Moving in the Right Direction

[georged]

Yet another social media "influencer" is in the news. This time it's a guy who thought getting high and messing around in the Florida boondocks would be great for click$ ... while wearing shorts and knowing absolutely nothing about the situation, the animals, or much of anything else, apparently (in spite of his online persona as a "Nature admirer")

It didn't take long for an Eastern Diamondback to remind him that Mother Nature isn't sentimental, though.

Then the cameras switched on, and he started to comment on the situation with a California-sober air of detached amusement.

The fun began to fade a couple minutes later when the massive quantity of animal-tissue-dissolving hemotoxic venom injected by the snake started to work its magic and convert his leg into a meat-and-blood Slushee.

A life flight to the nearest hospital and a quarter of a million dollars worth of antivenin later (88 vials), and it remains to be seen if his leg will survive, never mind him, but boy howdy a good time was had by everyone involved.

Me? I'm all for Influencers doing this kind of stuff for clicks. I think standing in front of fast-moving trains, jumping off tall buildings without a parachute, and slapping a grizzly bear in the face should be done next. (The rattlesnake thing is good, but the outcome too drawn out.)

 

[tbradsim1]

You can’t fix STUPID!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

More of them should hug on buffalo at Yellowstone.

 

[jpberg]

I’m quite bitter that there wasn’t as large a market for stupid when I was young.
I’d be retired by now.

 

[warren]

That boy should have stayed in the shallow end of the gene pool.

 

[woodsroad]

The correct way to do this sort of thing, as any swamp-dweller knows, is to preceed such actions with “Here, hold my beer”. “Hold my doob” never, ever works.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

More of them should hug on buffalo at Yellowstone.

Meh. Let em try to ride a moose.

 

[ssjones]

Natural selection never fails, it just takes a while sometimes.
I'm researching kayak fishing down here. I noticed all the "don't feed the alligator signs" in the nature preserve. I asked a guy if anyone ever gets bit. He said, yep, but only ones looking for trouble.

 

[brian64]

Snake handling requires a high level of expertise (apparently they weren't high enough).

If they really want serious click$, they need to learn from the experts:

 

[woodsroad]

Natural selection never fails, it just takes a while sometimes.
I'm researching kayak fishing down here. I noticed all the "don't feed the alligator signs" in the nature preserve. I asked a guy if anyone ever gets bit. He said, yep, but only ones looking for trouble.

 

[georged]

Snake handling requires a high level of expertise (apparently they weren't high enough).

If they really want serious click$, they need to learn from the experts:

Ah, the "suck it out" schtick. lol (That hasn't been recommended for half a century... it's pointless because the venom enters a victim's bloodstream virtually instantaneously)

Not to mention a pit viper biting and hanging on constrictor-snake-style. (They don't... they're lightning-fast stabber-injectors)

Utter garbage.

I'm sure the writers and "actors"(?) of that lovely scene only made a few million dollars each for their contribution to the creation of it, though.

 

[mikethompson]

There have always been stupid people. There hasn't always been the internet for them to be documented.

 

[georged]

There have always been stupid people. There hasn't always been the internet for them to be documented.

Yup.

And the resulting "one upmanship" contest is a positive feedback loop.

(No wonder the space aliens moved on after checking us out for a few decades)

 

[brian64]

Ah, the "suck it out" schtick. lol (That hasn't been recommended for half a century... it's pointless because the venom enters a victim's bloodstream virtually instantaneously)

Not to mention a pit viper biting and hanging on constrictor-snake-style. (They don't... they're lightning-fast stabber-injectors)

Utter garbage.

I'm sure the writers and "actors"(?) of that lovely scene only made a few million dollars each for their contribution to the creation of it, though.

lol ... yeah, I think it was meant to be taken as a farce.

 

[georged]

lol ... yeah, I think it was meant to be taken as a farce.

Zero doubt.

The endless perpetuation of complete bullshit never fails to piss me off, is all. Especially aggravating when it's comedy (black or otherwise), because watchers subconsciously assume hooks and gags are based on fact... because that's what makes such routines funny.

 

[trouttimes]

Natural selection never fails, it just takes a while sometimes.
I'm researching kayak fishing down here. I noticed all the "don't feed the alligator signs" in the nature preserve. I asked a guy if anyone ever gets bit. He said, yep, but only ones looking for trouble.

You only have to worry during mating season or if you keep fish on a stringer over the side of your yak.

 

[anotherbob]

Ah, the "suck it out" schtick. lol (That hasn't been recommended for half a century... it's pointless because the venom enters a victim's bloodstream virtually instantaneously)

Not to mention a pit viper biting and hanging on constrictor-snake-style. (They don't... they're lightning-fast stabber-injectors)

Utter garbage.

I'm sure the writers and "actors"(?) of that lovely scene only made a few million dollars each for their contribution to the creation of it, though.

don't forget your mouth (as in any humans) mouth is just gross and will can lead to a worse infection then what the snake did. I knew a guy that punched a pos in the face and got a nasty infection from the tooth that stuck in their fist. Fun stuff.