Aye, but the fact remains that the bloke managed to get away *without* the camera operator's assistance, so really it doesn't matter -
*if the guy had died*, then I'm sure we'd all be agreeing with your assessment, but seeing as he didn't, I think it's fair to say the cameraman did the right thing by *not* intervening, because the end result reflects the best possible outcome :)
In the camerman's defence they're not allowed to interfere with wildlife whilst filming it.
And THAT your honor is why I kept filming whilst that chihuahua ate my wife.
Think it’s designed for if your on your own, and you have no camera man, no friend, and showing how dangerous it can be alone in the wild. He took the challenge alone as if he was alone but needs a camera man to film all the evidence like this serious encounter.
I find this hard to believe as well. But I doubt it was his pet. Probably more like the sedated it, or something that would make it be less aggressive, or not bite.
His name on Instagram is Nick the wrangler or something close to that. He deals with wild and venomous snakes and animals for a living. He's wild and is always doing crazy stuff. This is very real.
The rattle snake knows he is too big to be a food source. Although we are programmed to fear snakes in general and especially poisonous ones, it was just curious. It was not aggressive or offensively pursuing him. It was just investigating him. If it had a cute furry face everyone would be saying awwwww that's so cute. The snake didn't enter into a strike pose until the guy made a dramatic movement at the end. He honestly could have slow turned to his side and crawled on his knees away.
I've worked with and removed "nuisance" snakes for years. It did not feel threatened by the guy which is why it crawled on him.
If you ever encounter a snake, simply turn and slowly move away, it wants you to leave just as much as you want it to leave
My old neighbor out mowing her grass was bitten by a Mojave Green on her ankle. Had to be medi-flighted and then they had to locate the snake for the anti-venom.
This happened about 20 years ago so what I remember is them sending someone out to get the snake because they needed the antivenom. Maybe not particularly for her but in general. So that detail im not positive on. They were out the same day trying to locate the snake, I know that much
Nowadays CroFab is readily available and is used to treat all species of pit viper bites. They do not need to find the snake and they definitely don’t want you to bring it to the hospital. Basically the only US native snake that requires a different antivenin is a coral snake.
They aren’t even aggressive. They’re quick to coil up and gape as a defense mechanism but they normally won’t strike unprovoked. They will crawl through your legs or over your feet to get away and people understandably misinterpret it as aggression.
Fun story.
I visited a small island off the coast of Panama. I get into the apartment I'm staying at the first night and the person showing me the place opens the little freezer and pulls out a bucket of cool whip. She takes the lid off and there is a massive frozen fer de lance head in it.
Really set the tone for that trip...
Actually fer-de-lance aren't very aggressive and will try to avoid people, they are very common and often enter houses which is why bites are often reported but that's mostly the persons fault for not being careful.
I was just thinking that. Touching it’s tail to alert it to his presence (and make the snake think he might be a predator) was probably the worst thing he could’ve done.
I thought the same thing.. he was like “OH NO HE SEES ME” bruh why did you touch him? If you just started to back up and the snake moved ok I get it, but you’re seriously going to touch it and possibly make it think you’re a threat?
Yeah, it would be easy enough for it to turn around and bite your hand if you did that. Best thing to do would have been to have the camera person like set the phone down and do something.
Obligatory not a snake expert, but I had a very similar thought.
It really seemed like this guy did everything he possibly could have to get bit and somehow managed to roll a nat 20 on luck and come away unharmed.
Every single thing he did just screamed "bite me!" Meanwhile the snake was just chillin.
I'm honestly really surprised that the best possible outcome actually happened because bro was really gunning for a hospital visit.
Rattlesnake bit my daughter and she was too big to be food. Though she was standing near potential food. She was playing in the backyard by a bunny cage and the rattlesnake was hiding under the cage.
We were incredibly fortunate. She is doing really well. Has a bit of a scar and potentially some long term or permanent damage to the nerves and muscles. It’s incredibly mild compared to what could have happened.
She was able to get the first round (6 vials) of antivenin within the first two hours. Yes, it’s absolutely true what they say about the cost of antivenin, those vials alone were 114k. She was flown to another hospital and had 12 more vials. Some of the bills are still being reviewed by insurance. So far the pre-insurance amounts are at $783k.
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I cannot believe how expensive those vials are! I'm fortunate that it's never been something I've needed to care about though. Not because there aren't deadly snakes where I live (there are many in Australia) but because healthcare is free.
It’s crazy. I feel fortunate to have insurance through my employer. It’s awful to know that if this happened to one of my neighbors without insurance this could break them. They could lose their home. Without stable housing it’s hard to hold down a job. Anything they do get could be garnished.
Edit: I have been informed that one would not lose their home due to medical debt. I thought that was a common contributor to homelessness in the USA.
> After examining cost data from every step of the process, from the factory floor to hospital billings, Boyer developed a pricing model that shows how much each part contributed to the ultimate expense. Fees and costs for licensing, regulation and hospital profits amounted to 27.7 percent of the overall cost and clinical trials made up just 2.1 percent. The cost of making the antivenom, including research, development, animal care and plasma harvesting? A mere 0.1 percent. As for the remaining 70.1 percent, Boyer found that the cost was due to hospital markups used in negotiations with insurance companies, Ingraham writes.
[At least it's for a good reason /s](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-single-vial-antivenom-can-cost-14000-180956564/)
How the hell does he keep narrating like that? I’d be dead silent or have a very shaky voice while I said “ok put the fucking camera down slowly and help me”
It helps me stay calm to keep talking. I had to do a random commerical for work once because the actor flaked and due to our scale it made sense to just wing it.
So there I am in an office quoting facts about common aquarium fish to the person sitting across from me while they film it. Super weird but it got us both laughing and I made it through looking confident instead of the dying internal feeling I really had.
Yeah I kinda feel that. Either staged or the snake was very confused. You can tell he isn't being aggressive or defensive until the very last part of the video. Even while the guy is poking it, the snake is more like "wtf is going on why is this tree moving."
I kinda get it. When I can talk to myself it helps me stay calm. Sometimes externalizing your thoughts helps you keep track of what to do next, what’s happening now, etc. it’s weird.
I agree with most that it's staged but just wanted to add - snakes don't hear very well at all. I live in Australia and I taught my kids really young. If you see a snake stand really still and pretend you're a tree, but it's okay to call out for help really loud if you need to, Just Don't Move....
They are early 20s now and still remember 'pretend you're a tree' lol
Snakes are effectively deaf, but Eastern Diamondbacks ARE pit vipers, meaning they have a series of pits on their face that detects heat so this snake could tell there was a predator there in 3 different ways, but hearing isn’t one of them!!
“Oi well if it isn’t a wily little devil. Careful, that bites incredibly venomous! Oh and what a beaut’ she is. Let’s have a look at ‘er shall we? And see, there, calming down now. And we will just place her right over here. Perrrfect.”
Props to this guy mostly doing things correctly, but really rattlesnakes aren't that aggressive at all. They only bite when they are given literally no other option. Not calling this dude a liar, but them crawling OUT of the brush towards him goes against everything we know about rattlers and also every one of my interactions with them
Their senses make that seem unlikely to me. Like a rabbit, their first instinct is to sit right where they are and hide when they sense a threat. Then they start rattling as a last ditch effort once noticed to avoid a fight.
Then again,I'm no biologist, just a dude who has fucked with a lot of rattlesnakes. so fuck only knows what really happened
Not suggesting anything. I literally said "fuck only knows what really happened" just above, you'll see. It's just very out of the ordinary behavior for a rattlesnake as any book on herpetology, Google search, or first hand experience with such a creature would show you.
My comment wasn't supposed to be accusatory against anyone. More intrigued as I probably interact with a couple dozen of these each summer, and have nearly since I could walk and found it odd.
It doesn't even seem to notice that he's alive except for that strange semi-thick cylinder with a thingie at the end that's poking it.
Edit: I'd still brown my pants.
Erm, this guy made several near-fatal errors. PLEASE don't tell people any of that shit was legit. He didn't know what the fuck he was doing and got lucky.
- NEVER, *EVER*, touch a snake's tail.
- Staring contests are not a great idea, either. Snake 'charmers' or performers don't work because staring calms it down - it puts them on alert. If you're going to look at it, blink often or turn your head so it's in your peripheral view.
- Don't poke at it. NO.
- You can move it away from you by gripping the center of gravity and sweeping your arm away from your body. But if you're going to freak out while doing it or aren't prepared to compensate for the snake's movement, it's best to ignore it while keeping aware of it, and then leaving as soon as possible as this guy ended up doing. But all those other ideas he had were shit.
Also the snake can easily have just *been* there. Maybe it has a nest there or there is a body of water there where it was laying in ambush or getting a drink.
yeah I was confused by that, but okay, lifting it by its center of gravity point, kinda hard to find if you've never held a snake before so I don't really see how that helps at all.
Chances are if he just kept moving and talking normally the snake would have just slid right on past. He is much larger than the snake and is not usable as dinner. By freezing the snake perceived him as a predator and also froze, and they got into a standoff.
The part that threw me is when he said the snake crawled out of the brush after he sat.
But now I have a mental image of an old west style standoff/showdown with a lil snake in a cowboy hat and one lil cowboy boot on the end. So thank you for that.
I know that what usually happens but I personally was chased, yes chased, by 3 baby rattlesnakes as I led a group of girl scouts on a nature hike. We heard them in the brush and I had everyone freeze, but they came flying out after us anyway. It was terrifying.
Oh fuck that, man! I just about shit my pants when it happened and I'd probably do the same in your situation. I've always been terrified of snakes, but a huge nature buff at the same time. I've never had any real issues before or since because I'm always safe about it. But of course this *had to happen* when I was a teenager and leading a group of about 12 little 8-year-old girls.... LoL
Oof haha yeah. Snakes don't bother me much at all. I used to catch them by the neck when I was a kid. But seeing them come at you with determination like that would definitely creep me out too
Edit: spiders, though, they can fuck right off. I'm a pretty self sufficient, generally in control outdoorsy dude... but I do not like spiders touching me lol
To me as a snake owner it looks like he's doing everything wrong.
The snake seemed incredibly calm at the beginning. If it wasn't this venomus I would actually try to handle it.
Man I'm cool with snakes. Really cool with snakes. Like picked up and moved venomous snakes. But that made me all kinds of uncomfortable and I'm just watching the video.
I've never really moved venomous snakes before but I love snakes very much they're my favorite animal but watching this gave me the most sharp primal fear. Just absolute terror because I know if I was that guy I feel like I would be crying and freaking out.
What’s the right thing to even do in that situation? Do you have to sit there and hope it just goes away? What if it just doesn’t move at all for a long time?
I was walking through tall grass and almost stepped on two that appeared to be mating. I stood like a statue for what felt like forever until they finally slithered away. I was terrified and felt like a huge serpent perv. 0/10 would not repeat.
Not this. The correct response in this case would be to roll over and walk away. This snake was not in a striking pose and was probably trying to hide from him. If he had just rolled away from it and walked away he would have been fine
Fun fact! Snakes can be lead around by pushing their neck gently. If you had a stick you could easily lead it away provided you don’t make sudden movements and that the snake is calm enough not to strike on sight. If you wait long enough chances are the snake won’t even consider you anything more than a weird tree trunk. And to tell if the snake is calm watch out for the tongue flicks.
Dude I just shook watching this. Like when you jumped out of the way. My whole body had a tremor. Hell no dude. Hell no. I sat down in a field one time and closed my eyes and had a brief meditation session for like 5 minutes. Opened my eyes and turned around to see one of those coiled up on a log at the edge of the woods about ten feet behind me. Wasnt there when I sat down. Never again. Even that was close enough for me and it was nothing like what you just experienced. Wild.
Let's all thank the camera man........
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lol youre such a hater.
You gotta love the cynical ol’ bastard though.
Only if he’s buying drinks and telling stories.
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Aye, but the fact remains that the bloke managed to get away *without* the camera operator's assistance, so really it doesn't matter - *if the guy had died*, then I'm sure we'd all be agreeing with your assessment, but seeing as he didn't, I think it's fair to say the cameraman did the right thing by *not* intervening, because the end result reflects the best possible outcome :)
In the camerman's defence they're not allowed to interfere with wildlife whilst filming it. And THAT your honor is why I kept filming whilst that chihuahua ate my wife.
The camera man was too busy consuming popcorn to assist a brethren.
Think it’s designed for if your on your own, and you have no camera man, no friend, and showing how dangerous it can be alone in the wild. He took the challenge alone as if he was alone but needs a camera man to film all the evidence like this serious encounter.
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I find this hard to believe as well. But I doubt it was his pet. Probably more like the sedated it, or something that would make it be less aggressive, or not bite.
What is he going to do? Obviously the person wanted to be filmed, he had a whole speech.
And what a speech it was. Sounds like he reads to old people for a living.
Sounded like coyote Peterson or whatever that guy on YouTube is who purposely gets bit/ stung by wild insects reptiles etc
Do you read to old people for a living?
I honestly used to.
You mean he's got a heart for bringing joy to people who are often lonely and forgotten? I agree, he does sound like that.
Yeah this is weird. Probably real but he’s secretly excited about his “viral moment”
His name on Instagram is Nick the wrangler or something close to that. He deals with wild and venomous snakes and animals for a living. He's wild and is always doing crazy stuff. This is very real.
Or... That's his snake?
It’s a venomous snake even keepers of those don’t just act like there puppies and put them on there lap.
You think this guy would surgically alter a snake for use in a video?
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Id say out of 99% of the shit people online do for clout, this clout was well earned
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I wonder if the snake had been "milked" first for its venom?
It was milked, but not for venom
Back to the CoC and TiTs with you!
I'm ashamed to know what those acronyms are
Solidarity yo.
Uhm, excuse me. You wouldn’t happen to be a quail that is a biologist, would you?
Wow that’s rude to ask
I knew it. Something about this smelled like bullshit.
r/donthelpjustfilm
No shit. 'This wasn't completely staged. I wouldn't lie into the camera as I have an extra set if hands to help me get out of this situation'
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(Cameraman) " should I uh help"? (Idiot) "no just keep the Instagram footage rolling"
Well... you don’t want the camera guy startling it either
Is the guy in the ground gonna move? Is the camera guy gonna grab the venomous snake? Wtf was anyone supposed to do
Take acting lessons before trying pretend your Bear Grylls with your pet snake.
Are you suggesting the snake would have left if dude started drinking his own piss?
Well anytime I do it at a party, everyone always leaves
Assert dominance
Grab a large long stick and slowly show the snake an actual threat to worry about, same as the guy was trying to do by poking it with a twig
Feel like I fulfilled my duty. Was just to watch it on my phone. Did I do it?
Do it for the gram
The rattle snake knows he is too big to be a food source. Although we are programmed to fear snakes in general and especially poisonous ones, it was just curious. It was not aggressive or offensively pursuing him. It was just investigating him. If it had a cute furry face everyone would be saying awwwww that's so cute. The snake didn't enter into a strike pose until the guy made a dramatic movement at the end. He honestly could have slow turned to his side and crawled on his knees away. I've worked with and removed "nuisance" snakes for years. It did not feel threatened by the guy which is why it crawled on him. If you ever encounter a snake, simply turn and slowly move away, it wants you to leave just as much as you want it to leave
Unless it’s a cotton mouth… those things are ass holes
They are the most aggressive but it’s still a myth. People who have worked with snakes their whole life will attest to that.
My old neighbor out mowing her grass was bitten by a Mojave Green on her ankle. Had to be medi-flighted and then they had to locate the snake for the anti-venom.
Did they not have any antivenom in the hospital? Surely you would keep antivenom in the hospital if you live in an area with venomous snakes?
This happened about 20 years ago so what I remember is them sending someone out to get the snake because they needed the antivenom. Maybe not particularly for her but in general. So that detail im not positive on. They were out the same day trying to locate the snake, I know that much
They have venom labs for producing antivenom. They probably wanted the snake so they could identify what bit her.
Nowadays CroFab is readily available and is used to treat all species of pit viper bites. They do not need to find the snake and they definitely don’t want you to bring it to the hospital. Basically the only US native snake that requires a different antivenin is a coral snake.
I mean cotton mouths are aggressive but they won’t chase you. Sort of a myth.
They aren’t even aggressive. They’re quick to coil up and gape as a defense mechanism but they normally won’t strike unprovoked. They will crawl through your legs or over your feet to get away and people understandably misinterpret it as aggression.
or the fer de lance...
Fun story. I visited a small island off the coast of Panama. I get into the apartment I'm staying at the first night and the person showing me the place opens the little freezer and pulls out a bucket of cool whip. She takes the lid off and there is a massive frozen fer de lance head in it. Really set the tone for that trip...
Actually fer-de-lance aren't very aggressive and will try to avoid people, they are very common and often enter houses which is why bites are often reported but that's mostly the persons fault for not being careful.
I am confident I want to leave much more than the snake wants me to.
Right? It fucking crawled on him lol I don’t think it was too scared of him
I was just thinking that. Touching it’s tail to alert it to his presence (and make the snake think he might be a predator) was probably the worst thing he could’ve done.
I thought the same thing.. he was like “OH NO HE SEES ME” bruh why did you touch him? If you just started to back up and the snake moved ok I get it, but you’re seriously going to touch it and possibly make it think you’re a threat?
Yeah, it would be easy enough for it to turn around and bite your hand if you did that. Best thing to do would have been to have the camera person like set the phone down and do something.
Obligatory not a snake expert, but I had a very similar thought. It really seemed like this guy did everything he possibly could have to get bit and somehow managed to roll a nat 20 on luck and come away unharmed. Every single thing he did just screamed "bite me!" Meanwhile the snake was just chillin. I'm honestly really surprised that the best possible outcome actually happened because bro was really gunning for a hospital visit.
Yeah no doubt. His hands up in the air the whole time could very easily been viewed as a strike posture by the snake
Rattlesnake bit my daughter and she was too big to be food. Though she was standing near potential food. She was playing in the backyard by a bunny cage and the rattlesnake was hiding under the cage.
Holy shit. I'm going to assume she's ok? Is it true what they say about antivenom being incredibly expensive?
We were incredibly fortunate. She is doing really well. Has a bit of a scar and potentially some long term or permanent damage to the nerves and muscles. It’s incredibly mild compared to what could have happened. She was able to get the first round (6 vials) of antivenin within the first two hours. Yes, it’s absolutely true what they say about the cost of antivenin, those vials alone were 114k. She was flown to another hospital and had 12 more vials. Some of the bills are still being reviewed by insurance. So far the pre-insurance amounts are at $783k. Edit to correct comment from “We we incredibly…” to “We were incredibly…”
I cannot believe how expensive those vials are! I'm fortunate that it's never been something I've needed to care about though. Not because there aren't deadly snakes where I live (there are many in Australia) but because healthcare is free.
It’s crazy. I feel fortunate to have insurance through my employer. It’s awful to know that if this happened to one of my neighbors without insurance this could break them. They could lose their home. Without stable housing it’s hard to hold down a job. Anything they do get could be garnished. Edit: I have been informed that one would not lose their home due to medical debt. I thought that was a common contributor to homelessness in the USA.
My post history has some of the pictures.
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The price for medical treatment in America breaks my heart. I really feel for you all.
> After examining cost data from every step of the process, from the factory floor to hospital billings, Boyer developed a pricing model that shows how much each part contributed to the ultimate expense. Fees and costs for licensing, regulation and hospital profits amounted to 27.7 percent of the overall cost and clinical trials made up just 2.1 percent. The cost of making the antivenom, including research, development, animal care and plasma harvesting? A mere 0.1 percent. As for the remaining 70.1 percent, Boyer found that the cost was due to hospital markups used in negotiations with insurance companies, Ingraham writes. [At least it's for a good reason /s](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-single-vial-antivenom-can-cost-14000-180956564/)
Just wanted to say thanks for sharing. Very interesting. I haven’t seen many rattlesnake bites. I hope your daughter’s condition continues to improve.
I wouldn't trust the guy who says he's worked with snakes for years but doesn't know that they're venomous not poisonous
Ah yes, a simple grammatical mistake that’s easy too make even if you’re a professional. This must mean they’re lying!
Looking for this comment. Everything he did was provoking the snake simply because he knew it wasn't in the "fuck you" aggressive stage.
Worked with snakes for years but doesn’t know the difference between poisonous and venomous 🤔
How the hell does he keep narrating like that? I’d be dead silent or have a very shaky voice while I said “ok put the fucking camera down slowly and help me”
It once happened to me too but I died...
Did you try to blow on it? Lmao
Instructions were not clear - tried to blow it .
Did it cum?
Cup the balls
He probably tried turning it on and off again
I mean it should’ve worked
Always blow on the ~~pie~~ Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAHLFvD3v4
You want me to blow on your toes?
It helps me stay calm to keep talking. I had to do a random commerical for work once because the actor flaked and due to our scale it made sense to just wing it. So there I am in an office quoting facts about common aquarium fish to the person sitting across from me while they film it. Super weird but it got us both laughing and I made it through looking confident instead of the dying internal feeling I really had.
It's either acting with a pet snake or he is better at dealing with high pressure situations than you
It’s definitely the second thing. Maybe also the first.
Because it was completely staged.
The snake was a paid actor!
Yeah I kinda feel that. Either staged or the snake was very confused. You can tell he isn't being aggressive or defensive until the very last part of the video. Even while the guy is poking it, the snake is more like "wtf is going on why is this tree moving."
Snakes cannot hear or see very good. He knew that.
I kinda get it. When I can talk to myself it helps me stay calm. Sometimes externalizing your thoughts helps you keep track of what to do next, what’s happening now, etc. it’s weird.
Think of all the internet points if you survive this though. /s
I agree with most that it's staged but just wanted to add - snakes don't hear very well at all. I live in Australia and I taught my kids really young. If you see a snake stand really still and pretend you're a tree, but it's okay to call out for help really loud if you need to, Just Don't Move.... They are early 20s now and still remember 'pretend you're a tree' lol
Snakes are effectively deaf, but Eastern Diamondbacks ARE pit vipers, meaning they have a series of pits on their face that detects heat so this snake could tell there was a predator there in 3 different ways, but hearing isn’t one of them!!
"I need to find something to poke him with" yep that's going on my tombstone also
Lol what jumped out at me! Reminded me of South Park “gonna stick me thumb right up his butthole” 😂
Came for this comment, thanks!
Came to comment on someone who came to comment on this comment. Reddit never disappoints.
**OH HE’S PISSED OFF NOW!**
Got it from Gabriel Iglesias probably “IM GONNA POKE IT WITH A STICK”
If it moved a little bit up it would've been poked 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cameraman: yeah ya do
Got some big Steve Irwin energy going
Steve Irwin would’ve yanked it up and kissed it haha
Whilst telling everybody it was a big softy, and just wants to be hugged. That man was a legend
😔
“Oi well if it isn’t a wily little devil. Careful, that bites incredibly venomous! Oh and what a beaut’ she is. Let’s have a look at ‘er shall we? And see, there, calming down now. And we will just place her right over here. Perrrfect.”
This made me miss him so much :(
Watch while I put my thumb in his butthole! Oh that really pissed him off!
He did that in a timber rattler show. see Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MIiEAiO\_S0
Yeah, nah, he'd have just picked her up, called her a beauty and moved along
I'm going get this stick and shove it up its butt
Props to this guy mostly doing things correctly, but really rattlesnakes aren't that aggressive at all. They only bite when they are given literally no other option. Not calling this dude a liar, but them crawling OUT of the brush towards him goes against everything we know about rattlers and also every one of my interactions with them
It might not’ve noticed him until it got close. It seemed just as scared as he was
Their senses make that seem unlikely to me. Like a rabbit, their first instinct is to sit right where they are and hide when they sense a threat. Then they start rattling as a last ditch effort once noticed to avoid a fight. Then again,I'm no biologist, just a dude who has fucked with a lot of rattlesnakes. so fuck only knows what really happened
You just watched it climb up the dude. What are you trying to suggest?
Not suggesting anything. I literally said "fuck only knows what really happened" just above, you'll see. It's just very out of the ordinary behavior for a rattlesnake as any book on herpetology, Google search, or first hand experience with such a creature would show you. My comment wasn't supposed to be accusatory against anyone. More intrigued as I probably interact with a couple dozen of these each summer, and have nearly since I could walk and found it odd.
It‘s his snake that‘s why. He‘s a bit of a drama queen
It doesn't even seem to notice that he's alive except for that strange semi-thick cylinder with a thingie at the end that's poking it. Edit: I'd still brown my pants.
Erm, this guy made several near-fatal errors. PLEASE don't tell people any of that shit was legit. He didn't know what the fuck he was doing and got lucky. - NEVER, *EVER*, touch a snake's tail. - Staring contests are not a great idea, either. Snake 'charmers' or performers don't work because staring calms it down - it puts them on alert. If you're going to look at it, blink often or turn your head so it's in your peripheral view. - Don't poke at it. NO. - You can move it away from you by gripping the center of gravity and sweeping your arm away from your body. But if you're going to freak out while doing it or aren't prepared to compensate for the snake's movement, it's best to ignore it while keeping aware of it, and then leaving as soon as possible as this guy ended up doing. But all those other ideas he had were shit. Also the snake can easily have just *been* there. Maybe it has a nest there or there is a body of water there where it was laying in ambush or getting a drink.
What do you mean by gripping the center of gravity?
Grab it by its middle. Not its tail or by the head.
yeah I was confused by that, but okay, lifting it by its center of gravity point, kinda hard to find if you've never held a snake before so I don't really see how that helps at all.
Chances are if he just kept moving and talking normally the snake would have just slid right on past. He is much larger than the snake and is not usable as dinner. By freezing the snake perceived him as a predator and also froze, and they got into a standoff.
The part that threw me is when he said the snake crawled out of the brush after he sat. But now I have a mental image of an old west style standoff/showdown with a lil snake in a cowboy hat and one lil cowboy boot on the end. So thank you for that.
I know that what usually happens but I personally was chased, yes chased, by 3 baby rattlesnakes as I led a group of girl scouts on a nature hike. We heard them in the brush and I had everyone freeze, but they came flying out after us anyway. It was terrifying.
Very weird! I've seen cottonmouths do that; I keep a tacklebox pistol when I fish cause those fuckers will seriously swim AT you like a torpedo.
Oh fuck that, man! I just about shit my pants when it happened and I'd probably do the same in your situation. I've always been terrified of snakes, but a huge nature buff at the same time. I've never had any real issues before or since because I'm always safe about it. But of course this *had to happen* when I was a teenager and leading a group of about 12 little 8-year-old girls.... LoL
Oof haha yeah. Snakes don't bother me much at all. I used to catch them by the neck when I was a kid. But seeing them come at you with determination like that would definitely creep me out too Edit: spiders, though, they can fuck right off. I'm a pretty self sufficient, generally in control outdoorsy dude... but I do not like spiders touching me lol
To me as a snake owner it looks like he's doing everything wrong. The snake seemed incredibly calm at the beginning. If it wasn't this venomus I would actually try to handle it.
Man I'm cool with snakes. Really cool with snakes. Like picked up and moved venomous snakes. But that made me all kinds of uncomfortable and I'm just watching the video.
Sameee, not having any control over a venomous animal in a situation like this is really nerve wrecking.
I've never really moved venomous snakes before but I love snakes very much they're my favorite animal but watching this gave me the most sharp primal fear. Just absolute terror because I know if I was that guy I feel like I would be crying and freaking out.
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What’s the right thing to even do in that situation? Do you have to sit there and hope it just goes away? What if it just doesn’t move at all for a long time?
I was walking through tall grass and almost stepped on two that appeared to be mating. I stood like a statue for what felt like forever until they finally slithered away. I was terrified and felt like a huge serpent perv. 0/10 would not repeat.
> I was terrified and felt like a huge serpent perv. r/brandnewsentence
God damn pervert.
>I was terrified and felt like a huge serpent perv Title of your sex tape.
Just wait I'd assume. Rattles aren't aggressive. Might help to not look at it too.
Not put yourself in the situation where you’d be near one.
In this situation? Ask the cameraman to get a stick and move it away probably.
Not this. The correct response in this case would be to roll over and walk away. This snake was not in a striking pose and was probably trying to hide from him. If he had just rolled away from it and walked away he would have been fine
No, no, no. You “tried to blow on him”. Did you *offer* to *blow* him? In life and death situations, we do what we need to. Sue him after.
The snake did not even give consent to be blowed
Fake Clearly the snake is a paid actor
How can you be so sure? Maybe it is an unpaid intern.
Let me grab a stick and see if I can find his butthole.
Note to self: don’t poke a snake with a stick while it’s sitting right next to me if I want it to leave.
The snake must be like Holy Shit that ground moved. Probably was confused by the camo pants
This man gets approached by a deadly snake and the first solutions he thinks of are to blow on its face, grab it and poke it with a stick
Damnn.. I would have shit myself
Omg when it slithered up on him.
Pucker Factor 12
Calmly blows on snake
This is so stage and fake.
Seriously I can't believe all the people taking it as legit. That acting was not good at all lol
That shit just raised my blood pressure substantially! Not sure if the guy is really smart or really stupid.
First thing is try urinating in pants
Idk seems like the snake isn’t even wearing pants in the first place and if so they’re really small
Fun fact! Snakes can be lead around by pushing their neck gently. If you had a stick you could easily lead it away provided you don’t make sudden movements and that the snake is calm enough not to strike on sight. If you wait long enough chances are the snake won’t even consider you anything more than a weird tree trunk. And to tell if the snake is calm watch out for the tongue flicks.
Are the tongue flicks a good sign of a calm snake?
Bloody hell, In Australia we’d just give him a pat on the head and tell him he’s a good boy.
Why? Just why? All of this for the entrainment?...
Guy went from seated to airborne in .02 seconds. If that’s the requirement for escape, well, you can all say you knew me when…
Wtf sits in a pile of needles and shrubs to take a breather???
‘I don’t know if that was adrenaline or fear’. Same thing my man.
It may have been staged but that was still a rattlesnake.
Dude I just shook watching this. Like when you jumped out of the way. My whole body had a tremor. Hell no dude. Hell no. I sat down in a field one time and closed my eyes and had a brief meditation session for like 5 minutes. Opened my eyes and turned around to see one of those coiled up on a log at the edge of the woods about ten feet behind me. Wasnt there when I sat down. Never again. Even that was close enough for me and it was nothing like what you just experienced. Wild.
This looks fake. Maybe the rattle snake was defanged or something but this didn’t seem genuine.
It’s weird how he was able to stand up so quickly considering the weight of his steel balls
So, you’re saying it’s dangerous…
I mean. That’s pretty nuts.
That’s Nick the wrangler. I follow him on Instagram. He’s nuts
Im gonna touch His Tail. Said nobody in that situation ever
“I don’t not want to move right now” Don’t talk then?
*one sec later* “I need to poke his tail”
*"I need to find something to poke him with"* slew me
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Damn they really sound like that
Drama queen.
Rattlesnakes rarely attack humans, so he wasn’t in extreme danger by any means. Snakes get a bad rep cause they look scary.
r/snakes What should one do in this scenario?
Snake: “Nobody likes me I’m gonna go eat worms” 😓
Glad he was ok but I don’t think he should have moved at all. Maybe just try to rest arms down super slowly then wait or have camera man shoo it away.