Another one involving a rattler...once again, confirmed true.
Mortal Insult
1992 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
Rattler Got Your Tongue?
(1992, California) Snakes flick their forked tongues in the air to "smell" the world, collecting molecules and analyzing them by pressing thir tongue tips tips them into small olfactory pits. An inebriated twenty-year-old man, apparently unaware of this biological fact, took umbrage when a wild rattlesnake stuck out its tounge at him. Tit for tat! He held the rattler in front of his face and stuck his tongue out right back at it. The snake expressed its displeasure at this turn of events by biting the conveniently offered body part. The toxic venom swelled the man's face and throat, choking him to death.
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Submitted by: Charlie Bowman, Roger Hess, Bonnie Bates
Reference: San Francisco Chronicle
