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Drunk Rednecks
I dont know how this story is not in the archives when it is really the perfect darwin award story.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2016/12/unusual_deaths_in_alabama.html
"Game of rattlesnake catch
An east Alabama man was killed on Sept. 6, 1995 in a drunken game of catch with a live rattlesnake. Another man was hospitalized.
Joe Buddy Caine, 35, of the Cleburne County community of Edwardsville, died a little more than hour after being bitten on the arm by a 4-foot rattlesnake.
The men told emergency personnel that they had starting drinking after a day of farm work. They got drunk and started playing with a snake they found.
Cleburne Emergency Medical Service medic Skipper Bailey said the men would catch the snake by the tail, let it go and catch it again.
"Then the snake got tired of being caught by the tail," he said"
This is verified by newspaper accounts in 1995
Submitted on 06/22/2020
Submitted by:
Jackie Spirtoff
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