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Anybody familiar enough with rattlesnakes (or other venomous snakes) to answer this question: can you think of a way to set up a snakebite in an outdoor setting?
Do you mean a way to make a snakebite happen deliberately? Sure. Trap a snake somewhere (a nestingbox in the chicken coop for instance) and tell your victim to just slip their hand in, to check if there's any eggs. That would work. Or do something with frogs and water - snakes eat frogs and will happily hunt for them around water. You have to make a snake angry or startled enough to bite - but trapping a snake and then introducing a hand or a foot will usually accomplish that.Ha! I might not want to go near a garden or hay pile for a while after hearing those stories. Can you think of any way for someone to STAGE a snakebite? (Thriller writer here.) Though I might just go with it being an accident to make it more realistic. And thanks for your stories!
Anybody familiar enough with rattlesnakes (or other venomous snakes) to answer this question: can you think of a way to set up a snakebite in an outdoor setting?
Walk up on a pygmy rattler (no rattle) in the Everglades or in many back yards and you'll get bit. Climb a rocky wall or hill above a horse pasture in South Dakota and you'll get bit. Reach down to move a dead diamond back off the highway and find it's just sunning and you'll get bit. Be stupid and you'll get bit.
If you're setting this up as a trap, toss a rattlesnake in their car, lock it in their garage, create a pitfall trap over a rattlesnake den...
Jeff
Did I ever tell you guys about the time in, oh, 1964 it would have been - or 1966, somewhere around there, anyway - when my then ten year old brother-in-law flew off from Sydney to somewhere with his family - and took his snake wrapped up in his jacket because he didn't want to leave it at home?
He would have gotten away with it, too, except he was caught trying to chase it down underneath the seats in front of him.
Did I ever tell you guys about the time in, oh, 1964 it would have been - or 1966, somewhere around there, anyway - when my then ten year old brother-in-law flew off from Sydney to somewhere with his family - and took his snake wrapped up in his jacket because he didn't want to leave it at home?
He would have gotten away with it, too, except he was caught trying to chase it down underneath the seats in front of him.
Walk up on a pygmy rattler (no rattle) in the Everglades or in many back yards and you'll get bit. Climb a rocky wall or hill above a horse pasture in South Dakota and you'll get bit.
Reach down to move a dead diamond back off the highway and find it's just sunning and you'll get bit. Be stupid and you'll get bit.