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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 04:27 PM
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Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
An 87-year-old Tampa woman had had it with the motherloving snakes on her motherloving porch.

So when a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to Esther Orring's door and bit her on the hand, she got even, strangling the venomous little serpent with her bare hands.

"She's a tough lady," Orring's daughter, Maria Pellicone, told WFLA. "She's a very strong person, so she will be a survivor."

Orring has been hospitalized since the Monday incident, after she was administered several vials of antivenin.

But the well-gripped granny is expected to make a full recovery, and Pellicone says she'll have the dead snake framed for her.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Granny-87-Kills-Venomous-Rattler-With-Bare-Hands-52963742.html

I didn't know Glen Beck was in Tampa.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 04:29 PM
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1. She needs to move to Colorado and kick some bear ass
:D
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 04:31 PM
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2. Damn that's badass. nt
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:04 PM
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4. I guess she figured since the sucker already bit her
she didn't have much to lose.

Personally, I'd have grabbed the garden hoe. It's the best way to go around here.
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 04:39 PM
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3. Snakes are actually very delicate and pgymy rattlesnakes
are tiny pink ones.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:06 PM
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5. Does she have a film offer from Quentin Tarantino yet?
Damn...
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:10 PM
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6. My granny would've bitten off the head and eaten it raw.
She made it out of the Russian purges by eating bugs and once a raw chicken, so I know it would've been no problem for her.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:17 PM
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7. you go girl
someone had to say it.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:21 PM
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8. too bad she didn't have a gun and had to risk her life doing this.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:27 PM
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10. Guns ruin the skin.
A very aggressive Sidewinder in Arizona learned the hard way not to mess with someone holding a loaded AR-15.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:33 PM
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11. not if you're an old time granny with cataracts and an excellent shot
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 05:37 AM
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16. I think I'm in love.... n/t
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:24 PM
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9. I've found a stick works better.
I usually leave snakes alone because they eat rodents. One huge Copperhead that took exception to me once met that fate. The tanned skin was over 4 feet long even with shrinkage and waste.
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:37 PM
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12. I'd like to know about her health care coverage
Since that is the timely topic, I'm surprised the article doesn't mention how her health care was covered.
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 06:04 PM
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13. my grandmother killed a rat with a hammer once.
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 06:16 PM
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14. Ha
Glen Beck = the snake.. nice one.. :)
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slampoet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 06:16 PM
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15. Sounds like she was trying to kill it and got bit in the process. Why would her hand been in range?

I have not see a rattler that can climb up a door, and the article says it slithered up TO her door.
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