Posted on 05/02/2018 4:09:38 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
A 57-year-old man in Oklahoma is dead after being bitten by a rattlesnake, his wife said. Barry Lester was driving in Osage County on Sunday when he saw the snake in the middle of the road and decided to stop and move it out of the way, the Tulsa World reported. But during the attempt the rattler bit him — twice. “It bit his left hand, and then he put it in his right and it bit that hand too,” Lester's wife, Roberta, told the newspaper. The couple was traveling to Keystone Lake when the incident occured. “We were just going to walk and have a day outside enjoying the lake. It was his birthday,” she said. After realizing he was bit, Barry told his wife they needed to go to the hospital. The couple rushed to meet the ambulance at their Turley home, which would then take Lester to a hospital in nearby Tulsa. But then Lester's head suddenly dropped — and "that was it," Roberta said. Emergency officials tried to revive the 57-year-old but it was too late. Barry died from a “combination of the rattlesnake bite and an existing heart condition," according to the Tulsa World. Barry had wrangled snakes before, Roberta told the Tulsa World, which is why he was confident he would be able to remove the rattler from the road. But now his wife has a warning for others: "Don’t mess with snakes. If you hear it rattling, you leave it alone.”
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Exactly correct. That while keep them calm thing. Electrocuting them can only cause their heart rate and overall stress to increase, and the venom to spread more rapidly.
Thank you. Can you imagine getting bitten, and then your “friends” come at you with a taser?
Far-left do-gooder?
“I had a basketball on the bench right behind me and I got the basketball and dribbled the snake into submission then I reached for the hoe and lopped his head off.“
I’d pay good money to see a video of that.
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You guys are killing me.
“Cotton Mouths will attack during mating season.”
Theirs or mine?
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Only if your partner is a snake.
I would never trust my life to correctly remembering a nursery rhyme. Any brightly colored red yellow and black snake I saw (which is unlikely in Colorado) would be left alone or quickly dispatched.
“Only if your partner is a snake.”
The ex was, that’s for sure.
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I have chased a rattler out of my yard with a garden hose when my gum wasn’t handy. Turns out they don’t like being sprayed with cold water....
Red touch yellow, kill a fellow.
Red touch black, good for Jack.
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Got it But would you bet your life on remembering the rhyme correctly in a very stressful situation?
I give them all a wide berth.
“Water Moccasins are ornery snakes.”
A biologist once wrote that there are only two reasons you ever see two water moccasins together: they are mating or one is eating the other.
“But would you bet your life on remembering the rhyme correctly in a very stressful situation?”
Nope. Any snake resembling one will get a wide berth or a quick bullet depending on the circumstances.
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When I was about 12, we had an old cat who had raised a bunch of kittens. One day I went into our barn to look at them and to my surprise, she had a dead rat, a stunned mouse and a dead coral snake.
She was letting the kittens play with the mouse.
I think I know that song:”Twice Bitten, Once Dead.”
All you have to remember is “red on yellow, kills a fellow”. The red will have yellow on each side.
Don’t trust no gila monsters!
My rule : run it over and then retrieve it for good eats.
Boney *** BBQ that tastes like chicken.
But why waste it?
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