Little Ozzie!

Uh Oh Eve, she is rebelling, she didn't wanna eat the damn apple she wanted to serpent itself.......

That kid is forking bad ass.....

/I see WWE in his future.

Kids chew on weird things when they're teething.

FTA: They immediately checked the child for any bite marks but found none..."we were very lucky because these snakes release less venom in the winter."

If there were no bite marks, what the hell difference does it make how venomous it was.

Next up on Maury: Rock star Gene Simmons...DNA test results

/ disapproves

"One bite from this should be enough......."
"You're right...one bite's enough for anyone...that's shocking!"
"It's supposed to bite you....."

The Life Of Brian: batcookie: Poor snake :-(

This story sucks, Subby. I like snakes and hate kids, so I think this worked out terribly.

This one was the pet for a preschool.... WAS...

Um, no. That's in Indonesia and it ate a goat, not a child.

Some snake eaters are just born to the USMC.

/honey badger is impressed

Wait.

"Doctors at the hospital told us the snake was really poisonous but that we were very lucky because they release less venom in the winter,"

But then....

"Dr Boaz Shacham, an expert on amphibians and reptiles, told AFP that from looking at images of the smashed-up serpent online, it appeared to be a coin-marked snake (hemorrhois nummifer), a non-venomous species which resembles a viper. "

WTF am I reading?

s/snake/puppy/

Does that change your opinion on the story any?

As far as the supposed authority of doctors on snake venom:

Many years ago, I caught a garter snake around an old barn (it was on a paintball field where I was playing). When I fell down some decaying stairs in said barn, the snake got partly loose and began gnawing on my right thumb, and continued to gnaw while I was trying to find something to put it in (if I'd stopped the gnawing, I would have lost the snake). Well, a nurse friend persuaded me to stop by the ER for a tetanus booster, due to the whole barn situation. So, the next day I did. I should have left the whole snake situation out of it and just told them I'd gotten cut. Over a period of an hour I explained to the receptionist, two nurses, and a doctor, or was it two doctors, that this had happened yesterday, I knew exactly what species of snake it was, it was now living at my house in a cage, and all I needed was a tetanus booster because my hand had been covered with random crud in an old cow barn. The doctor who wanted to "see the fang marks" made me want to scream ... if the freaking snake had been venomous, would I have wandered in the next day to get a tetanus shot? Seriously?

So we've got the woman who says the doctors told her the snake was highly venomous. This requires a) that she's reporting that accurately, and b) so are said doctors. My own experience leads me to believe that even if a) is true, b) is likely to be a hopeless cause. And then we have the herpetologist saying that it's a juvenile specimen of a totally harmless species. Which, given that the kid picked it up and started gnawing on it, seems a lot closer to reality.

Anyway ... poor lil' snake.

Yeah, a defenseless creature dies a slow, torturous death in the wet gaping maw of a toddler, and somehow it is "spiffy." Geez.

/yeah, I know, welcome to Fark

Honey Jew don't give a shiat. He just takes what he wants.

Sounds like something from Kim Jung Un's fake biography. "At 13 months he could wrassle and defeat pios'nus snakes!"

What a way to go. Poor snake.

/Glad the toddler is okay.

My kid did the same thing with a big-ass centipede at about that same age.

I damned near broke my neck jumping out of the batch when my wife started screaming.

I'm told that when I was very young I came walking up to my Mom holding a rattlesnake up in the air by its tail, and it never even made a hostile move at me. It was apparently VERY hostile after my Mom jumped up screaming and started hitting it with a garden hoe.

Pert: "One bite from this should be enough......."
"You're right...one bite's enough for anyone...that's shocking!"
"It's supposed to bite you....."

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Didn't expect the picture from "Carry on Cleo", but always happy to see Amanda Barrie, particularly dressed like that.
Oh puer, oh puer, oh puer.