Lplater
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Anyone heard on the news today of a man bitten by a snake in Melbourne when he put his hand into a dumpster? He is now being treated in hospital for the bite according to the news on JJJ.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/myer-cleaner-bitten-by-snake-in-cbd-20090612-c5iw.html
Is the article. The snake handler is skeptical, so am I.
The big question is how a Brown got to be in the CBD in the middle of Winter... and during a cold snap at that.After searching in the laneway for less than an hour, Tom 'The Snake Man' Vida said it was "impossible" the cleaner was bitten by snake.
"If the snake was here, I would have found it," he said.
"I've been doing this a long time - he got bitten by maybe a rat and panicked maybe thinking it was worse than it really was."
But advanced life support paramedic Heidi Taylor said there was no question a snake had bitten the man.
I know from personal experience that Marsh snakes (Hemiaspis signata) return "tiger"As Snakehandler said, the SVDK only indicates which is the appropriate antivenom to use for a particular bite, it does NOT indicate what snake a person was bitten by.
We had an example in the papers here a few years ago where a person was said to have been bitten by a Tiger Snake which of course are not found around here, but because the SVDK indicated Tiger Snake anitvenom should be used (if required) it was assumed she was bitten by one.
Only in cites, in the country they are still common RC, particularly in spring when last years young become independent. Also you rarely see crows or galahs ( the feathered variety) as RCyeah you see foxes all the time
whats amazing is that they have learned not to become road kill you never see road kill.
Have you heard of a dry-bite?If It was a brown hed have to have some venom in him.. Lies...
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