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(a news item from the L.A. Times)
We climb in the desert and rattlesnakes live in the desert. Biting is how a rattlesnake makes its living and its hard to beat one at its game. DPSers can learn from Arlie Waldron's experience in teaching his son how to handle rattlers. Waldron had a rattler in his hand but got carried away in his lesson, failing to keep a firm grip on his subject. The snake, an unwilling participant in the education process, lunged and bit Waldron on the arm. "A tooth for a tooth" (or is it a fang?) the infuriated Waldron decided and he lunged back, intending to bite the snake's head off. The rattler lunged simulatneously, with considerably more speed and skill, and bit Waldron six more times including one in the tongue before Waldron managed to get a firm grip with his teeth and separate the snake's head from what may loosely be described as its neck. The victor was rushed to a hospital where his head and neck "swelled up like a balloon". Waldron later recovered but, as far as snake-biting is concerned, he said that was his last asp. -- Ron Jones