#1307 – Fang
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I remember as a kid being told to suck the venom out of a snake bite. The “best case” scenario was getting bitten on your hand or wrist where you could then instantly get as much venom out as you could. If the snake got you in a location where you couldn’t reach yourself, that’s when your hiking buddy would help you out. This of course lead to many jokes on the theme of where the bite happened and the identity of the 2nd person. Somehow the question never came up of what happens when you are by yourself.
Today’s Maximumble works it out.
Tags: snake, straws, venom
my solution is a shopvac easy to drag and easy to carry the battery pack to power it plus all the neighbors in the area hear that vacuum and think it is some weirdo cleaning up the dirt trail
(p.s i am totally kidding)
There are some areas that even a straw wouldn’t reach … unless you hooked several straws together. But, what if you don’t have a straw?
They used to make and sell snakebite kits. No, I’m not talking about a hip-flask of whiskey… Two nested heavy-duty suction cups that held a razorblade and a tourniquet between them – Tie off above the bite, open your flesh at the bite, pinch the suction cup, and apply to the wound.
In theory, this would maybe save our life. In reality…? Probably more dangerous than the actual venom.
Oh… And “Yuk.”
Better suck fast before you start to sparkle!
… because after you start sparkling, you have no choice but to suck!
These days, they don’t recommend sucking out the venom at all. You are more likely to hurt yourself worse than the bite itself did.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2002/08/02/snake_bites020802.html
Of course, the famous old punchline; “Well pardner, Doc says you’re gonna die!”
onexused wins the comments.