How dumb can one man be

**Wood Borer** · 3rd June 2005, 03:14 PM

I have a great respect for snakes and I admire them.

For many reasons they are feared animals and when one of them defends themselves with fatal or near fatal results, the incident becomes headlines.

If other animals kill or cause harm to humans there is far less fuss. For example, mosquitoes kill more people per year than snakes, sharks and spiders put together. Generally we view mosquitoes as a nuisance rather than killers.

Car drivers have killed heaps of people. It would be surprising to find someone who has not lost a friend or a relative to a car accident. Snakes kill less people than car drivers in Australia.

To argue that snakes should treated with care or be killed because they are dangerous is a fair argument.

Using the same argument, car drivers (having killed and injured more people than snakes) should be treated with more care than snakes. What about killing car drivers? They have more chance of killing someone than a snake has of killing someone however most people (apart from Julian Knight) feel that the random killing car drivers is not a good idea. Even if they are more dangerous, we don’t condone killing car drivers.

People fear snakes for reasons they can’t explain but take every opportunity to highlight any negative behavior of snakes.

Would the idiot in the newspaper article have received any attention if his arm had been amputated due to an industrial accident, car accident etc. I suggest the only coverage he would have received would be in the death notices if the incident had been fatal.

Nature has a way of dealing with individuals who should not propagate and in this case, human intervention prevented nature from doing the rest of us a favour.

I wonder what happened to the poor snake.

**flea1607** · 3rd June 2005, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

I wonder what happened to the poor snake.

Probably got alcholic poisioning and died.

**zathras** · 4th June 2005, 10:25 AM

Look at the bright side, he can still hold his beer in the right hand

And the logical extension of that is he can never get bitten on the arm by a snake ever again

**spudddud** · 23rd June 2005, 07:08 AM

well really in order to be in the darwin awards they have to die too. I know his heart stopped 3 times but I think he needs to be dead dead.

**Iain** · 23rd June 2005, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by spudddud

in order to be in the darwin awards they have to die too.

They have Honourable Mentions and Personal Accounts for the near misses, anyway this bloke may have another go yet, he seems the right material.

**Simomatra** · 23rd June 2005, 09:52 AM

Well at least he has the honour to skite about at the local that he was sickest person to survive after a snake bite.

Should keep him in amber stuff up north in the frontier.

**routermaniac** · 23rd June 2005, 04:18 PM

I agree with what woodborer has said... unfortunately nature often takes a while to clean up the gene pool...

When I was an intern working in emergency I was frequently amazed at the stupid things people got up to. This guy was no exception I guess...

**Hans3469** · 25th September 2005, 03:26 AM

Wow,makes every dumb thing ive everdone,look like nothing,ha ha.
Shows just how stupid a person can get.

**Caliban** · 25th September 2005, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

I wonder what happened to the poor snake.

WB
He (she) probably died of alcohol poisoning.

Or caught d1ckhead syndrome.

**biotechy2k** · 27th September 2005, 01:29 PM

well as I have survived a brown snake bite (Thanks to the local vet of all people)

It was my own stupid fault for walking down to the creek without my boots on
to fill up the Billy a
little juvenile brown got me on the foot, thankfully my trusty steed called Rocket at the time got me from the back paddock to the boss's place in record time and the vet was only 10 mins away, I ended up buying that horse
for a carton of VB but that's another story
but I was in hosp for 2 months and sick as a dog but as for going to pick a snake up you would have to be a bloody Ijdit

and I had first aid knowledge and used 2 torniquets on the left leg mind you when I got to the bosses place I can't remember saying this but he quotes
"She fell off the horse at my feet wearning nothing but a flanney shirt and a pair of knickers and said" You'd better shot me boss I've been bitten by a brown snake" LOLOL

I also apparently told the vet if he'd got out here is record time he must be driving like a maniac and he'd better let me drive or else LOLOL

And he thought Chrissy had come early (called me Lady Bloody Godiva after that)
Needless to say I got a two week paid holiday from Breaking in the horses and fence building and still have no feeling or pain response on the left side of my left foot. LOLOL
But thanks to a savy vet and a dam good horse I wouldn't be here today
cheers Biotechy

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