O.K., here is the 4-1-1 on Animal Planet’s pygmy rattlesnake.
It turns out that the pygmy rattlesnake was from Florida. The guy who got bitten had what they call in the snakebite-emergency-medicine business “a legitimate bite”. That means the victim did nothing to provoke the snake. He didn’t even know it was there.
“There” was a potted palm.
This guy went to a gardening center to pick up some palm trees for his yard. He reached down to pick up a potted plant and BAM, a snake that was sitting in the container bites him.
The moral of the story is: Buyer beware.
He lived, and didn’t even lose his hand or any part of his hand.
I’m going back to bed now.
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