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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: Snaggletiger on April 11, 2012, 12:46:31 PM
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Well okay, so we weren't. But, one of the secretaries here just told me about her next door neighbor, a 14 year old boy, who got popped by a water mocassin this past weekend. They have some swampy land behind their house and this boy and another were walking across a log and he slipped and his leg went in the water. He was bitten twice on the leg.
Within about 30 minutes, she said it looked like his leg was about to explode. Now get this. He's rushed to one of the hospitals here, where he's given 2 anti-venom shots and put on an amberlamps to B'ham with 2 more shots to be given on the way. He's in ICU in the Ham. The bill for 35 minutes at Flowers Hospital and 2 anti-venom shots......$198,000.00. With more shots and ICU, you're easily looking at $1 million.
I think it's an obvious mistake in billing but what if it's not? Anyone ever heered of such? Plus, mocassins are obviously legendary when it comes to scaring the bajeebus out of people, but I've never actually heard of someone getting bitten. Apparently some seriously bad venom.
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HAS to be a mistake in billing. A heart transplant doesn't cost a million.
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Antivenin.
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Antivenin.
Really? Seriously...never seen it spelled. Always assumed people were saying anti-venom because...well, you know...
Learn something new everyday.
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Really? Seriously...never seen it spelled. Always assumed people were saying anti-venom because...well, you know...
Learn something new everyday.
srsly
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This is preferable to me...
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Both are acceptable in the English language: Antivenom (or antivenin or antivenene).
Don't listen to Webster.
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Antivenin.
Wes would know. He's a lawyer. He's required to get milked twice a week.
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Don't listen to Webster.
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Now listen here, bitch. Just because I had Michael Jackson's hand shoved up my ass doesn't mean I'm not credible.
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Both are acceptable in the English language: Antivenom (or antivenin or antivenene).
Don't listen to Webster.
Well, either way, he hyphenated it and I demand a full deduction of points for this!
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Wes would know. He's a lawyer. He's required to get milked twice a week.
I like being milked every night.
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Well okay, so we weren't. But, one of the secretaries here just told me about her next door neighbor, a 14 year old boy, who got popped by a water mocassin this past weekend. They have some swampy land behind their house and this boy and another were walking across a log and he slipped and his leg went in the water. He was bitten twice on the leg.
Within about 30 minutes, she said it looked like his leg was about to explode. Now get this. He's rushed to one of the hospitals here, where he's given 2 anti-venom shots and put on an amberlamps to B'ham with 2 more shots to be given on the way. He's in ICU in the Ham. The bill for 35 minutes at Flowers Hospital and 2 anti-venom shots......$198,000.00. With more shots and ICU, you're easily looking at $1 million.
I think it's an obvious mistake in billing but what if it's not? Anyone ever heered of such? Plus, mocassins are obviously legendary when it comes to scaring the bajeebus out of people, but I've never actually heard of someone getting bitten. Apparently some seriously bad venom.
I've heard that cottonmouths/water moccasins are among the most aggressive of the poisonous snakes in the US and I have heard of people getting bitten. When this kid slipped he most likely stepped on it. There's an old wive's tale that they can't strike underwater but, as is obvious in this case, that isn't true.
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Just for the record, I am not a fan of old wives.
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Just for the record, I am not a fan of old wives.
Yeah, they have tails and are full of venom.
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I grew up on the Alabama river. The first thing always loaded into the boat was the gun. I've seen some big ass water moccasins. They love to sun themselves on the bank.
Thought it would be funny one day to hit one with my lure. Not funny. He chased it back to the boat and tried to get in. Harder to hit with a .22 pistol when they are moving.
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Just for the record, I am not a fan of old wives.
The problem with old wives is they usually have old husbands with guns.
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I got a snake for y'all.
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I've heard that cottonmouths/water moccasins are among the most aggressive of the poisonous snakes in the US and I have heard of people getting bitten. When this kid slipped he most likely stepped on it. There's an old wive's tale that they can't strike underwater but, as is obvious in this case, that isn't true.
They are very aggressive and let out a strong musk as well. Copperheads and Rattlesnakes (some) would just as soon be left alone. Cottonmouths are just plain mean and itching to hit a lick. (Too soon?)
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Cottonmouths are just plain mean and itching to hit a lick.
Only when they on dat spice.
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I grew up on the Alabama river. The first thing always loaded into the boat was the gun. I've seen some big ass water moccasins. They love to sun themselves on the bank.
Thought it would be funny one day to hit one with my lure. Not funny. He chased it back to the boat and tried to get in. Harder to hit with a .22 pistol when they are moving.
Was bream fishing on Lake Eufaula one time and pulled up to a fallen tree to fish around it. Got about 10 yards from it when we spotted one curled up in the tree. He didn't hesitate and took a direct line towards the boat. I took my pole and kept trying to hit him until finally I popped him good and he took off. But damn, what an aggressive mofo.
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Was bream fishing on Lake Eufaula one time and pulled up to a fallen tree to fish around it. Got about 10 yards from it when we spotted one curled up in the tree. He didn't hesitate and took a direct line towards the boat. I took my pole and kept trying to hit him until finally I popped him good and he took off. But damn, what an aggressive mofo.
The bad part is, if he gets in the boat, where you gonna go? I've seen many a paddle beat to splinters. My dad just looks at me and says, "Now you know why we load the gun first."
CHOOT'EM. CHOOT'EM.
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Anti-venom for a coral snake costs around $50,000. $1 million seems a bit ridiculous. Has to be a billing mistake.
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Anti-venom for a coral snake costs around $50,000.
Why?
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Why?
In case you get bit right outside the door of the hospital that has it.
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Why?
Because they stopped producing it 2 years ago. So it is hard to find now. Don't ask me how I know this.
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Don't ask me how I know this.
Ok, how do you know this?
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Ok, how do you know this?
Because as a way to pay for law school, AWK sucks out the venom of the victims.
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Because as a way to pay for law school, AWK sucks out the venom of the victims.
Ima thinking there is wayyyyy more to it than just this. We may get to the bottom of things with this little clue right here.
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I got a cool snake story bro.
I was fishing in a river from the bank and I had my fish on a fish stringer. When it was time to go I picked up the stringer to discover a moccasin had swallowed a fish on my stringer and was stuck on the end of my stringer. I don't know who was more surprised the snake or me. The snake was trying like crazy to get off the stringer, but he was stuck. I threw the entire thing, stringer, fish on the stringer, and snake into the river and got the heck out of there.
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Copperheads and Rattlesnakes (some) would just as soon be left alone. (Too soon?)
The hell you say. About like a Red Wasp shies away from trouble.
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The hell you say. About like a Red Wasp shies away from trouble.
My dad and I would be fishing in Mill Creek off of the Alabama River in Camden surrounded by gators and snakes but the first time the boat bumped one of the thousands of stumps that would have a wasp or a hornet nest on it you can bet we went for a swim. Just picture red wasps crawling around on a nest the size of a dinner plate. (shiver)
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My dad and I would be fishing in Mill Creek off of the Alabama River in Camden surrounded by gators and snakes but the first time the boat bumped one of the thousands of stumps that would have a wasp or a hornet nest on it you can bet we went for a swim. Just picture red wasps crawling around on a nest the size of a dinner plate. (shiver)
Red Wasps have to be the most aggressive, pissed off creatures in the entire animal world.
And to actually get stung by one or more is even worse. Feels like a fucking hot poker for a good length of time. Have gotten stung by some the last 2 summers and you don't even see it coming - they just see you and get you.
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My dad and I would be fishing in Mill Creek off of the Alabama River in Camden surrounded by gators and snakes but the first time the boat bumped one of the thousands of stumps that would have a wasp or a hornet nest on it you can bet we went for a swim. Just picture red wasps crawling around on a nest the size of a dinner plate. (shiver)
THIS X 100000000000000000000...infinity. Wasps are my big heebie-jeebie. Was fishing last year in a remote part of a river in Georgia. (Cue banjo music) Came to this area with a bunch of dead trees sticking out of the water. When we got close, saw that they were all covered in those dinner plate sized nests with about 500 red wasps on steroids on each one. I started freaking out and my buddy was like, "Oh, they ain't gonna' do nuthin'...
NO....YOU ASSHOLE...BACK THIS BOAT UP NOW!!!!
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THIS X 100000000000000000000...infinity. Wasps are my big heebie-jeebie. Was fishing last year in a remote part of a river in Georgia. (Cue banjo music) Came to this area with a bunch of dead trees sticking out of the water. When we got close, saw that they were all covered in those dinner plate sized nests with about 500 red wasps on steroids on each one. I started freaking out and my buddy was like, "Oh, they ain't gonna' do nuthin'...
NO....YOU a-hole...BACK THIS BOAT UP NOW!!!!
My dad would tell me, "If you hear me jump in, you jump in too. We'll figure out how to get back in the boat later."
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Red Wasps have to be the most aggressive, pissed off creatures in the entire animal world.
And to actually get stung by one or more is even worse. Feels like a fucking hot poker for a good length of time. Have gotten stung by some the last 2 summers and you don't even see it coming - they just see you and get you.
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Was gonna say at the least they are tied with Badgers and Wolverines.
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Red Wasps have to be the most aggressive, pissed off creatures in the entire animal world.
And to actually get stung by one or more is even worse. Feels like a fucking hot poker for a good length of time. Have gotten stung by some the last 2 summers and you don't even see it coming - they just see you and get you.
Many years ago, I was cutting grass on a hot day. Sat on the back steps to take a swig of cold beer. A red wasp was hovering right about eye level and within arms reach. I swatted at it with my hat, and missed. The next few seconds were like in slow motion. I saw everything develop before my eyes, yet was powerless to stop it. He had avoided my swat, then repositioned where he'd been hovering. I actually could discern his intent from those black bug eyes, and I swear I heard him say, "Oh yeah fuck stick, well how do you like this shit?" Then I saw the back half lower...and it's like he suddenly put it in reverse, and he hit me just above the knee! Yeah, they hurt, but I've had one sting worse, and don't even know what it was. Helping a buddy put up a tree stand near Waverly. I felt a critter crawling on my forearm, on the outside portion where I couldn't see it. As I started to instinctively swat at it, whatever it was stung me. I continued the swat, and got it off, but the sting was done, and it felt like someone drove a nail in to the bone of my forearm. It ached for 3 days.
Snake story: Fishing on Lake Eufala, snakes in trees everywhere. Saw them all day. Bud gets his lure stuck in a tree overhanging the bank. He carefully inspects as he glides us in with the trolling motor. No snake in that tree, but as he's getting his lure, the wind swings the back of the boat towards the bushes and my fucking asshole bud doesn't give a shit, and I start looking in the bushes, and I say "snake", but OH HELL NO, he's got to get that lure by God, and right now. I got up, yelled "snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake" picked up a paddle, and got to the other side of the small bass boat, as far away as possible, and the big fucker fell from it's branch, half in the boat, half out. Thank God, the half out was the head, and it slithered in to the water as I stood there with paddle in the air cussing and screaming.
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We had put up a new hot fence on my dad's farm. Someone (probably me) left an empty wire spool laying on the ground by the hot wire. Reached down to pick it up so I could throw it away. Apparently the red wasp that was making a home of the hole in the middle of the spool didn't like my finger there and stung the shit out of it. I slung the spool, and dance around to get away and managed to get my ankles up against the hot fence and it burned the shit out me. Fuck that day.
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We had put up a new hot fence on my dad's farm. Someone (probably me) left an empty wire spool laying on the ground by the hot wire. Reached down to pick it up so I could throw it away. Apparently the red wasp that was making a home of the hole in the middle of the spool didn't like my finger there and stung the shit out of it. I slung the spool, and dance around to get away and managed to get my ankles up against the hot fence and it burned the shit out me. Fuck that day.
Um... I know that I'm opening myself up by asking, but what's a hot fence?
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Um... I know that I'm opening myself up by asking, but what's a hot fence?
It was wearing a bikini
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We had put up a new hot fence on my dad's farm. Someone (probably me) left an empty wire spool laying on the ground by the hot wire. Reached down to pick it up so I could throw it away. Apparently the red wasp that was making a home of the hole in the middle of the spool didn't like my finger there and stung the shitake out of it. I slung the spool, and dance around to get away and managed to get my ankles up against the hot fence and it burned the shitake out me. fudge that day.
I would pay to see entertainment of that quality.
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It was wearing a bikini
Insert little rimshot emoticon.
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We had put up a new hot fence on my dad's farm. Someone (probably me) left an empty wire spool laying on the ground by the hot wire. Reached down to pick it up so I could throw it away. Apparently the red wasp that was making a home of the hole in the middle of the spool didn't like my finger there and stung the shitake out of it. I slung the spool, and dance around to get away and managed to get my ankles up against the hot fence and it burned the shitake out me. fudge that day.
You were a video camera away from $100,000
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We had put up a new hot fence on my dad's farm. Someone (probably me) left an empty wire spool laying on the ground by the hot wire. Reached down to pick it up so I could throw it away. Apparently the red wasp that was making a home of the hole in the middle of the spool didn't like my finger there and stung the shit out of it. I slung the spool, and dance around to get away and managed to get my ankles up against the hot fence and it burned the shit out me. Fuck that day.
Yeah, I'd say so. I'll talk shit to gators at Lake Eufaula but red wasps? Fuck that. I don't fuck with those little shitheads. You never win actually picking a fight with them. Of course as self defense (if you can manage to spot them before they get you), you can always get a can of that wasp spray that goes like 30 feet. I do hate getting that shit all over the front of my house because the little shits always like to congregate in my front yard at the shrubbery near where I turn on the underground sprinkler. They hide in the bushes just waiting on me to turn on the sprinkler or trim the shrubs, etc. I usually don't even see em coming.
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Um... I know that I'm opening myself up by asking, but what's a hot fence?
Seriously?
Its an electric fence. Go pee on one and you'll find out why they call it hot.
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Seriously?
Its an electric fence. Go pee on one and you'll find out why they call it hot.
Just ask AUT1.
And the larger the animal its for, the hotter it is usually.
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Seriously?
Its an electric fence. Go pee on one and you'll find out why they call it hot.
You will have to forgive him, he had slaves for that.
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Seriously?
Its an electric fence. Go pee on one and you'll find out why they call it hot.
Oh-kaaaay... Actually, that's what I suspected, but he said that it "burned the shit out me". Yeah... I've been buzzed by an electric fence before, but I can't say that it burned. It only burns when I pee... Wait... What?
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You will have to forgive him, he had slaves for that.
"Hey you, ova theya. Yeaha you, the dark one. Come hitha and lay yourself acroost this heara hot fence so I dun't hafta scorn my new 100 dolla snakeskin boots that I received as an honor...rary Grand Masta."
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Oh-kaaaay... Actually, that's what I suspected, but he said that it "burned the shit out me". Yeah... I've been buzzed by an electric fence before, but I can't say that it burned. It only burns when I pee... Wait... What?
It don't really burn but it will sure scare the shit out of you not expecting it. Well, of course that depends on what voltage one uses.
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You will have to forgive him, he had slaves for that.
Everybody was doing it back then.
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Oh-kaaaay... Actually, that's what I suspected, but he said that it "burned the shit out me". Yeah... I've been buzzed by an electric fence before, but I can't say that it burned. It only burns when I pee... Wait... What?
What GH said. It's electric. To keep heavy ass cows (especially the bulls) from leaning against the fence and using it to scratch, we would place a wire approx 2 feet out from the bottom about 6 to 8 inches high. Then turn the juice way up on that bastard. Yes, it will leave a nice burn mark across the legs just right above the ankles.
I would pay to see entertainment of that quality.
My dad and brother found it to be hilarious. Me, not so much.
Another thing that people beside myself find hilarious is when you cut hay, run over a snake, don't realize it and then it ends up in a square bale of hay. Reach down to pick it up to throw in on the trailer........Oh, look! SURPRISE! Real funny stuff apparently. People stand around and laugh. They also point a lot while laughing. Did you know that you can throw a 70lb bale a long way?
EDIT: Fuck that day too!
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Snakes generally don't scare me. Certainly, I give them all the respect in the world and no I don't want one in the boat with me. But, if I see one, I'm more apt to mess with him and try to pick him up if I know he's not poisonous. I was hunting one time and trying to walk very quietly down this path and caught movement just in front of me on the path. It was a rattlesnake crossing in front of me and my next step was on him. But, it was clear that he just wanted to get to wherever he was going and had no interest in me. So I just kneeled down and watched him, literally within arms length of me. He wasn't coiling, just moving along. No biggee.
Now conversely, two weeks ago we're down at the beach. Laying out by the pool, temps in the upper 80's. Sitting there talking and a red wasp buzzed the tower. I jerked like an epileptic in full seizure mode. The wife was laughing because I had goose bumps the size of apples all over me. I HATE those fuckers with a passion.
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Red Wasps have to be the most aggressive, pissed off creatures in the entire animal world.
This guy don't give a shit what you say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg#ws)
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Yes, yes...I posted that without reading further and noticing that it had already been posted.
I give myself a -50.
But a +2 for honesty, bitches.
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Yes, yes...I posted that without reading further and noticing that it had already been posted.
I give myself a -50.
But a +2 for honesty, bitches.
Was that you or one of the other TigersX Queenz narrating?
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Was that you or one of the other TigersX Queenz narrating?
I prefer "TigersX Beta," thank you very much.
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Oh-kaaaay... Actually, that's what I suspected, but he said that it "burned the shit out me". Yeah... I've been buzzed by an electric fence before, but I can't say that it burned. It only burns when I pee... Wait... What?
Were not talking about a hot fence in your yard for your dog or at a petting zoo. Large animal hot fences will literally burn you. They are designed for big ass cows and such so being a human at a fraction of their size puts a hurting on ya if you touch it.
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Were not talking about a hot fence in your yard for your dog or at a petting zoo. Large animal hot fences will literally burn you. They are designed for big ass cows and such so being a human at a fraction of their size puts a hurting on ya if you touch it.
Almost as much fun as taking a capacitor out of a washing machine and tossing it to a buddy. The ones out of disposable cameras will wake someone up as well.
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Almost as much fun as taking a capacitor out of a washing machine and tossing it to a buddy. The ones out of disposable cameras will wake someone up as well.
Is "said" buddy on this board? I would like to hear more if so.
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Almost as much fun as taking a capacitor out of a washing machine and tossing it to a buddy. The ones out of disposable cameras will wake someone up as well.
Who needs enemies when you have a friend like Uncle Sani?
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Is "said" buddy on this board? I would like to hear more if so.
nah. Smartassed EE that needed to be taken down a notch or twelve.
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How do I know? Well, I was bit by a trouser snake once.
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How do I know? Well, I was bit by a trouser snake once.
^^^You'll find no better expert on trouser snakes... Then, there's VV.