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Found this on darwinawards.com...it was verified true by darwin, meaning that there was documentation to prove that this story isn't false.

I'm A Man, I Can Handle It
1997 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
(November 1997, Pennsylvania) Wayne Roth, 38, of Pittston, was bitten by a cobra belonging to his friend, Roger Croteau, after playfully reaching into the tank and picking up the snake. Wayne subsequently refused to go to a hospital, telling Roger, "I'm a man, I can handle it."

Falser words have seldom been spoken. Instead of a hospital, Wayne reported to a bar. He had three drinks, and enjoyed bragging that he had just been bitten by a cobra. Cobra venom is a slow-acting central nervous system toxin. He died within a few hours, in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania.

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Submitted by Linda Heckelman-Bodo,
Owen Neale

What kind of "friend", let alone responsible hot keeper, would let his idiot of a companion reach into his cobra's cage? I personally would never let a person of such little IQ enter a hot room, but if for the sake of argument, if one did, and was bitten, i would knock the [bleep]er out and take him to the hospital if i had to. This unfortunate fool's "friend" shouldn't be keeping hots if this is what happens...