Don't try this

[ScottS]

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_091807_news_snake_bite.e71569c8.html

[jrock210]

I read the title and just exited out of it I will not even read something that stupid without laughing harder than I am right now.

[ScottS]

I read the title and just exited out of it I will not even read something that stupid without laughing harder than I am right now.

Here is the article

Ore. man puts snake in his mouth, nearly dies

10:48 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 19, 2007

By TERESA BELL-BLACKMAN and SCOTT BURTON, KGW Staff

A Portland man nearly died after putting a pet rattlesnake into his mouth to show off for friends.



Watch KGW report Matt Wilkenson admitted that he made a poor decision, but he’d been drinking and messing around with friends and apparently lost some common sense.


“It's actually kind of my own stupid fault,” he told KGW.


Wilkenson said he’s always felt comfortable with his pet snakes and he thinks they could sense that.


“Their tails would be rattling you reach your hand in the cage and they're more scared of you than you are of them and they wouldn't strike,” he explained.


So when he was showing off his reptile relations with friends, he thought it would be fun to put the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake into his mouth and make them laugh.

Blog: He put the snake WHERE?

However this test of fate was not laughable at all.


The rattlesnake latched onto the back of his throat and sent venom surging into his body.


“Me being me, I put his head in my mouth,” Wilkenson recalled. “At first it felt like someone just gave me a shot in the mouth."


And within seconds, his tongue began to swell up, fill his mouth and cut off his airway.


"When your arm falls asleep and it's like a painful fall asleep, it's like that, but 10 times stronger and it was just my whole body,” he told KGW.


Wilkenson was dying and the pressure forced blood out of his nose. Doctors later told him the snake had shot enough venom in his body to kill as many as 15 people.


He was losing his life as he arrived at Oregon Health and Science University but quick-thinking doctors inserted a breathing tube in his throat and injected anti-venom into his body.


Wilkenson was also put into a medical-induced coma for three days, to give his body time to recover.


Miraculously, it all worked and three weeks later, he’s doing well. The hole in his throat is healing properly and doctors said he’s on the path to a full recovery.


Wilkenson said he’s still a snake guy, but he learned his lesson.


“I still love snakes, but I'll take a little more care in handling them,” he said.


As for the pet rattlesnake, it no longer lives at Wilkenson’s house. But he does still have a young bull snake as a pet that is not venomous.

[LPMOM]

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_091807_news_snake_bite.e71569c8.html

:D:eek::D

[GRP05]

“It's actually kind of my own stupid fault,” he told KGW.



...kind of...?

[red91087]

wow i just saw it and that was totally crazy and stupid. umm hello your not different from any other human being. your not an animal whisperer.

[cougardude]

Here is the article

Ore. man puts snake in his mouth, nearly dies

10:48 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 19, 2007

By TERESA BELL-BLACKMAN and SCOTT BURTON, KGW Staff

A Portland man nearly died after putting a pet rattlesnake into his mouth to show off for friends.



Watch KGW report Matt Wilkenson admitted that he made a poor decision, but he’d been drinking and messing around with friends and apparently lost some common sense.


“It's actually kind of my own stupid fault,” he told KGW.


Wilkenson said he’s always felt comfortable with his pet snakes and he thinks they could sense that.


“Their tails would be rattling you reach your hand in the cage and they're more scared of you than you are of them and they wouldn't strike,” he explained.


So when he was showing off his reptile relations with friends, he thought it would be fun to put the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake into his mouth and make them laugh.

Blog: He put the snake WHERE?

However this test of fate was not laughable at all.


The rattlesnake latched onto the back of his throat and sent venom surging into his body.


“Me being me, I put his head in my mouth,” Wilkenson recalled. “At first it felt like someone just gave me a shot in the mouth."


And within seconds, his tongue began to swell up, fill his mouth and cut off his airway.


"When your arm falls asleep and it's like a painful fall asleep, it's like that, but 10 times stronger and it was just my whole body,” he told KGW.


Wilkenson was dying and the pressure forced blood out of his nose. Doctors later told him the snake had shot enough venom in his body to kill as many as 15 people.


He was losing his life as he arrived at Oregon Health and Science University but quick-thinking doctors inserted a breathing tube in his throat and injected anti-venom into his body.


Wilkenson was also put into a medical-induced coma for three days, to give his body time to recover.


Miraculously, it all worked and three weeks later, he’s doing well. The hole in his throat is healing properly and doctors said he’s on the path to a full recovery.


Wilkenson said he’s still a snake guy, but he learned his lesson.


“I still love snakes, but I'll take a little more care in handling them,” he said.


As for the pet rattlesnake, it no longer lives at Wilkenson’s house. But he does still have a young bull snake as a pet that is not venomous.


So why did you post the link to the story and then make the thread even longer by posting the actual article? I think the admins have asked us not to post complete articles like that for the sake of saving bandwidth on the site.

[LUFPAN]

Dang....bubba almost won a Darwin Award. He should at least get an honorable mention.

[slorch]

Sounds like the cure we've been looking for in hopes of curing obnoxious and stupid ESPN / sports announcers.

I blame the doctors for interfering with nature's Darwinian process here. The dude was so stupid, that nature was trying to kill him, but doctors intervened. pity.

[slorch]

Dang....bubba almost won a Darwin Award. He should at least get an honorable mention.

BTW, i posted mine after just looking at the link. You had a great idea.;):D

[slorch]

So why did you post the link to the story and then make the thread even longer by posting the actual article? I think the admins have asked us not to post complete articles like that for the sake of saving bandwidth on the site.

it's no longer than some of Lonny's posts.:D

[LPMOM]

So why did you post the link to the story and then make the thread even longer by posting the actual article? I think the admins have asked us not to post complete articles like that for the sake of saving bandwidth on the site.

brown nosing the board gurus won't get you any extra points.

[stevefoxsc]

now its common sense that you have to CHARGE YA LAZER WHEN HANDELIN DEM SNAKES!

http://shoopdawhoop.org/img/ShoopDaSnake.png

[slorch]

I think Fran needs to see if he can do it...:D

(I'm sure Aggieland would beon the edge of their seats fo that one. The funny part would be who was wishing for the guy to live, or not.)