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TexasTowelie

(117,533 posts)
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 09:19 PM Sep 2019

South Carolina lawmaker lands in intensive care after venomous snake bite

COLUMBIA, SC -- A South Carolina lawmaker is being monitored in Lexington Medical Center’s intensive care unit after he was bitten by a copperhead snake Sunday night.

State Rep. Chris Wooten, R-Lexington, said he was wearing flip flops in his front yard, letting his dog out when he stepped on the venomous serpent. He killed the snake with a brick.

He told The State he is fine but has to be monitored to ensure the antivenin (colloquially known as anti-venom) works properly.

Wooten has been in the ICU since late Sunday night. He told The State he hopes to go home Tuesday.

Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article234920747.html

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emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
5. Is his front yard a swamp or something? He must be living on some spread. I would hope
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 09:31 PM
Sep 2019

copperheads don’t come up to people’s suburban yards. S.C. looks like beautiful country to me. I
wouldn't be able to cope with the idea of snakes, but then he probably knew better than to flip-flop.

woodsprite

(12,242 posts)
10. Well, they do in Delaware.
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 10:20 PM
Sep 2019

At the beginning of the season, our friend found what she thought were 5 grass snakes in her yard in Newark, DE, by her front steps. After taking a picture and having them identified by Co-operative Extension office, found out they were baby copperheads.

emmaverybo

(8,147 posts)
11. Well, beautiful country, Delaware, all these, just to me, lush and exotic paces outside where
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 10:30 PM
Sep 2019

I am, but that would do it for me, even if grass snakes. Amazing.

MontanaMama

(24,087 posts)
12. My sister in law lives in Charleston SC.
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 11:02 PM
Sep 2019

A copperhead bit her Great Dane and he died in her front yard....not swampy at all. Upscale suburban home...gated community.

RockRaven

(16,528 posts)
7. At least he wasn't handling it on purpose for religious reasons, or b/c he was drunkenly confident
Sat Sep 14, 2019, 09:45 PM
Sep 2019

The former is not so common but disconcertingly more common than it ought to be. The latter is super-common.

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