Re: Colorado man dies after bite from Gila monster he illegally kept as a pet
Originally Posted by Armiyana
I guess I'm just slowly getting tired of the freehanding hots with no disclaimers that people post online now and people being like, "I can't wait to get my first cobra!" In the replies.
Laughing about how puppy dog tame the animals you personally work with is one thing... But playing it off that way with new keepers too is what bothers me.
Accidents happen.
Dingo Dinkleman just had an issue where he smartly hung out by a hospital for a couple of hours with his emergency bite kit...and that was because of a freak accident with a DEAD mamba. He swung lightly it as a warning to a cow that was bumping up too close to him and it knicked a fang on his ankle. And that was a just in case he had a full reaction.
It feels like it's just getting easier to find hots in the circles now so seeing more unprepared issues like this may become more common in the news with people ready to drop bans on the critters so quickly
Exactly, all it takes is one little mistake and you could lose your life professional or not.