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While we have plenty of snakes in WNC the only fatal snake bite I recall was a patient brought into the ER one night when I was working. I believe it was 1985. The patient was a Christian fundamentalist snake handler. Seems he held a rattler up to his throat and...(I don't want to spoil it)... it bit him. Right dead square into the jugular vein. It went as you'd expect.

Apparently he wasn't a true believer. I kinda see it a Darwin's work. That part of the herd definitely needed thinning.

A family member of another patient asked the church goers if they brought in the snake. They had and gave it to him. He returned a few minutes later with what looked like a couple pounds of scallops in a tupperware dish. Nice looking meat.


Christian fundamentalist snake handler...........there is nothing fundamentaly Christian about those snake handlers. Billy Graham is a fundamentalist christian.

The guy in the story here deserved what he got for being stupid though.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe