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Title: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: TechMan on July 30, 2015, 06:53:22 AM: http://local12.com/m/news/features/top-stories/stories/-quot-Rattlesnake-selfie-quot-results-in-a-153K-medical-bill-177079.shtml (http://local12.com/m/news/features/top-stories/stories/-quot-Rattlesnake-selfie-quot-results-in-a-153K-medical-bill-177079.shtml)
Uses up antivenom supply from 2 hospitals and gets a $153,000 bill. He is still alive.
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: Devonai on July 30, 2015, 07:04:06 AM: Anti-venom is expensive because it's hard to milk those tiny little nipples.
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: vaskidmark on July 30, 2015, 07:07:24 AM: Damn you, Darwin! Your law is supposed to be inviolable.

stay safe.
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: TechMan on July 30, 2015, 08:31:41 AM: Quote from: vaskidmark on July 30, 2015, 07:07:24 AM
Damn you, Darwin! Your law is supposed to be inviolable.

stay safe.

That is what I thought, am am deeply disappointed with the way lawyers (no offense to our barristers) and medical science has somewhat muted Darwin's law. /sarcasm (somewhat)
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: TechMan on July 30, 2015, 08:37:56 AM: Quote from: Devonai on July 30, 2015, 07:04:06 AM
Anti-venom is expensive because it's hard to milk those tiny little nipples.

Yes it is. The Kentucky Reptile Zoo does venom extraction on a variety of snakes. Here is their price list for venom: http://www.kyreptilezoo.org/?Venom_Extraction:Venom_Price_List (http://www.kyreptilezoo.org/?Venom_Extraction:Venom_Price_List) It ranges from $75/gram to $1000/gram.

This is the guy that runs the KRZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG4-9TpZ974 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG4-9TpZ974)

KZR has one of the largest collections of venomous snakes in the world with 2000 snakes in over 125 different species.
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: LadySmith on July 30, 2015, 08:39:34 AM: What is it lately with guys wanting to blast the heck out of harmless snakes or pose with dangerous ones? =|
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: makattak on July 30, 2015, 09:11:04 AM: Err... he uses "One Weird Trick" to waste $150K in a millisecond?
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: MechAg94 on July 30, 2015, 09:22:03 AM: Quote from: LadySmith on July 30, 2015, 08:39:34 AM
What is it lately with guys wanting to blast the heck out of harmless snakes or pose with dangerous ones? =|
Blasting the heck out of things is not new. Posing with dangerous things before blasting is new to me. =D
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: SADShooter on July 30, 2015, 09:26:13 AM: "Selfie Syndrome", the relentless compulsion to garner 15 seconds of fame one-upping everyone else's crazy on Facebook or Twitter, to the exclusion of anything resembling reason or common sense.
Title: Re: Man poses for selfie with rattle snake - You will never guess what happens next
Post by: makattak on July 30, 2015, 09:36:33 AM: Quote from: SADShooter on July 30, 2015, 09:26:13 AM
"Selfie Syndrome", the relentless compulsion to garner 15 seconds of fame one-upping everyone else's crazy on Facebook or Twitter, to the exclusion of anything resembling reason or common sense.

See, I have children for that.
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Hang up with the DCFS. I don't mean I'd put them next to the dangerous animal, just that children's pictures are far more likely to go viral.