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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
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This part cracks me up.
On July 21, 2002, just after my 13th birthday, I was bitten by a Northern Pacific rattlesnake (the snake was originally identified as a Western Diamondback rattlesnake, but that species is not found near Yosemite). I was located on a trail in a hiking area near Yosemite National Park, California. The bite occurred when I was sitting on a small boulder at a distance of 4.5 miles from the trailhead with my cabin group at camp. I had my arms dangling at my side, and a 5 foot long rattlesnake bit me in the middle of my left palm.
I read an article about snake bites a while back, and it said that a majority of snake bites on women are on their feet, ankles, and legs where they just walked in the wrong place. In contrast, a majority of snake bites on men are on their hands and arms, because men as a group are stupid and try to pick up snakes or otherwise mess with them.
So how likely is it that a 13 year-old boy was sitting on a boulder with his arms dangling, and a snake bit him on the palm? Sit down and look where your palms fall. Unless he literally sat on the snake, there's almost no way a snake is going to bite the middle of his palm while he's innocently sitting there. He was trying to go all Crocodile Dundee and got bit trying to mess with the snake.
I call for the jury to declare the snake innocent. The snake only acted in self defense.