse farm. If I saw a snake (and I saw a lot of them) I was told to "leave it be and walk away from it".

[SarahMB]

Well this probably won't be a popular opinion, but on our farm we always carried guns with us when checking the pastures and doing feed drops, just for rattlers. Horses, cattle and sheep were our main forms of income, and they don't know to stay away from snakes. I love and respect all snakes, even rattlers, but you can't really let them stay in your pastures with your livestock, it's foolish.

But yeah, chopping off and then picking up a head like that is also a bit foolish.

[West Coast Jungle]

Most rattlesnake bites are from being stepped on or startled so I can see the concern if you are a rancher.

Sarah, love the quote by the way.

[SarahMB]

Thanks, Raul

[Kaaa]

"What is the last thing a Redneck says before they die?"

"Here hold my beer, and watch this!"

Thats what i thought of after reading that, i think he was trying to impress his son! While i was growing up in IL, on a farm, with ACRES of land we had Corn, and Soybeans, we would walk the feilds in groups and pull weeds out of the Soy feilds. It sucked but everyone in the family did it. Every once and a while we would come across a Rattlesnack or a Cottonmouth and we never shot them, or at them. we simplely walked around them and picked the spot later.

[Shadowspider]

Well this probably won't be a popular opinion, but on our farm we always carried guns with us when checking the pastures and doing feed drops, just for rattlers. Horses, cattle and sheep were our main forms of income, and they don't know to stay away from snakes. I love and respect all snakes, even rattlers, but you can't really let them stay in your pastures with your livestock, it's foolish.

But yeah, chopping off and then picking up a head like that is also a bit foolish.

I don't think that's so "unpopular" of a statement, just a true, accurate one.
I... sort of.... grew up on farms and ranches. My grandfather was a farmer and raised cattle as well. In addition, my family also lived on the property of a farmer/rancher so live stock and cattle... and snakes were an everyday occurance. My grandpa and landlords carried guns as well as snake hooks and a good ole' burlap sack (they didn't have snake bags back then) and if it wasn't feesable or realistic to relocate the snake, by God they shot it.

We too were raised to just "leave the snakes alone!" The only snakes we played with were the garters and corn snakes. If it didn't fit either of those profiles, we steered clear of them. But then again, we were taught from a very early age what snake was what and that you don't just go grabbing them, dead, decapated or not.

I can (kind of) understand why "city folk" would not know a corn snake from an ear of corn but it never ceases to amaze me how so many "country folk" seem to be completely ignorant of snakes as well. Now who knows if this guy was city or country and really it doesn't matter.... common sense is common sense and, apparently something that society as a whole is no longer teaching in schools.

I guess, in some ways, we have TV and movies to thank for the ignorance run amuk and irrational fears and phobias that so many people have.

[anthrpicdecadnce]

wow. makes me almost wish he didn't survive.. no i take it back, it's a shame he did survive. Could have just moved the thing. why did he find a need to kill it? I'll tell you why. because he's a pathetic human and has the universal human feeling of superiority, despite the fact that humans are inferior to every other animal in every way. scumbags like that make me sick.