Man Bitten and Hospitalized By Decapitated Rattlesnake Head
Terry Trippany on Aug 13 2007 at 11:31 pm | Filed under: Linkfest, News of the Weird
This is one for the books. I knew that snakes could still writhe around after having their heads chopped off but I didn’t realize that the heads could inflict a venomous bite up to 60 minutes after being decapitated.
PROSSER, Wash. – Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous.
That’s what 53-year-old Danny Anderson learned as he was feeding his horses Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property, about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.
Anderson and his 27-year-old son, Benjamin, pinned the snake with an irrigation pipe and cut off its head with a shovel. A few more strikes to the head left it sitting under a pickup truck.
“When I reached down to pick up the head, it raised around and did a backflip almost, and bit my finger,” Anderson said. “I had to shake my hand real hard to get it to let loose.”
Venom was spreading
His wife insisted they go to the hospital, and by the time they arrived at Prosser Memorial Hospital 10 minutes later, Anderson’s tongue was swollen and the venom was spreading. He then was taken by ambulance 30 miles to a Richland hospital to get the full series of six shots he needed.
The snake head ended up in the bed of his pickup, and Anderson landed in the hospital until Wednesday afternoon. (src AP via MSNBC)
According to Scientific American snake heads are dangerous from 20 to 60 minutes after being removed from the body. It seems that snakes would make perfect politicians.
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