Hate Reading These.....

[chas*e]

Shreveport (Louisiana) Area News KTB
Man dies after being bitten by pet snake
posted: 12-22-2004

A Red River Parish man who kept caged rattlesnakes in
the back of his
business has died after being bitten by one as he was
feeding it.

B.O. "Buddy" Jones III had two timber rattlers in a
glass cage in the back
of his pawn shop in Coushatta. One had been his pet
for about nine years and
he had the other for about three years.

Jones was feeding the younger snake a rat shortly
after noon on Tuesday when
the snake bit him in the hand, Red River Sheriff
Johnny Ray Norman said. One
of the fangs hit a vein, Norman said.

Jones, 57, had trouble breathing and drove himself to
the hospital in
Coushatta. He was then transferred to Shreveport
hospital but died Tuesday
night.

Jones, an avid outdoorsman, kept several reptiles in
cages in the back of
his store and people often went back to see them.

"It was kind of a novelty with him," Norman said.

What happens to the snakes is up to Jones' children.

I HATE READING ABOUT THESE THINGS

[BWSmith]

Yah, i saw that earlier today.

"It was kind of a novelty with him," Norman said.
Of course they get the Sherrif's interpretation rather than someone who knew him or his modivations.

[Gregg M]

As much bad press as this causes for all of us, it is always a shame when someone dies as a result of a bite weather they were doing something stupid or not........

[Sowwywongnumba]

And we all know what's going to happen to the snake right?!

[coldblooded]

Purse? I figure if they MUST kill it, at least use it for something.

I hear rattlesnake tastes good... never had it though.

[chas*e]

Rattlesnake does taste good...had it in Mexico...didn't order it or kill the thing but was at a dinner/BBQ of a friend so "While in Rome live as a Roman""....had iguana too...both are great. like chicken sort of.