Fla. retard captures cottonmouth snake, gets bitten on lip

[Hillary Hillbillies]

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Wimauma, Florida -- Deputies say a Hillsborough County teenager
is in the hospital after he was bitten on the lips by a venomous
snake.

Investigators say 18-year-old Austin Hatfield captured a
cottonmouth snake on Saturday and put the reptile in a
pillowcase at his girlfriend's house in Wimauma. At some point
the snake escaped from the pillowcase and bit Hatfield on the
mouth.

He was taken to the hospital in critical condition, but has
since upgraded to good condition.

Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are
extremely dangerous and their bites can be deadly.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is
investigating. Officials say it is illegal to capture and keep a
cottonmouth snake in the state of Florida, unless a permit is
issued.

Hatfield reportedly did not have a permit.

http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/2015/04/22/snake-bites-teen-on-
lip/26179175/

[AlleyCat]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:35:45 +0200 (CEST), Hillary Hillbillies says...

Post by Hillary Hillbillies
Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are
extremely dangerous and their bites can be deadly.

LOL... whomever wrote the copy must not BE from Florida. WE call them
Cottonmouths, but that's not their designation. It should read, "Water
Moccasins, sometimes called Cottonmouths, are...".

It's the old all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs. All
Cottonmouths are Moccasins, but not all Moccasins...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_piscivorus

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Post by AlleyCat
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:35:45 +0200 (CEST), Hillary Hillbillies says...

Post by Hillary Hillbillies
Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are
extremely dangerous and their bites can be deadly.

LOL... whomever wrote the copy must not BE from Florida. WE call them
Cottonmouths, but that's not their designation. It should read, "Water
Moccasins, sometimes called Cottonmouths, are...".
It's the old all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs. All
Cottonmouths are Moccasins, but not all Moccasins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_piscivorus

Something most of us down here learned by the time we were 6 years
old.
Saw the famous "Crocodile Hunter" fall backwards over a log on his
show when he thought he knew how to piss with a cottonmouth.
He poked at one in a log with a stick and it shot out and then turned
right around on him.
Anyone from down here knows full well that cottonmouths, unlike a lot
of water moccasins or "fish snakes", are pretty much born pissed off.
And they aren't the flimsy long wormy, albeit deadly, snakes in
Australia that you can get control of just by picking them up by the
tail.