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Friday, April 01, 2022

Stupid is as stupid does

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Police and health officials in Virginia raced to help save the life of a man in Richmond who was bitten by his own pet viper, which is listed as one of the world’s deadliest snakes.

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I generally avoid keeping pets that can kill me, although I did keep a Western Diamondback rattler along with a few of those vicious little brown Mexican scorpions in the house for a year or two back in the 1980s.
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10 comments:

  1. HMS DefiantApril 1, 2022 at 1:58 AM

    So, only a little bit crazy.

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  2. UnknownApril 1, 2022 at 2:06 AM

    Must be nuts to keep a Gaboon Viper.They have the largest fangs of all snakes.

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  3. rayvetApril 1, 2022 at 5:18 AM

    When I first got out of vet school in the 90's I had a client who fancied himself a real life Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin, before either one of them were famous. He brought me a sick, baby gator, I worked on it. He bought me a sick black water snake, mean as shit, but not poisonous, I worked on it. Comes in one day, opens tupperware container, turns it upside down on exam table and releases a pygmy rattler that wasn't eaten. I told him get that damn thing out of here and never bring a poisonous animal in here again.

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  4. Fish Out of WaterApril 1, 2022 at 7:42 AM

    Just wait until he gets the bill for saving his life.

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  5. AlanatswbellApril 1, 2022 at 7:58 AM

    What about the women you had over the years? I’ve had a few that fit the dangerous, poisonous and so on categories!

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  6. Strnj1April 1, 2022 at 8:04 AM

    ...Odds 10 to 1 it was a VCU Student.

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  7. AmazingAzApril 1, 2022 at 2:42 PM

    I have a big Diamondback living near the house, but he eats mice and pack rats.

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  8. AnonymousApril 1, 2022 at 3:56 PM

    Well, you keep that damned dog around, doncha?

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    1. wirecutterApril 1, 2022 at 5:17 PM

      Oh, come on. He hasn't bitten me in 2-3 weeks now.

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    2. B.C.April 1, 2022 at 5:31 PM

      Countdown commences to the "That Asshole Done Bit Me Again!" post...

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