Important Safety Tip: Avoid Rattlesnake Selfies!
Just ask Alex Gomez, a 36-year-old Californian, who
spotted [a] four-foot rattler in a field by his family’s ranch on Cielito Drive, shortly before he made [a] potentially deadly mistake.
“I’m shocked that he would have that things around his neck,” Alex’s mother Deborah said. “It could’ve bit his neck, and that would have been it. That’s just being a fool.”
Alex’s nephew, Ronnie, was with him when the snake was discovered, and says the reptile gave plenty of warning.
“It was really thick and had ten rattles on it, it was rattling,” Ronnie said. “It was pretty mad.”
Upon being bitten, Gomez, who is a father a three, was experiencing excruciating pain as he was taken to a local hospital. His hand swelled up and his body started to tingle. His neighbor, Byron Bonilla, called 9-1-1 immediately.
While Gomez is being treated with anti-venom, his mother says he may lose his hand.
“His skin is already rotting away,” Deborah described. …
Gomez’ mother, meanwhile, says sharing his “embarrassing” story is the best way to teach her son a lesson she thought he already knew.
“I told him the news people had been calling, and he said ‘Mom, you better not’, and I said ‘I’m going to’. I’m going to teach him a real good lesson when he gets home. No mercy for him.”
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
12 responses to Important Safety Tip: Avoid Rattlesnake Selfies!
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whatthe46 August 27th, 2015 at 00:41
laughing.
katkelly57 August 27th, 2015 at 02:24
To Alex’s momma….age has nothing to do with being a stunad.
bpollen August 27th, 2015 at 02:41
And the Darwin Awards have a new nominee…
Roctuna August 27th, 2015 at 08:19
Honorable Mention probably. He survived, otherwise a winner for sure.
bpollen August 28th, 2015 at 02:53
There’s more than 3 months left in the year… he’s still got a chance!
rg9rts August 27th, 2015 at 05:11
On the brightness scale…..-6
Roctuna August 27th, 2015 at 08:19
-10 rattles
Warman1138 August 27th, 2015 at 06:38
Words are insufficient for this level of dumb.
Suzanne McFly August 27th, 2015 at 07:12
I am glad the Mom isn’t playing.
Tommie August 27th, 2015 at 09:00
Can’t fix stupid! Haha!
Mike August 27th, 2015 at 13:21
I’ve seen a rattlesnake bite, and it’s not pretty…obviously this guy hasn’t…until now…too bad he had to find out the hard way.
FatRat August 27th, 2015 at 14:28
How in the holy f’n hell can you not sprint in the opposite direction like a rocket when you hear the rattling!
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